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Aligning diffusion models with user preferences has been a key challenge. Existing methods for aligning diffusion models either require retraining or are limited to differentiable reward functions. To address these limitations, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Po-Hung Yeh , Kuang-Huei Lee , Jun-Cheng Chen

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in text-to-image generation. However, their practical applications are hindered by the misalignment between generated images and corresponding text prompts. To tackle this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Zijing Hu , Fengda Zhang , Long Chen , Kun Kuang , Jiahui Li , Kaifeng Gao , Jun Xiao , Xin Wang , Wenwu Zhu

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

Diffusion models, as a type of generative model, have achieved impressive results in generating images and videos conditioned on textual conditions. However, the generation process of diffusion models involves denoising dozens of steps to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hui Zhang , Zuxuan Wu , Zhen Xing , Jie Shao , Yu-Gang Jiang

Diffusion models excel at modeling complex and multimodal trajectory distributions for decision-making and control. Reward-gradient guided denoising has been recently proposed to generate trajectories that maximize both a differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Brian Yang , Huangyuan Su , Nikolaos Gkanatsios , Tsung-Wei Ke , Ayush Jain , Jeff Schneider , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Diffusion models have shown unprecedented success in the task of text-to-image generation. While these models are capable of generating high-quality and realistic images, the complexity of sequential denoising has raised societal concerns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Qinchan Li , Kenneth Chen , Changyue Su , Qi Sun

Diffusion-based planners have emerged as a promising approach for human-like trajectory generation in autonomous driving. Recent works incorporate reinforcement fine-tuning to enhance the robustness of diffusion planners through…

Recent text-driven motion generation methods span both discrete token-based approaches and continuous-latent formulations. MotionGPT3 exemplifies the latter paradigm, combining a learned continuous motion latent space with a diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jaymin Ban , JiHong Jeon , SangYeop Jeong

Despite strong image-generation performance, diffusion models' reconstruction objectives limit alignment with human preferences. RL enables such alignment through explicit rewards. However, most studies apply RL to the full denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Renye Yan , Jikang Cheng , Shikun Sun , Yi Sun , You Wu , Wei Peng , Zongwei Wang , Ling Liang , Junliang Xing , Yimao Cai

This paper focuses on the alignment of flow matching models with human preferences. A promising way is fine-tuning by directly backpropagating reward gradients through the differentiable generation process of flow matching. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhanhao Liang , Tao Yang , Jie Wu , Chengjian Feng , Liang Zheng

Diffusion Transformers have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in image generation but often come with excessive parameterization, resulting in considerable inference overhead in real-world applications. In this work, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Gongfan Fang , Kunjun Li , Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang

Generative modeling has recently undergone remarkable advancements, primarily propelled by the transformative implications of Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs). The impressive capability of these models, however, often entails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Gongfan Fang , Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang

Reward-based fine-tuning steers a pretrained diffusion or flow-based generative model toward higher-reward samples while remaining close to the pretrained model. Although existing methods are derived from different perspectives, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jeongjae Lee , Jinho Chang , Jeongsol Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Fine-tuning is a popular way of exploiting knowledge contained in a pre-trained convolutional network for a new visual recognition task. However, the orthogonal setting of transferring knowledge from a pretrained network to a visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Amelie Royer , Christoph H. Lampert

Diffusion models and flow matching have demonstrated remarkable success in text-to-image generation. While many existing alignment methods primarily focus on fine-tuning pre-trained generative models to maximize a given reward function,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Yidong Ouyang , Liyan Xie , Hongyuan Zha , Guang Cheng

Thanks to the powerful generative capacity of diffusion models, recent years have witnessed rapid progress in human motion generation. Existing diffusion-based methods employ disparate network architectures and training strategies. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yiheng Huang , Hui Yang , Chuanchen Luo , Yuxi Wang , Shibiao Xu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Man Zhang , Junran Peng

Diffusion models have proven to be highly effective in image and video generation; however, they encounter challenges in the correct composition of objects when generating images of varying sizes due to single-scale training data. Adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Lanqing Guo , Yingqing He , Haoxin Chen , Menghan Xia , Xiaodong Cun , Yufei Wang , Siyu Huang , Yong Zhang , Xintao Wang , Qifeng Chen , Ying Shan , Bihan Wen

Diffusion models produce high quality images but inference is costly due to many denoising steps and heavy matrix operations. We present DiffPro, a post-training, hardware-faithful framework that works with the exact integer kernels used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Farhana Amin , Sabiha Afroz , Kanchon Gharami , Mona Moghadampanah , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

Large-scale diffusion models like Stable Diffusion are powerful and find various real-world applications while customizing such models by fine-tuning is both memory and time inefficient. Motivated by the recent progress in natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Chendong Xiang , Fan Bao , Chongxuan Li , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Diffusion models have recently shown strong potential in language modeling, offering faster generation compared to traditional autoregressive approaches. However, applying supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to diffusion models remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guowei Xu , Wenxin Xu , Jiawang Zhao , Kaisheng Ma