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We propose a new reinforcement learning (RL) formulation for training continuous-time score-based diffusion models for generative AI to generate samples that maximize reward functions while keeping the generated distributions close to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xuefeng Gao , Jiale Zha , Xun Yu Zhou

Multi-view diffusion models, obtained by applying Supervised Finetuning (SFT) to text-to-image diffusion models, have driven recent breakthroughs in text-to-3D research. However, due to the limited size and quality of existing 3D datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Desai Xie , Jiahao Li , Hao Tan , Xin Sun , Zhixin Shu , Yi Zhou , Sai Bi , Sören Pirk , Arie E. Kaufman

Quantum machine learning (QML) models often require deep, parameterized circuits to capture complex frequency components, limiting their scalability and near-term implementation. We introduce \textit{Quantum Random Features} (QRF) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Akitada Sakurai , Aoi Hayashi , William John Munro , Kae Nemoto

Diffusion models have emerged as preeminent contenders in the realm of generative models. Distinguished by their distinctive sequential generative processes, characterized by hundreds or even thousands of timesteps, diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haojun Sun , Chen Tang , Zhi Wang , Yuan Meng , Jingyan jiang , Xinzhu Ma , Wenwu Zhu

Diffusion distillation, exemplified by Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD), has shown great promise in few-step generation but often sacrifices quality for sampling speed. While integrating Reinforcement Learning (RL) into distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Linwei Dong , Ruoyu Guo , Ge Bai , Zehuan Yuan , Yawei Luo , Changqing Zou

Diffusion models have been widely adopted in image and video generation. However, their complex network architecture leads to high inference overhead for its generation process. Existing diffusion quantization methods primarily focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yihua Shao , Deyang Lin , Fanhu Zeng , Minxi Yan , Muyang Zhang , Siyu Chen , Yuxuan Fan , Ziyang Yan , Haozhe Wang , Jingcai Guo , Yan Wang , Haotong Qin , Hao Tang

Energy-based policies offer a flexible framework for modeling complex, multimodal behaviors in reinforcement learning (RL). In maximum entropy RL, the optimal policy is a Boltzmann distribution derived from the soft Q-function, but direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Vineet Jain , Tara Akhound-Sadegh , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality, realistic images from textual descriptions. However, these approaches have faced challenges in precisely aligning the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zutao Jiang , Guian Fang , Jianhua Han , Guansong Lu , Hang Xu , Shengcai Liao , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis, but they demand extensive computational and memory resources for training, fine-tuning and inference. Although advanced quantization techniques have successfully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Hoigi Seo , Wongi Jeong , Kyungryeol Lee , Se Young Chun

Recent advances in few-step diffusion distillation have enabled efficient image generation, yet aligning these models with human preferences remains challenging. We propose Reward-Tilted Distribution Matching Distillation (RTDMD), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yushi Huang , Xiangxin Zhou , Ruoyu Wang , Chi Zhang , Jun Zhang , Tianyu Pang

Existing fine-tuning methods either tune all parameters of the pre-trained model (full fine-tuning), which is not efficient, or only tune the last linear layer (linear probing), which suffers a significant accuracy drop compared to the full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Dongze Lian , Daquan Zhou , Jiashi Feng , Xinchao Wang

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive image synthesis performance, yet many UNet-based models are trained at certain fixed resolutions. Their quality tends to degrade when generating images at out-of-training resolutions. We trace…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jiaxuan Ren , Junhan Zhu , Huan Wang

We propose a novel offline reinforcement learning (offline RL) approach, introducing the Diffusion-model-guided Implicit Q-learning with Adaptive Revaluation (DIAR) framework. We address two key challenges in offline RL: out-of-distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Jaehyun Park , Yunho Kim , Sejin Kim , Byung-Jun Lee , Sundong Kim

Diffusion policies are competitive for offline reinforcement learning (RL) but are typically guided at sampling time by heuristics that lack a statistical notion of risk. We introduce LRT-Diffusion, a risk-aware sampling rule that treats…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Ximan Sun , Xiang Cheng

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn policies from pre-existing datasets without further interactions, making it a challenging task. Q-learning algorithms struggle with extrapolation errors in offline settings, while supervised…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zhengbang Zhu , Minghuan Liu , Liyuan Mao , Bingyi Kang , Minkai Xu , Yong Yu , Stefano Ermon , Weinan Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have made rapid progress, yet adapting them to downstream scenarios still commonly relies on supervised fine-tuning (SFT). When downstream data exhibit a substantial distribution shift from the model's prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jiacheng Wang , Ping Jian , Zhen Yang , Zirong Chen , Keren Liao , Zhongbin Guo

Adapting large-scale foundation flow and diffusion generative models to optimize task-specific objectives while preserving prior information is crucial for real-world applications such as molecular design, protein docking, and creative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Riccardo De Santi , Marin Vlastelica , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Zebang Shen , Niao He , Andreas Krause

Reinforcement learning (RL)-based fine-tuning has emerged as a powerful approach for aligning diffusion models with black-box objectives. Proximal policy optimization (PPO) is a popular choice of method for policy optimization. While…

Diffusion-based generative models have achieved remarkable performance across various domains, yet their practical deployment is often limited by high sampling costs. While prior work focuses on training objectives or individual solvers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Sangwoo Jo , Sungjoon Choi

Adapting pretrained diffusion models to downstream objectives such as inverse problems often requires expensive test-time guidance or optimization. We propose a principled framework for generating high-quality reward-aligned samples at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Kushagra Pandey , Farrin Marouf Sofian , Jan Niklas Groeneveld , Felix Draxler , Stephan Mandt
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