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Text-to-image synthesis is the task of generating images from text descriptions. Image generation, by itself, is a challenging task. When we combine image generation and text, we bring complexity to a new level: we need to combine data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Douglas M. Souza , Jônatas Wehrmann , Duncan D. Ruiz

We present Nucleus-Image, a text-to-image generation model that establishes a new Pareto frontier in quality-versus-efficiency by matching or exceeding leading models on GenEval, DPG-Bench, and OneIG-Bench while activating only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chandan Akiti , Ajay Modukuri , Murali Nandan Nagarapu , Gunavardhan Akiti , Haozhe Liu

Scaling video diffusion transformers is fundamentally bottlenecked by two compounding costs: the expensive quadratic complexity of attention per step, and the iterative sampling steps. In this work, we propose EFlow, an efficient few-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Dogyun Park , Yanyu Li , Sergey Tulyakov , Anil Kag

In this paper we propose a new generative model of text, Step-unrolled Denoising Autoencoder (SUNDAE), that does not rely on autoregressive models. Similarly to denoising diffusion techniques, SUNDAE is repeatedly applied on a sequence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Nikolay Savinov , Junyoung Chung , Mikolaj Binkowski , Erich Elsen , Aaron van den Oord

Recent text-to-image (T2I) diffusion and flow-matching models can produce highly realistic images from natural language prompts. In practical scenarios, T2I systems are often run in a ``generate--then--select'' mode: many seeds are sampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Huanlei Guo , Hongxin Wei , Bingyi Jing

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly enhanced generative AI capabilities across text, images, and audio. However, automatically evaluating the quality of these generated outputs presents ongoing challenges. Although numerous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Tian Lan , Yang-Hao Zhou , Zi-Ao Ma , Fanshu Sun , Rui-Qing Sun , Junyu Luo , Rong-Cheng Tu , Heyan Huang , Chen Xu , Zhijing Wu , Xian-Ling Mao

Recent text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models achieve remarkable realism, yet faithful prompt-image alignment remains challenging, particularly for complex prompts with multiple objects, relations, and fine-grained attributes. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Liyao Jiang , Ruichen Chen , Chao Gao , Di Niu

State-of-the-art text-to-image models produce high-quality images, but inference remains expensive as generation requires several sequential ODE or denoising steps. Native one-step models aim to reduce this cost by mapping noise to an image…

Customizing pre-trained text-to-image generation model has attracted massive research interest recently, due to its huge potential in real-world applications. Although existing methods are able to generate creative content for a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yufan Zhou , Ruiyi Zhang , Jiuxiang Gu , Tong Sun

The multi-step denoising process in diffusion and Flow Matching models causes major efficiency issues, which motivates research on few-step generation. We present Solution Flow Models (SoFlow), a framework for one-step generation from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tianze Luo , Haotian Yuan , Zhuang Liu

Text-to-image generation powers content creation across design, media, and data augmentation. Post-training of text-to-image generative models is a promising path to improve human preference alignment, factuality, and aesthetics. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Seungwook Kim , Minsu Cho

Multistep inference is a bottleneck for real-time generative speech enhancement because flow- and diffusion-based systems learn an instantaneous velocity field and therefore rely on iterative ordinary differential equation (ODE) solvers. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Duojia Li , Shenghui Lu , Hongchen Pan , Zongyi Zhan , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li

Evaluating text-to-image generative models remains a challenge, despite the remarkable progress being made in their overall performances. While existing metrics like CLIPScore work for coarse evaluations, they lack the sensitivity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Georgia Gabriela Sampaio , Ruixiang Zhang , Shuangfei Zhai , Jiatao Gu , Josh Susskind , Navdeep Jaitly , Yizhe Zhang

End-to-end (E2E) speech-to-text translation (ST) often depends on pretraining its encoder and/or decoder using source transcripts via speech recognition or text translation tasks, without which translation performance drops substantially.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Biao Zhang , Barry Haddow , Rico Sennrich

Large-scale multi-view reconstruction models have made remarkable progress, but most existing approaches still rely on fully supervised training with ground-truth 3D/4D annotations. Such annotations are expensive and particularly scarce for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Nan Huang , Pengcheng Yu , Weijia Zeng , James M. Rehg , Angjoo Kanazawa , Haiwen Feng , Qianqian Wang

Personalized text-to-image generation aims to create images tailored to user-defined concepts and textual descriptions. Balancing the fidelity of the learned concept with its ability for generation in various contexts presents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Vera Soboleva , Maksim Nakhodnov , Aibek Alanov

With the rapid development of diffusion models, text-to-image(T2I) models have made significant progress, showcasing impressive abilities in prompt following and image generation. Recently launched models such as FLUX.1 and Ideogram2.0,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jiayi Lei , Renrui Zhang , Xiangfei Hu , Weifeng Lin , Zhen Li , Wenjian Sun , Ruoyi Du , Le Zhuo , Zhongyu Li , Xinyue Li , Shitian Zhao , Ziyu Guo , Yiting Lu , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li

Text-to-motion generation, which synthesizes 3D human motions from text inputs, holds immense potential for applications in gaming, film, and robotics. Recently, diffusion-based methods have been shown to generate more diversity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wanjiang Weng , Xiaofeng Tan , Junbo Wang , Guo-Sen Xie , Pan Zhou , Hongsong Wang

Previous text-to-image synthesis algorithms typically use explicit textual instructions to generate/manipulate images accurately, but they have difficulty adapting to guidance in the form of coarsely matched texts. In this work, we attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mengyao Cui , Zhe Zhu , Shao-Ping Lu , Yulu Yang

We present FlowLM, a flow matching language model transformed from pre-trained diffusion language models via efficient fine-tuning. By re-aligning the curved sampling trajectories of diffusion models into straight-line flows, FlowLM enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Runzhe Zhang , Letian Chen , Wenpeng Zhang , Zhouhan Lin , Peilin Zhao