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Text-to-image diffusion models enable high-quality image generation but are computationally expensive. While prior work optimizes per-inference efficiency, we explore an orthogonal approach: reducing redundancy across correlated prompts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Dale Decatur , Thibault Groueix , Wang Yifan , Rana Hanocka , Vladimir Kim , Matheus Gadelha

Text-to-image synthesis has made remarkable progress, yet accurately interpreting complex and lengthy prompts remains challenging, often resulting in semantic inconsistencies and missing details. Existing solutions, such as fine-tuning, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Wen Ye , Zhaocheng Liu , Yuwei Gui , Tingyu Yuan , Yunyue Su , Bowen Fang , Chaoyang Zhao , Qiang Liu , Liang Wang

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative tasks, especially in the domain of text-to-image synthesis; however, their iterative denoising process demands substantial computational resources. In this paper, we present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Xinle Cheng , Zhuoming Chen , Zhihao Jia

The spectacular success of deep generative models calls for quantitative tools to measure their statistical performance. Divergence frontiers have recently been proposed as an evaluation framework for generative models, due to their ability…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-14 Lang Liu , Krishna Pillutla , Sean Welleck , Sewoong Oh , Yejin Choi , Zaid Harchaoui

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong generative performance; however, generated samples often fail to fully align with human intent. This paper studies a test-time scaling method that enables sampling from regions with higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yeongmin Kim , Donghyeok Shin , Byeonghu Na , Minsang Park , Richard Lee Kim , Il-Chul Moon

This report presents the comprehensive implementation, evaluation, and optimization of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) and Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIMs), which are state-of-the-art generative models. During…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jaineet Shah , Michael Gromis , Rickston Pinto

With the rise of reasoning language models and test-time scaling methods as a paradigm for improving model performance, substantial computation is often required to generate multiple candidate sequences from the same prompt. This enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Daniel Scalena , Leonidas Zotos , Elisabetta Fersini , Malvina Nissim , Ahmet Üstün

We propose in this paper an analytically new construct of a diffusion model whose drift and diffusion parameters yield an exponentially time-decaying Signal to Noise Ratio in the forward process. In reverse, the construct cleverly carries…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Tanmay Asthana , Yufang Bao , Hamid Krim

One of the most striking findings in modern research on large language models (LLMs) is that scaling up compute during training leads to better results. However, less attention has been given to the benefits of scaling compute during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Sean Welleck , Amanda Bertsch , Matthew Finlayson , Hailey Schoelkopf , Alex Xie , Graham Neubig , Ilia Kulikov , Zaid Harchaoui

Large language models have achieved remarkable success on final-answer mathematical problems, largely due to the ease of applying reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards. However, the reasoning underlying these solutions is often…

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in generative tasks, including audio super-resolution (SR). In many applications like movie post-production and album mastering, substantial computational budgets are available for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yizhu Jin , Zhen Ye , Zeyue Tian , Haohe Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Yike Guo , Wei Xue

Recent image generation schemes typically capture image distribution in a pre-constructed latent space relying on a frozen image tokenizer. Though the performance of tokenizer plays an essential role to the successful generation, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Kai Qiu , Xiang Li , Jason Kuen , Hao Chen , Xiaohao Xu , Jiuxiang Gu , Yinyi Luo , Bhiksha Raj , Zhe Lin , Marios Savvides

The goal of this paper is to enhance Text-to-Audio generation at inference, focusing on generating realistic audio that precisely aligns with text prompts. Despite the rapid advancements, existing models often fail to achieve a reliable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Jaemin Jung , Jaehun Kim , Inkyu Shin , Joon Son Chung

With the rapidly growing model complexity and data volume, training deep generative models (DGMs) for better performance has becoming an increasingly more important challenge. Previous research on this problem has mainly focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yufan Zhou , Chunyuan Li , Changyou Chen , Jinhui Xu

Neural networks used for image classification tasks in critical applications must be tested with sufficient realistic data to assure their correctness. To effectively test an image classification neural network, one must obtain realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Taejoon Byun , Abhishek Vijayakumar , Sanjai Rayadurgam , Darren Cofer

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

Transformer-based models have made tremendous impacts in natural language generation. However the inference speed is a bottleneck due to large model size and intensive computing involved in auto-regressive decoding process. We develop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yu Yan , Fei Hu , Jiusheng Chen , Nikhil Bhendawade , Ting Ye , Yeyun Gong , Nan Duan , Desheng Cui , Bingyu Chi , Ruofei Zhang

Despite the unprecedented success of text-to-image diffusion models, controlling the number of depicted objects using text is surprisingly hard. This is important for various applications from technical documents, to children's books to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Lital Binyamin , Yoad Tewel , Hilit Segev , Eran Hirsch , Royi Rassin , Gal Chechik

The recent wave of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has dramatically increased our text-based image generation abilities. These models can generate realistic images for a staggering variety of prompts and exhibit impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Alexander C. Li , Mihir Prabhudesai , Shivam Duggal , Ellis Brown , Deepak Pathak

Diffusion Multi-modal Large Language Models (dMLLMs) have recently emerged as a novel architecture unifying image generation and understanding. However, developing effective and efficient Test-Time Scaling (TTS) methods to unlock their full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yi Xin , Siqi Luo , Tianxiang Xu , Qi Qin , Haoxing Chen , Kaiwen Zhu , Zhiwei Zhang , Yangfan He , Rongchao Zhang , Jinbin Bai , Shuo Cao , Bin Fu , Junjun He , Yihao Liu , Yuewen Cao , Xiaohong Liu