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This paper tackles the emerging challenge of training generative models within a self-consuming loop, wherein successive generations of models are recursively trained on mixtures of real and synthetic data from previous generations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Shi Fu , Sen Zhang , Yingjie Wang , Xinmei Tian , Dacheng Tao

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) dominate high-quality image generation, yet integrating representation learning with generative modeling remains a challenge. We introduce a novel generative image modeling framework that seamlessly bridges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Theodoros Kouzelis , Efstathios Karypidis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Synthetic Data Generation has become essential for scalable, privacy-preserving statistical analysis. While standard approaches based on generative models, such as Normalizing Flows, have been widely used, they often suffer from slow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-23 Rex Shen , Lu Tian

The problem of model collapse has presented new challenges in iterative training of generative models, where such training with synthetic data leads to an overall degradation of performance. This paper looks at the problem from a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-19 Soham Bakshi , Sunrit Chakraborty

Flow matching and diffusion models have shown impressive results in text-to-image generation, producing photorealistic images through an iterative denoising process. A common strategy to speed up synthesis is to perform early denoising at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jyun-Ze Tang , Chih-Fan Hsu , Jeng-Lin Li , Ming-Ching Chang , Wei-Chao Chen

Text-conditioned image generation models have recently achieved astonishing results in image quality and text alignment and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. Since they are highly data-driven, relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Patrick Schramowski , Manuel Brack , Björn Deiseroth , Kristian Kersting

By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Dominik Lorenz , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative approaches for missing-data imputation, yet most existing methods operate directly in data space and degrade when training data are heavily incomplete. We investigate whether shifting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Alberte Heering Estad , Ignacio Peis , Jes Frellsen

Training with synthetic data is becoming increasingly inevitable as synthetic content proliferates across the web, driven by the remarkable performance of recent deep generative models. This reliance on synthetic data can also be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Huminhao Zhu , Fangyikang Wang , Tianyu Ding , Qing Qu , Zhihui Zhu

The performance of automated face recognition systems is inevitably impacted by the facial aging process. However, high quality datasets of individuals collected over several years are typically small in scale. In this work, we propose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sudipta Banerjee , Govind Mittal , Ameya Joshi , Chinmay Hegde , Nasir Memon

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Despite the groundbreaking success of diffusion models in generating high-fidelity images, their latent space remains relatively under-explored, even though it holds significant promise for enabling versatile and interpretable image editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Li Wang , Boyan Gao , Yanran Li , Zhao Wang , Xiaosong Yang , David A. Clifton , Jun Xiao

Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have enabled the creation of high-quality synthetic data that closely mimics real-world data. This paper explores the adaptation of the Stable Diffusion 2.0 model for generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo D'Oria , Matteo Matteucci

Single Domain Generalization (SDG) aims to train models that maintain consistent performance across diverse scenarios using data from a single source. While latent diffusion models (LDMs) show promise for augmenting limited source data, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hao Li , Yubin Xiao , Ke Liang , Mengzhu Wang , Long Lan , Kenli Li , Xinwang Liu

Standard Latent Diffusion Models rely on a complex, three-part architecture consisting of a separate encoder, decoder, and diffusion network, which are trained in multiple stages. This modular design is computationally inefficient, leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiyuan Wang , Muhan Zhang

Model collapse, the severe degradation of generative models when iteratively trained on their own outputs, has gained significant attention in recent years. This paper examines Chain of Diffusion, where a pretrained text-to-image diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Youngseok Yoon , Dainong Hu , Iain Weissburg , Yao Qin , Haewon Jeong

Inverse problems arise in a multitude of applications, where the goal is to recover a clean signal from noisy and possibly (non)linear observations. The difficulty of a reconstruction problem depends on multiple factors, such as the ground…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Zalan Fabian , Berk Tinaz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly prevalent, their generated outputs are proliferating across the web, risking a future where machine-generated content dilutes human-authored text. Since online data is the primary resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 George Drayson , Emine Yilmaz , Vasileios Lampos

While deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods have shown impressive outcomes with synthetic degradation scenarios such as bicubic downsampling, they frequently struggle to perform well on real-world images that feature complex,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Hyeonjae Kim , Dongjin Kim , Eugene Jin , Tae Hyun Kim

Flow matching is a recent framework to train generative models that exhibits impressive empirical performance while being relatively easier to train compared with diffusion-based models. Despite its advantageous properties, prior methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Quan Dao , Hao Phung , Binh Nguyen , Anh Tran