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Implicit neural representation (INR) has become the standard approach for arbitrary-scale image super-resolution (ASSR). To date, no empirical study has systematically examined the effectiveness of existing methods, nor investigated the…

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Radiography Report Generation (RRG) has gained significant attention in medical image analysis as a promising tool for alleviating the growing workload of radiologists. However, despite numerous advancements, existing methods have yet to…

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Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) focuses on recovering high-quality images from low-resolution inputs that suffer from complex degradations like noise, blur, and compression. Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have shown great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Linwei Dong , Qingnan Fan , Yuhang Yu , Qi Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Yawei Luo , Changqing Zou

Recent methods exploit the powerful text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models for real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) and achieve impressive results compared to previous models. However, we observe two kinds of inconsistencies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Junhao Gu , Peng-Tao Jiang , Hao Zhang , Mi Zhou , Jinwei Chen , Wenming Yang , Bo Li

Recent works have demonstrated that using reinforcement learning (RL) with multiple quality rewards can improve the quality of generated images in text-to-image (T2I) generation. However, manually adjusting reward weights poses challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Seung Hyun Lee , Yinxiao Li , Junjie Ke , Innfarn Yoo , Han Zhang , Jiahui Yu , Qifei Wang , Fei Deng , Glenn Entis , Junfeng He , Gang Li , Sangpil Kim , Irfan Essa , Feng Yang

Diffusion models have recently shown promising results for video super-resolution (VSR). However, directly adapting generative diffusion models to VSR can result in redundancy, since low-quality videos already preserve substantial content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jinpei Guo , Yifei Ji , Shengwei Wang , Zheng Chen , Yufei Wang , Sizhuo Ma , Yong Guo , Baiang Li , Jusheng Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Jian Wang

Preference modeling techniques, such as direct preference optimization (DPO), has shown effective in enhancing the generalization abilities of large language model (LLM). However, in tasks involving video instruction-following, providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Ruohong Zhang , Liangke Gui , Zhiqing Sun , Yihao Feng , Keyang Xu , Yuanhan Zhang , Di Fu , Chunyuan Li , Alexander Hauptmann , Yonatan Bisk , Yiming Yang

Diffusion-based models have achieved notable empirical successes in reinforcement learning (RL) due to their expressiveness in modeling complex distributions. Despite existing methods being promising, the key challenge of extending existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Dmitry Shribak , Chen-Xiao Gao , Yitong Li , Chenjun Xiao , Bo Dai

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a predominant alignment method for diffusion models, facilitating off-policy training without explicit reward modeling. However, its reliance on large-scale, high-quality human preference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Khiem Pham , Quang Nguyen , Tung Nguyen , Jingsen Zhu , Michele Santacatterina , Dimitris Metaxas , Ramin Zabih

Image super-resolution (SR) has attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications. However, current SR methods generally suffer from over-smoothing and artifacts, and most work only with fixed magnifications. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Sicheng Gao , Xuhui Liu , Bohan Zeng , Sheng Xu , Yanjing Li , Xiaoyan Luo , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiantong Zhen , Baochang Zhang

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) diffusion model fine-tuning leverage reinforcement learning (RL) to align generated images with learnable reward functions. The existing approaches reformulate denoising as a Markov decision process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xinyao Liao , Wei Wei , Xiaoye Qu , Yu Cheng

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models, when fine-tuned on a few personal images, can generate visuals with a high degree of consistency. However, such fine-tuned models are not robust; they often fail to compose with concepts of pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Kyungmin Lee , Sangkyung Kwak , Kihyuk Sohn , Jinwoo Shin

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has been popular for aligning text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models with human preferences. As a mainstream branch of RLHF, Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) offers a computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jiaming Hu , Jiamu Bai , Haoyu Wang , Debarghya Mukherjee , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has been demonstrated to be highly effective in mitigating hallucinations in Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) by aligning their outputs more closely with human preferences. Despite the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jihao Gu , Yingyao Wang , Meng Cao , Pi Bu , Jun Song , Yancheng He , Shilong Li , Bo Zheng

Diffusion models have emerged as a dominant paradigm for generative modeling across a wide range of domains, including prompt-conditional generation. The vast majority of samplers, however, rely on forward discretization of the reverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhenghan Fang , Jian Zheng , Qiaozi Gao , Xiaofeng Gao , Jeremias Sulam

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have been recently utilized to deal with various blind image restoration (IR) tasks, where they have demonstrated outstanding performance in terms of perceptual quality. However, the task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Magauiya Zhussip , Iaroslav Koshelev , Stamatis Lefkimmiatis

Direct Preference Optimisation (DPO) has emerged as a powerful method for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences, offering a stable and efficient alternative to approaches that use Reinforcement learning via Human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Sarvesh Shashidhar , Ritik , Nachiketa Patil , Suraj Racha , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Recent advancements in Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) have significantly enhanced the alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences, owing to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, existing methods typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Shilong Li , Yancheng He , Hui Huang , Xingyuan Bu , Jiaheng Liu , Hangyu Guo , Weixun Wang , Jihao Gu , Wenbo Su , Bo Zheng

Owe to the powerful generative priors, the pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have become increasingly popular in solving the real-world image super-resolution problem. However, as a consequence of the heavy quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Rongyuan Wu , Tao Yang , Lingchen Sun , Zhengqiang Zhang , Shuai Li , Lei Zhang

Arbitrary-scale super-resolution (ASSR) overcomes the limitation of traditional super-resolution (SR) methods that operate only at fixed scales (e.g., 4x), enabling a single model to handle arbitrary magnification. Most existing ASSR…

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