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Recent breakthroughs in text-to-image diffusion models have significantly advanced the generation of high-fidelity, photo-realistic images from textual descriptions. Yet, these models often struggle with interpreting spatial arrangements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jiaqi Liu , Tao Huang , Chang Xu

Recent text-to-image generation favors various forms of spatial conditions, e.g., masks, bounding boxes, and key points. However, the majority of the prior art requires form-specific annotations to fine-tune the original model, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Z. Zhang , B. Liu , J. Bao , L. Chen , S. Zhu , J. Yu

Instead of performing text-conditioned denoising in the image domain, latent diffusion models (LDMs) operate in latent space of a variational autoencoder (VAE), enabling more efficient processing at reduced computational costs. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jason Becker , Chris Wendler , Peter Baylies , Robert West , Christian Wressnegger

The quadratic time and memory complexity of the attention mechanism in modern Transformer based video generators makes end-to-end training for ultra high resolution videos prohibitively expensive. Motivated by this limitation, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yunfeng Wu , Jiayi Song , Zhenxiong Tan , Zihao He , Songhua Liu

The diffusion-based generative models have achieved remarkable success in text-based image generation. However, since it contains enormous randomness in generation progress, it is still challenging to apply such models for real-world visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Chenyang Qi , Xiaodong Cun , Yong Zhang , Chenyang Lei , Xintao Wang , Ying Shan , Qifeng Chen

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) have achieved remarkable success in a variety of image tasks, yet achieving fine-grained, disentangled control over global structures versus fine details remains challenging. This paper explores…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chao Huang , Susan Liang , Yunlong Tang , Jing Bi , Li Ma , Yapeng Tian , Chenliang Xu

Aligning diffusion model outputs with downstream objectives is essential for improving task-specific performance. Broadly, inference-time training-free approaches for aligning diffusion models can be categorized into two main strategies:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Maurya Goyal , Anuj Singh , Hadi Jamali-Rad

Disentangled representation learning strives to extract the intrinsic factors within observed data. Factorizing these representations in an unsupervised manner is notably challenging and usually requires tailored loss functions or specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Tao Yang , Cuiling Lan , Yan Lu , Nanning zheng

In-context diffusion models allow users to modify images with remarkable ease and realism. However, the same power raises serious privacy concerns: personal images can be easily manipulated for identity impersonation, misinformation, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Linghui Shen , Mingyue Cui , Xingyi Yang

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text-to-image and text-to-video generation, opening up possibilities for video editing based on textual input. However, the computational cost associated with sequential sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Youyuan Zhang , Xuan Ju , James J. Clark

We present a novel, training-free approach for textual editing of real images using diffusion models. Unlike prior methods that rely on computationally expensive finetuning, our approach leverages LAtent SPatial Alignment (LASPA) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yazeed Alharbi , Peter Wonka

Image composition targets at synthesizing a realistic composite image from a pair of foreground and background images. Recently, generative composition methods are built on large pretrained diffusion models to generate composite images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Bo Zhang , Yuxuan Duan , Jun Lan , Yan Hong , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang , Li Niu

We present Readout Guidance, a method for controlling text-to-image diffusion models with learned signals. Readout Guidance uses readout heads, lightweight networks trained to extract signals from the features of a pre-trained, frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Grace Luo , Trevor Darrell , Oliver Wang , Dan B Goldman , Aleksander Holynski

Video diffusion models (DMs) have enabled high-quality video synthesis. However, their computation costs scale quadratically with sequence length because self-attention has quadratic complexity. While linear attention lowers the cost, fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yushi Huang , Xingtong Ge , Ruihao Gong , Chengtao Lv , Jun Zhang

Latent Diffusion models (LDMs) have achieved remarkable results in synthesizing high-resolution images. However, the iterative sampling process is computationally intensive and leads to slow generation. Inspired by Consistency Models (song…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Simian Luo , Yiqin Tan , Longbo Huang , Jian Li , Hang Zhao

Controlling memorization in diffusion models is critical for applications that require generated data to closely match the training distribution. Existing approaches mainly focus on data centric or model centric modifications, treating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Thuy Phuong Vu , Mai Viet Hoang Do , Minhhuy Le , Dinh-Cuong Hoang , Phan Xuan Tan

Layout-to-Image generation aims to create complex scenes with precise control over the placement and arrangement of subjects. Existing works have demonstrated that pre-trained Text-to-Image diffusion models can achieve this goal without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Bonan Li , Yinhan Hu , Songhua Liu , Xinchao Wang

The control problems of complex physical systems have broad applications in science and engineering. Previous studies have shown that generative control methods based on diffusion models offer significant advantages for solving these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Long Wei , Haodong Feng , Yuchen Yang , Ruiqi Feng , Peiyan Hu , Xiang Zheng , Tao Zhang , Dixia Fan , Tailin Wu

Diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable performance in image super-resolution (SR), but their high computational cost limits practical deployment in remote sensing applications. To address this issue, we propose SlimDiffSR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ce Wang , Zhenyu Hu , Wanjie Sun

Aligning diffusion models to downstream tasks often requires finetuning new models or gradient-based guidance at inference time to enable sampling from the reward-tilted posterior. In this work, we explore a simple inference-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Anuj Singh , Sayak Mukherjee , Ahmad Beirami , Hadi Jamali-Rad