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Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a pivotal method for expanding the knowledge of large language models. To handle complex queries more effectively, researchers developed Adaptive-RAG (A-RAG) to enhance the generated…

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Emerging multi-modal world models attempt to jointly generate videos across diverse modalities (e.g., RGB, depth, and mask), yet they fail to fully exploit the rich priors of existing foundation models. We propose $M^2$-REPA, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Junyuan Xiao , Dingkang Liang , Xin Zhou , Yixuan Ye , Tongtong Su , Guangmo Yi , Bin Xia , Qiang Lyu , Shurui Shi , Jun Huang , Jianlou Si , Wenming Yang

Existing self-supervised learning methods learn representation by means of pretext tasks which are either (1) discriminating that explicitly specify which features should be separated or (2) aligning that precisely indicate which features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Anjan Dutta , Massimiliano Mancini , Zeynep Akata

In diffusion and flow-matching generative models, guidance techniques are widely used to improve sample quality and consistency. Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the de facto choice in modern systems and achieves this by contrasting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Ankit Yadav , Ta Duc Huy , Lingqiao Liu

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

Conditioning image generation on specific features of the desired output is a key ingredient of modern generative models. However, existing approaches lack a general and unified way of representing structural and semantic conditioning at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Luca Butera , Andrea Cini , Alberto Ferrante , Cesare Alippi

Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs) enhance graph structures with natural language descriptions, enabling detailed representation of data and their relationships across a broad spectrum of real-world scenarios. Despite the potential for deeper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zheng Zhang , Yuntong Hu , Bo Pan , Chen Ling , Liang Zhao

Text-to-image diffusion generative models can generate high quality images at the cost of tedious prompt engineering. Controllability can be improved by introducing layout conditioning, however existing methods lack layout editing ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Alessandro Fontanella , Petru-Daniel Tudosiu , Yongxin Yang , Shifeng Zhang , Sarah Parisot

The proposed method, Discriminator Guidance, aims to improve sample generation of pre-trained diffusion models. The approach introduces a discriminator that gives explicit supervision to a denoising sample path whether it is realistic or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dongjun Kim , Yeongmin Kim , Se Jung Kwon , Wanmo Kang , Il-Chul Moon

With the rapid development of text-to-vision generation diffusion models, classifier-free guidance has emerged as the most prevalent method for conditioning. However, this approach inherently requires twice as many steps for model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Huixuan Zhang , Junzhe Zhang , Xiaojun Wan

Spatially dense self-supervised learning is a rapidly growing problem domain with promising applications for unsupervised segmentation and pretraining for dense downstream tasks. Despite the abundance of temporal data in the form of videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Mohammadreza Salehi , Efstratios Gavves , Cees G. M. Snoek , Yuki M. Asano

To fully leverage the capabilities of diffusion models, we are often interested in optimizing downstream reward functions during inference. While numerous algorithms for reward-guided generation have been recently proposed due to their…

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We found that enforcing guidance throughout the sampling process is often counterproductive due to the model-fitting issue, where samples are 'tuned' to match the classifier's parameters rather than generalizing the expected condition. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Anh-Dung Dinh , Daochang Liu , Chang Xu

The synergy between generative and discriminative models receives growing attention. While discriminative Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) excels in high-level semantics, it struggles with perceiving fine-grained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Shijie Ma , Yuying Ge , Teng Wang , Yuxin Guo , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan

Fine-tuning Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) at the user level to generate videos that reflect specific attributes of training data presents notable challenges, yet remains underexplored despite its practical importance. Meanwhile, recent work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Sungwon Hwang , Hyojin Jang , Kinam Kim , Minho Park , Jaegul Choo

Data availability remains a critical bottleneck in many deep learning applications. Large-scale datasets are often expensive to collect, curate and annotate, which can limit the scalability and applicability of supervised learning methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Nithesh Chandher Karthikeyan , Jonas Unger , Gabriel Eilertsen

Diffusion-based methods represented as stochastic differential equations on a continuous-time domain have recently proven successful as a non-adversarial generative model. Training such models relies on denoising score matching, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sarthak Mittal , Korbinian Abstreiter , Stefan Bauer , Bernhard Schölkopf , Arash Mehrjou

As a challenging task, text-to-image generation aims to generate photo-realistic and semantically consistent images according to the given text descriptions. Existing methods mainly extract the text information from only one sentence to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xintian Wu , Hanbin Zhao , Liangli Zheng , Shouhong Ding , Xi Li

Deep generative models have shown impressive results in generating realistic images of faces. GANs managed to generate high-quality, high-fidelity images when conditioned on semantic masks, but they still lack the ability to diversify their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Nico Giambi , Giuseppe Lisanti