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Despite substantial advances in scaling test-time compute, an ongoing debate in the community is how it should be scaled up to enable continued and efficient improvements with scaling. There are largely two approaches: first, distilling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Amrith Setlur , Nived Rajaraman , Sergey Levine , Aviral Kumar

Flow-based text-to-image models follow deterministic trajectories, making it costly to explore diverse modes under limited sampling budgets. Existing approaches to improving diversity often rely on retraining or degrade image fidelity. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jingxuan Wu , Zhenglin Wan , Xingrui Yu , Yuzhe Yang , Bo An , Ivor Tsang , Yang You

In this paper, we design and train a Generative Image-to-text Transformer, GIT, to unify vision-language tasks such as image/video captioning and question answering. While generative models provide a consistent network architecture between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Jianfeng Wang , Zhengyuan Yang , Xiaowei Hu , Linjie Li , Kevin Lin , Zhe Gan , Zicheng Liu , Ce Liu , Lijuan Wang

We introduce DiverseVAR, a framework that enhances the diversity of text-conditioned visual autoregressive models (VAR) at test time without requiring retraining, fine-tuning, or substantial computational overhead. While VAR models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mingue Park , Prin Phunyaphibarn , Phillip Y. Lee , Minhyuk Sung

Using more test-time computation during language model inference, such as generating more intermediate thoughts or sampling multiple candidate answers, has proven effective in significantly improving model performance. This paper takes an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Xingwu Chen , Miao Lu , Beining Wu , Difan Zou

Stable Diffusion has advanced text-to-image synthesis, but training models to generate images with accurate object quantity is still difficult due to the high computational cost and the challenge of teaching models the abstract concept of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yanyu Li , Pencheng Wan , Liang Han , Yaowei Wang , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

In recent years, diffusion models have gained popularity for their ability to generate higher-quality images in comparison to GAN models. However, like any other large generative models, these models require a huge amount of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Rajesh Shrestha , Bowen Xie

Currently, high-fidelity text-to-image models are developed in an accelerating pace. Among them, Diffusion Models have led to a remarkable improvement in the quality of image generation, making it vary challenging to distinguish between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Ziyue Zeng , Haoyuan Liu , Dingjie Peng , Luoxu Jing , Hiroshi Watanabe

Image tokenizers are crucial for visual generative models, e.g., diffusion models (DMs) and autoregressive (AR) models, as they construct the latent representation for modeling. Increasing token length is a common approach to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xiang Li , Kai Qiu , Hao Chen , Jason Kuen , Jiuxiang Gu , Bhiksha Raj , Zhe Lin

Tuning tensor program generation involves searching for various possible program transformation combinations for a given program on target hardware to optimize the tensor program execution. It is already a complex process because of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Gaurav Verma , Siddhisanket Raskar , Zhen Xie , Abid M Malik , Murali Emani , Barbara Chapman

Iterative generative models, such as noise conditional score networks and denoising diffusion probabilistic models, produce high quality samples by gradually denoising an initial noise vector. However, their denoising process has many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Eric Luhman , Troy Luhman

Although diffusion models exhibit impressive generative capabilities, existing methods for stylized image generation based on these models often require textual inversion or fine-tuning with style images, which is time-consuming and limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xin Ma , Yaohui Wang , Xinyuan Chen , Tien-Tsin Wong , Cunjian Chen

Visual generative AI models often encounter challenges related to text-image alignment and reasoning limitations. This paper presents a novel method for selectively enhancing the signal at critical denoising steps, optimizing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Paul Grimal , Hervé Le Borgne , Olivier Ferret

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced automated test generation, yet existing methods often rely on ground-truth code for verification, risking bug propagation and limiting applicability in test-driven development. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Hamed Taherkhani , Alireza DaghighFarsoodeh , Mohammad Chowdhury , Hung Viet Pham , Hadi Hemmati

Neural networks struggle with image classification when biases are learned and misleads correlations, affecting their generalization and performance. Previous methods require attribute labels (e.g. background, color) or utilizes Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Donggeun Ko , Dongjun Lee , Namjun Park , Wonkyeong Shim , Jaekwang Kim

Recent advancements in test time compute, particularly through the use of verifier models, have significantly enhanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). This generator-verifier approach closely resembles the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Jianing Qi , Hao Tang , Zhigang Zhu

We provide an overview of the diffusion model as a method to generate new samples. Generative models have been recently adopted for tasks such as art generation (Stable Diffusion, Dall-E) and text generation (ChatGPT). Diffusion models in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-13 Justin Le

The usage of medical image data for the training of large-scale machine learning approaches is particularly challenging due to its scarce availability and the costly generation of data annotations, typically requiring the engagement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Joshua Niemeijer , Jan Ehrhardt , Hristina Uzunova , Heinz Handels

Diffusion- and flow-based models usually allocate compute uniformly across space, updating all patches with the same timestep and number of function evaluations. While convenient, this ignores the heterogeneity of natural images: some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Johannes Schusterbauer , Ming Gui , Yusong Li , Pingchuan Ma , Felix Krause , Björn Ommer

Deep learning models have emerged as a powerful tool for various medical applications. However, their success depends on large, high-quality datasets that are challenging to obtain due to privacy concerns and costly annotation. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Milad Yazdani , Yasamin Medghalchi , Pooria Ashrafian , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dena Shahriari