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This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm with a new goal-sequence domination scheme for better decision support in multi-objective optimization. The approach allows the inclusion of advanced hard/soft priority and constraint…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 E. F. Khor , T. H. Lee , R. Sathikannan , K. C. Tan

Calibration is a vital step in the development of rigorous digital models of diverse physical and chemical processes, yet one which is highly time- and labour-intensive. In this paper, we introduce a novel tool, Autonomous Calibration and…

Text-driven person image generation is an emerging and challenging task in cross-modality image generation. Controllable person image generation promotes a wide range of applications such as digital human interaction and virtual try-on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Kaiduo Zhang , Muyi Sun , Jianxin Sun , Binghao Zhao , Kunbo Zhang , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan

We introduce Posterior Distillation Sampling (PDS), a novel optimization method for parametric image editing based on diffusion models. Existing optimization-based methods, which leverage the powerful 2D prior of diffusion models to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Juil Koo , Chanho Park , Minhyuk Sung

Diffusion-based image generation models excel at producing high-quality synthetic content, but suffer from slow and computationally expensive inference. Prior work has attempted to mitigate this by caching and reusing features within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Anirud Aggarwal , Abhinav Shrivastava , Matthew Gwilliam

Test-time adaptation (TTA) addresses the unforeseen distribution shifts occurring during test time. In TTA, performance, memory consumption, and time consumption are crucial considerations. A recent diffusion-based TTA approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yeongtak Oh , Jonghyun Lee , Jooyoung Choi , Dahuin Jung , Uiwon Hwang , Sungroh Yoon

Benefiting from prompt tuning, recent years have witnessed the promising performance of pre-trained vision-language models, e.g., CLIP, on versatile downstream tasks. In this paper, we focus on a particular setting of learning adaptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Chun-Mei Feng , Kai Yu , Yong Liu , Salman Khan , Wangmeng Zuo

Recent advances in diffusion models have driven remarkable progress in image generation. However, the generation process remains computationally intensive, and users often need to iteratively refine prompts to achieve the desired results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yi Wei , Shunpu Tang , Liang Zhao , Qiangian Yang

Diffusion models have shown unprecedented success in the task of text-to-image generation. While these models are capable of generating high-quality and realistic images, the complexity of sequential denoising has raised societal concerns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Qinchan Li , Kenneth Chen , Changyue Su , Qi Sun

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) are a dominant backbone for high-fidelity text-to-image generation due to strong scalability and alignment at high resolutions. However, quadratic self-attention over dense spatial tokens leads to high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Xuanhua Yin , Chuanzhi Xu , Haoxian Zhou , Boyu Wei , Weidong Cai

Data-efficient image classification is a challenging task that aims to solve image classification using small training data. Neural network-based deep learning methods are effective for image classification, but they typically require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Ying Bi , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

One of the most challenging types of ill-posedness in global optimization is the presence of insensitivity regions in design parameter space, so the identification of their shape will be crucial, if ill-posedness is irrecoverable. Such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Jakub Sawicki , Maciej Smołka , Marcin Łoś , Robert Schaefer

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) are a recent family of generative models that achieve state-of-the-art results. In order to obtain class-conditional generation, it was suggested to guide the diffusion process by gradients…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Bahjat Kawar , Roy Ganz , Michael Elad

Water distribution system design is a challenging optimisation problem with a high number of search dimensions and constraints. In this way, Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) have been widely applied to optimise WDS to minimise cost subject…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Mehdi Neshat , Bradley Alexander , Angus Simpson

We propose a diffusion-based framework for prompt optimization that leverages Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) to iteratively refine system prompts through masked denoising. By conditioning on interaction traces, including user queries,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Shiyu Wang , Haolin Chen , Liangwei Yang , Jielin Qiu , Rithesh Murthy , Ming Zhu , Zixiang Chen , Silvio Savarese , Caiming Xiong , Shelby Heinecke , Huan Wang

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) offer a promising generative approach for combinatorial optimization, yet they often lack the robust exploration capabilities of traditional metaheuristics like evolutionary algorithms (EAs). We propose a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Joan Salvà Soler , Günther R. Raidl

Optimizing high-dimensional and complex black-box functions is crucial in numerous scientific applications. While Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful method for sample-efficient optimization, it struggles with the curse of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Taeyoung Yun , Kiyoung Om , Jaewoo Lee , Sujin Yun , Jinkyoo Park

Designing optimal prompts and reasoning processes for large language models (LLMs) on domain-specific tasks is both necessary and challenging in real-world applications. Determining how to integrate domain knowledge, enhance reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yang Zhao , Pu Wang , Hao Frank Yang

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong capabilities in generating high-fidelity 3D human poses, yet their iterative nature and multi-hypothesis requirements incur substantial computational cost. In this paper, we propose an Efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuquan Bi , Hongsong Wang , Xinli Shi , Zhipeng Gui , Jie Gui , Yuan Yan Tang

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