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Visual counterfactual explanations aim to reveal the minimal semantic modifications that can alter a model's prediction, providing causal and interpretable insights into deep neural networks. However, existing diffusion-based counterfactual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Changlu Guo , Anders Nymark Christensen , Anders Bjorholm Dahl , Morten Rieger Hannemose

Recent advances in generative AI have significantly enhanced image and video editing, particularly in the context of text prompt control. State-of-the-art approaches predominantly rely on diffusion models to accomplish these tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Haoyu Ma , Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam , Bichen Wu , Zhipeng Fan , Yuchao Gu , Wenliang Zhao , Lior Shapira , Xiaohui Xie

We present a novel framework for exemplar based image translation. Recent advanced methods for this task mainly focus on establishing cross-domain semantic correspondence, which sequentially dominates image generation in the manner of local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Chang Jiang , Fei Gao , Biao Ma , Yuhao Lin , Nannan Wang , Gang Xu

Recent advances in diffusion models (DMs) have achieved exceptional visual quality in image editing tasks. However, the global denoising dynamics of DMs inherently conflate local editing targets with the full-image context, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Wei Chow , Linfeng Li , Lingdong Kong , Zefeng Li , Qi Xu , Hang Song , Tian Ye , Xian Wang , Jinbin Bai , Shilin Xu , Xiangtai Li , Junting Pan , Shaoteng Liu , Ran Zhou , Tianshu Yang , Songhua Liu

Masked diffusion models (MDM) are powerful generative models for discrete data that generate samples by progressively unmasking tokens in a sequence. Each token can take one of two states: masked or unmasked. We observe that token sequences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Chen-Hao Chao , Wei-Fang Sun , Hanwen Liang , Chun-Yi Lee , Rahul G. Krishnan

Transformers and masked language modeling are quickly being adopted and explored in computer vision as vision transformers and masked image modeling (MIM). In this work, we argue that image token masking differs from token masking in text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Bill Psomas , Yannis Avrithis , Andrei Bursuc , Konstantinos Karantzalos , Nikos Komodakis

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have been shown to generate high-quality images without the need for delicate adversarial training. However, the current sampling process in DPMs is prone to violent shaking. In this paper, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Xiyu Wang , Anh-Dung Dinh , Daochang Liu , Chang Xu

Masked autoencoders have become popular training paradigms for self-supervised visual representation learning. These models randomly mask a portion of the input and reconstruct the masked portion according to the target representations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xingbin Liu , Jinghao Zhou , Tao Kong , Xianming Lin , Rongrong Ji

We show how bidirectional transformers trained for masked token prediction can be applied to neural image compression to achieve state-of-the-art results. Such models were previously used for image generation by progressivly sampling groups…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Fabian Mentzer , Eirikur Agustsson , Michael Tschannen

We present a mechanism to steer the sampling diversity of denoising diffusion and flow matching models, allowing users to sample from a sharper or broader distribution than the training distribution. We build on the observation that these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yanbo Xu , Yu Wu , Sungjae Park , Zhizhuo Zhou , Shubham Tulsiani

Recently, diffusion models have been used to solve various inverse problems in an unsupervised manner with appropriate modifications to the sampling process. However, the current solvers, which recursively apply a reverse diffusion step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hyungjin Chung , Byeongsu Sim , Dohoon Ryu , Jong Chul Ye

Part of the success of diffusion models stems from their ability to perform iterative refinement, i.e., repeatedly correcting outputs during generation. However, modern masked discrete diffusion lacks this capability: when a token is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Guanghan Wang , Yair Schiff , Subham Sekhar Sahoo , Volodymyr Kuleshov

Collective insights from a group of experts have always proven to outperform an individual's best diagnostic for clinical tasks. For the task of medical image segmentation, existing research on AI-based alternatives focuses more on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Aimon Rahman , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M Patel

Recent advancements in diffusion models have showcased their impressive capacity to generate visually striking images. Nevertheless, ensuring a close match between the generated image and the given prompt remains a persistent challenge. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yupeng Zhou , Daquan Zhou , Zuo-Liang Zhu , Yaxing Wang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Recent conditional image generation methods produce images of remarkable diversity, fidelity and realism. However, the majority of these methods allow conditioning only on labels or text prompts, which limits their level of control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Dina Bashkirova , Jose Lezama , Kihyuk Sohn , Kate Saenko , Irfan Essa

Semantic segmentation is essential in computer vision for various applications, yet traditional approaches face significant challenges, including the high cost of annotation and extensive training for supervised learning. Additionally, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yasufumi Kawano , Yoshimitsu Aoki

While originally designed for image generation, diffusion models have recently shown to provide excellent pretrained feature representations for semantic segmentation. Intrigued by this result, we set out to explore how well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Rui Gong , Martin Danelljan , Han Sun , Julio Delgado Mangas , Luc Van Gool

Diffusion models offer stable training and state-of-the-art performance for deep generative modeling tasks. Here, we consider their use in the context of multivariate subsurface modeling and probabilistic inversion. We first demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Roberto Miele , Niklas Linde

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in generating high-quality samples. Existing diffusion-based image restoration algorithms exploit pre-trained diffusion models to leverage data priors, yet they still preserve elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Hongjie Wu , Linchao He , Mingqin Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Kunming Luo , Mengting Luo , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Hu Chen , Jiancheng Lv

Generative models such as diffusion models, excel at capturing high-dimensional distributions with diverse input modalities, e.g. robot trajectories, but are less effective at multi-step constraint reasoning. Task and Motion Planning (TAMP)…