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Image generation abilities of text-to-image diffusion models have significantly advanced, yielding highly photo-realistic images from descriptive text and increasing the viability of leveraging synthetic images to train computer vision…

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The landscape of video generation is shifting, from a focus on generating visually appealing clips to building virtual environments that support interaction and maintain physical plausibility. These developments point toward the emergence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jingtong Yue , Ziqi Huang , Zhaoxi Chen , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Ziwei Liu

Providing a human-understandable explanation of classifiers' decisions has become imperative to generate trust in their use for day-to-day tasks. Although many works have addressed this problem by generating visual explanation maps, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Martin Charachon , Paul-Henry Cournède , Céline Hudelot , Roberto Ardon

Recent advances in image editing, driven by image diffusion models, have shown remarkable progress. However, significant challenges remain, as these models often struggle to follow complex edit instructions accurately and frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Noam Rotstein , Gal Yona , Daniel Silver , Roy Velich , David Bensaïd , Ron Kimmel

Video diffusion models are able to generate high-quality videos by learning strong spatial-temporal priors on large-scale datasets. In this paper, we aim to investigate whether such priors derived from a generative process are suitable for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Zejia Weng , Xitong Yang , Zhen Xing , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Diffusion Transformers have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in visual synthesis, yet they often struggle with high-level semantic reasoning and long-horizon planning. This limitation frequently leads to visual hallucinations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lun Huang , You Xie , Hongyi Xu , Tianpei Gu , Chenxu Zhang , Guoxian Song , Zenan Li , Xiaochen Zhao , Linjie Luo , Guillermo Sapiro

Generative pre-trained models have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in language and vision domains by learning useful representations. In this paper, we extend the scope of this effectiveness by showing that visual robot manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Hongtao Wu , Ya Jing , Chilam Cheang , Guangzeng Chen , Jiafeng Xu , Xinghang Li , Minghuan Liu , Hang Li , Tao Kong

Video prediction models combined with planning algorithms have shown promise in enabling robots to learn to perform many vision-based tasks through only self-supervision, reaching novel goals in cluttered scenes with unseen objects.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Suraj Nair , Chelsea Finn

Generative models have made significant progress in synthesizing visual content, including images, videos, and 3D/4D structures. However, they are typically trained with surrogate objectives such as likelihood or reconstruction loss, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuanzhi Liang , Yijie Fang , Ke Hao , Rui Li , Ziqi Ni , Ruijie Su , Chi Zhang

Pre-trained text-to-image generative models can produce diverse, semantically rich, and realistic images from natural language descriptions. Compared with language, images usually convey information with more details and less ambiguity. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jialu Gao , Kaizhe Hu , Guowei Xu , Huazhe Xu

While pre-trained visual representations have significantly advanced imitation learning, they are often task-agnostic as they remain frozen during policy learning. In this work, we explore leveraging pre-trained text-to-image diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Heeseong Shin , Byeongho Heo , Dongyoon Han , Seungryong Kim , Taekyung Kim

Video generative models can be regarded as world simulators due to their ability to capture dynamic, continuous changes inherent in real-world environments. These models integrate high-dimensional information across visual, temporal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Hengyuan Cao , Yutong Feng , Biao Gong , Yijing Tian , Yunhong Lu , Chuang Liu , Bin Wang

Advances in technology have led to the development of methods that can create desired visual multimedia. In particular, image generation using deep learning has been extensively studied across diverse fields. In comparison, video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Doyeon Kim , Donggyu Joo , Junmo Kim

Large-scale video generative models can synthesize diverse and realistic visual content for dynamic world creation, but they often lack element-wise controllability, hindering their use in editing scenes and training embodied AI agents. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sicheng Mo , Ziyang Leng , Leon Liu , Weizhen Wang , Honglin He , Bolei Zhou

Achieving semantic alignment across diverse video generation conditions remains a significant challenge. Methods that rely on explicit structural guidance often enforce rigid spatial constraints that limit semantic flexibility, whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zexi Wu , Baolu Li , Jing Dai , Yiming Zhang , Yue Ma , Qinghe Wang , Xu Jia , Hongming Xu

In order to autonomously learn wide repertoires of complex skills, robots must be able to learn from their own autonomously collected data, without human supervision. One learning signal that is always available for autonomously collected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Frederik Ebert , Chelsea Finn , Alex X. Lee , Sergey Levine

Designing realistic multi-object scenes requires not only generating images, but also planning spatial layouts that respect semantic relations and physical plausibility. On one hand, while recent advances in diffusion models have enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zezhong Fan , Xiaohan Li , Luyi Ma , Kai Zhao , Liang Peng , Topojoy Biswas , Evren Korpeoglu , Kaushiki Nag , Kannan Achan

Image-generation diffusion models have been fine-tuned to unlock new capabilities such as image-editing and novel view synthesis. Can we similarly unlock image-generation models for visuomotor control? We present GENIMA, a behavior-cloning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Mohit Shridhar , Yat Long Lo , Stephen James

Recent improvements in conditional generative modeling have made it possible to generate high-quality images from language descriptions alone. We investigate whether these methods can directly address the problem of sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Anurag Ajay , Yilun Du , Abhi Gupta , Joshua Tenenbaum , Tommi Jaakkola , Pulkit Agrawal

Image diffusion models are trained on independently sampled static images. While this is the bedrock task protocol in generative modeling, capturing the temporal world through the lens of static snapshots is information-deficient by design.…

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