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Diffusion models dominate image editing, yet their global denoising mechanism entangles edited regions with surrounding context, causing modifications to propagate into areas that should remain intact. We propose a fundamentally different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wei Chow , Linfeng Li , Xian Sun , Lingdong Kong , Zefeng Li , Qi Xu , Hang Song , Tian Ye , Xian Wang , Jinbin Bai , Shilin Xu , Xiangtai Li , Junting Pan , Shaoteng Liu , Ran Zhou , Tianshu Yang , Songhua Liu

Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) enable flexible decoding orders, yet existing samplers remain largely greedy, selecting locally certain tokens without accounting for their downstream effects. We show that this myopia can increase cumulative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Kaisen Yang , Jayden Teoh , Kaicheng Yang , Yitong Zhang , Alex Lamb

Generating long, high-quality videos remains a challenge due to the complex interplay of spatial and temporal dynamics and hardware limitations. In this work, we introduce MaskFlow, a unified video generation framework that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Michael Fuest , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Advancements in text-to-image generative AI with large multimodal models are spreading into the field of image compression, creating high-quality representation of images at extremely low bit rates. This work introduces novel components to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Cheng-Lin Wu , Hyomin Choi , Ivan V. Bajić

Text-to-image generation has witnessed great progress, especially with the recent advancements in diffusion models. Since texts cannot provide detailed conditions like object appearance, reference images are usually leveraged for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zhiqi Huang , Huixin Xiong , Haoyu Wang , Longguang Wang , Zhiheng Li

Masked image modeling (MIM) has been recognized as a strong self-supervised pre-training approach in the vision domain. However, the mechanism and properties of the learned representations by such a scheme, as well as how to further enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Kevin Zhang , Zhiqiang Shen

A novel accelerated mobile edge generation (MEG) framework is proposed for generating high-resolution images on mobile devices. Exploiting a large-scale latent diffusion model (LDM) distributed across edge server (ES) and user equipment…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-08 Xiaoxia Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu , Hong Xing , Arumugam Nallanathan

High-dimensional generative models have many applications including image compression, multimedia generation, anomaly detection and data completion. State-of-the-art estimators for natural images are autoregressive, decomposing the joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ajay Jain , Pieter Abbeel , Deepak Pathak

Despite the success of transformers on various computer vision tasks, they suffer from excessive memory and computational cost. Some works present dynamic vision transformers to accelerate inference by pruning redundant tokens. A key to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Fengyuan Shi , Limin Wang

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

There has been significant progress in Masked Image Modeling (MIM). Existing MIM methods can be broadly categorized into two groups based on the reconstruction target: pixel-based and tokenizer-based approaches. The former offers a simpler…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yuan Liu , Songyang Zhang , Jiacheng Chen , Zhaohui Yu , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin

In this paper, we propose a unified framework that leverages a single pretrained LLM for Motion-related Multimodal Generation, referred to as MoMug. MoMug integrates diffusion-based continuous motion generation with the model's inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shinichi Tanaka , Zhao Wang , Yoichi Kato , Jun Ohya

Many deep learning tasks require annotations that are too time consuming for human operators, resulting in small dataset sizes. This is especially true for dense regression problems such as crowd counting which requires the location of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Arian Bakhtiarnia , Qi Zhang , Alexandros Iosifidis

Recently, masked image modeling (MIM), which learns visual representations by reconstructing the masked patches of an image, has dominated self-supervised learning in computer vision. However, the pre-training of MIM always takes massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jie Gui , Tuo Chen , Minjing Dong , Zhengqi Liu , Hao Luo , James Tin-Yau Kwok , Yuan Yan Tang

The past year has witnessed a rapid development of masked image modeling (MIM). MIM is mostly built upon the vision transformers, which suggests that self-supervised visual representations can be done by masking input image parts while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yunjie Tian , Lingxi Xie , Jiemin Fang , Mengnan Shi , Junran Peng , Xiaopeng Zhang , Jianbin Jiao , Qi Tian , Qixiang Ye

Masked image modeling (MIM) with transformer backbones has recently been exploited as a powerful self-supervised pre-training technique. The existing MIM methods adopt the strategy to mask random patches of the image and reconstruct the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Zhaohu Xing , Lei Zhu , Lequan Yu , Zhiheng Xing , Liang Wan

In Masked Image Modeling (MIM), two primary methods exist: Pixel MIM and Latent MIM, each utilizing different reconstruction targets, raw pixels and latent representations, respectively. Pixel MIM tends to capture low-level visual details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Junmyeong Lee , Eui Jun Hwang , Sukmin Cho , Jong C. Park

Large language models (LLM) trained using the next-token-prediction objective, such as GPT3 and PaLM, have revolutionized natural language processing in recent years by showing impressive zero-shot and few-shot capabilities across a wide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Hao Liu , Xinyang Geng , Lisa Lee , Igor Mordatch , Sergey Levine , Sharan Narang , Pieter Abbeel

Autoregressive (AR) models have shown great promise in image generation, yet they face a fundamental inefficiency stemming from their core component: a vast, unstructured vocabulary of visual tokens. This conventional approach treats tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Lixuan He , Shikang Zheng , Linfeng Zhang

Diffusion probabilistic models have generated high quality image synthesis recently. However, one pain point is the notorious inference to gradually obtain clear images with thousands of steps, which is time consuming compared to other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Gang Chen