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Generating high-quality and photorealistic 3D assets remains a longstanding challenge in 3D vision and computer graphics. Although state-of-the-art generative models, such as diffusion models, have made significant progress in 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Qingming Liu , Zhen Liu , Dinghuai Zhang , Kui Jia

This tutorial provides an in-depth guide on inference-time guidance and alignment methods for optimizing downstream reward functions in diffusion models. While diffusion models are renowned for their generative modeling capabilities,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Masatoshi Uehara , Yulai Zhao , Chenyu Wang , Xiner Li , Aviv Regev , Sergey Levine , Tommaso Biancalani

Reinforcement Learning from human feedback (RLHF) has been shown a promising direction for aligning generative models with human intent and has also been explored in recent works for alignment of diffusion generative models. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Hanyang Zhao , Haoxian Chen , Ji Zhang , David D. Yao , Wenpin Tang

Reward finetuning has emerged as a promising approach to aligning foundation models with downstream objectives. Remarkable success has been achieved in the language domain by using reinforcement learning (RL) to maximize rewards that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Fei Deng , Qifei Wang , Wei Wei , Matthias Grundmann , Tingbo Hou

The latest developments in Face Restoration have yielded significant advancements in visual quality through the utilization of diverse diffusion priors. Nevertheless, the uncertainty of face identity introduced by identity-obscure inputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yushun Fang , Lu Liu , Xiang Gao , Qiang Hu , Ning Cao , Jianghe Cui , Gang Chen , Xiaoyun Zhang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable results in image generation, and have similarly been used to learn high-performing policies in sequential decision-making tasks. Decision-making diffusion models can be trained on lower-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Felipe Nuti , Tim Franzmeyer , João F. Henriques

To date, distributional reinforcement learning (distributional RL) methods have exclusively focused on the discounted setting, where an agent aims to optimize a discounted sum of rewards over time. In this work, we extend distributional RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Juan Sebastian Rojas , Chi-Guhn Lee

Diffusion models have been successfully applied in areas such as image, video, and audio generation. Recent works show their promise for sequential decision-making and dexterous manipulation, leveraging their ability to model complex action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Maria Makarova , Qian Liu , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Diffusion models excel at generating images conditioned on text prompts, but the resulting images often do not satisfy user-specific criteria measured by scalar rewards such as Aesthetic Scores. This alignment typically requires…

Reasoning-based image quality assessment (IQA) models trained through reinforcement learning (RL) exhibit exceptional generalization, yet the underlying mechanisms and critical factors driving this capability remain underexplored in current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Shijie Zhao , Xuanyu Zhang , Weiqi Li , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Tianfan Xue , Jian Zhang

Diffusion models generate highly realistic images but often struggle with precise text-image alignment. While recent post-training methods improve alignment using external rewards or human preference signals, their performance heavily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jaa-Yeon Lee , Yeobin Hong , Taesung Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

Although diffusion-based real-world image restoration (Real-IR) has achieved remarkable progress, efficiently leveraging ultra-large-scale pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) models and fully exploiting their potential remain significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Purui Bai , Junxian Duan , Pin Wang , Jinhua Hao , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou , Huaibo Huang

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard approach for post-training large language models and, more recently, for improving image generation models, which uses reward functions to enhance generation quality and human preference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yunqi Hong , Kuei-Chun Kao , Hengguang Zhou , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved remarkable success by leveraging large pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models as priors. However, these methods still face two challenges: the requirement for dozens of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Aiping Zhang , Zongsheng Yue , Renjing Pei , Wenqi Ren , Xiaochun Cao

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art generative performance but are fundamentally bottlenecked by their slow, iterative sampling process. While diffusion distillation techniques enable high-fidelity, few-step generation, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Linqian Fan , Peiqin Sun , Tiancheng Wen , Shun Lu , Chengru Song

While one commonly trains large diffusion models by collecting datasets on target downstream tasks, it is often desired to align and finetune pretrained diffusion models with some reward functions that are either designed by experts or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhen Liu , Tim Z. Xiao , Weiyang Liu , Yoshua Bengio , Dinghuai Zhang

Diffusion model-based image restoration (IR) aims to use diffusion models to recover high-quality (HQ) images from degraded images, achieving promising performance. Due to the inherent property of diffusion models, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Jiezhang Cao , Yue Shi , Kai Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

In this paper, we make the first attempt to align diffusion models for image inpainting with human aesthetic standards via a reinforcement learning framework, significantly improving the quality and visual appeal of inpainted images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kendong Liu , Zhiyu Zhu , Chuanhao Li , Hui Liu , Huanqiang Zeng , Junhui Hou

Powered by multimodal text-to-image priors, diffusion-based super-resolution excels at synthesizing intricate details; however, models trained on synthetic low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) image pairs often degrade when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zihao Fan , Xin Lu , Yidi Liu , Jie Huang , Dong Li , Xueyang Fu , Baocai Yin

Image restoration is a long-standing problem in low-level computer vision with many interesting applications. We describe a flexible learning framework based on the concept of nonlinear reaction diffusion models for various image…

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