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Diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have shown incredible performance on text-to-image generation. Since text-to-image generation often requires models to generate visual concepts with fine-grained details and attributes specified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Xuehai He , Weixi Feng , Tsu-Jui Fu , Varun Jampani , Arjun Akula , Pradyumna Narayana , Sugato Basu , William Yang Wang , Xin Eric Wang

Deep clustering methods typically rely on a single, well-defined representation for clustering. In contrast, pretrained diffusion models provide abundant and diverse multi-scale representations across network layers and noise timesteps.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Haidong Hu , Xiaoyu Zheng , Jin Zhou , Yingxu Wang , Rui Wang , Pei Dong , Shiyuan Han , Lin Wang , C. L. Philip Chen , Tong Zhang , Yuehui Chen

Accurate medical image segmentation is crucial for precise anatomical delineation. Deep learning models like U-Net have shown great success but depend heavily on large datasets and struggle with domain shifts, complex structures, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hantao Zhang , Yuhe Liu , Jiancheng Yang , Weidong Guo , Xinyuan Wang , Pascal Fua

Erase inpainting, or object removal, aims to precisely remove target objects within masked regions while preserving the overall consistency of the surrounding content. Despite diffusion-based methods have made significant strides in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yi Liu , Hao Zhou , Wenxiang Shang , Ran Lin , Benlei Cui

Generative graph models struggle to scale due to the need to predict the existence or type of edges between all node pairs. To address the resulting quadratic complexity, existing scalable models often impose restrictive assumptions such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yiming Qin , Clement Vignac , Pascal Frossard

Diffusion models (DMs) represent state-of-the-art generative models for continuous inputs. DMs work by constructing a Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) in the input space (ie, position space), and using a neural network to reverse it.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Tianrong Chen , Jiatao Gu , Laurent Dinh , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Joshua Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

Variable selection for high-dimensional, highly correlated data has long been a challenging problem, often yielding unstable and unreliable models. We propose a resample-aggregate framework that exploits diffusion models' ability to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-20 Minjie Wang , Xiaotong Shen , Wei Pan

Diffusion Policy has dominated action generation due to its strong capabilities for modeling multi-modal action distributions, but its multi-step denoising processes make it impractical for real-time visuomotor control. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Kangye Ji , Jianbo Zhou , Yuan Meng , Ye Li , Hanyun Cui , Zhi Wang

This paper proposes ProEdit - a simple yet effective framework for high-quality 3D scene editing guided by diffusion distillation in a novel progressive manner. Inspired by the crucial observation that multi-view inconsistency in scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jun-Kun Chen , Yu-Xiong Wang

Existing fusion methods are tailored for high-quality images but struggle with degraded images captured under harsh circumstances, thus limiting the practical potential of image fusion. This work presents a \textbf{D}egradation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Linfeng Tang , Chunyu Li , Guoqing Wang , Yixuan Yuan , Jiayi Ma

Diffusion models achieve remarkable generation quality but suffer from computational intensive sampling due to suboptimal step discretization. While existing works focus on optimizing denoising directions, we address the principled design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jianning Pei , Han Hu , Shuyang Gu

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) are renowned for their impressive generative performance; however, they are significantly constrained by considerable computational costs due to the quadratic complexity in self-attention and the extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Jiasheng Tang , Fan Wang , Yi Yang

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have emerged as a widely adopted backbone for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet their iterative denoising process incurs high computational costs. Existing training-free acceleration methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hanshuai Cui , Zhiqing Tang , Qianli Ma , Zhi Yao , Weijia Jia

We introduce a novel, training-free method for sampling differentiable representations (diffreps) using pretrained diffusion models. Rather than merely mode-seeking, our method achieves sampling by "pulling back" the dynamics of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yash Savani , Marc Finzi , J. Zico Kolter

Removing degradation from document images not only improves their visual quality and readability, but also enhances the performance of numerous automated document analysis and recognition tasks. However, existing regression-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Zongyuan Yang , Baolin Liu , Yongping Xiong , Lan Yi , Guibin Wu , Xiaojun Tang , Ziqi Liu , Junjie Zhou , Xing Zhang

While diffusion-based image restoration (IR) methods have achieved remarkable success, they are still limited by the low inference speed attributed to the necessity of executing hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

Diffusion models are highly effective at generating high-quality images but pose risks, such as the unintentional generation of NSFW (not safe for work) content. Although various techniques have been proposed to mitigate unwanted influences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Jing Wu , Trung Le , Munawar Hayat , Mehrtash Harandi

Diffusion models have recently shown promise in time series forecasting, particularly for probabilistic predictions. However, they often fail to achieve state-of-the-art point estimation performance compared to regression-based methods.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hang Ding , Xue Wang , Tian Zhou , Tao Yao

Large-scale vision generative models, including diffusion and flow models, have demonstrated remarkable performance in visual generation tasks. However, transferring these pre-trained models to downstream tasks often results in significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Changlin Li , Jiawei Zhang , Zeyi Shi , Zongxin Yang , Zhihui Li , Xiaojun Chang

Structure pruning is an effective method to compress and accelerate neural networks. While filter and channel pruning are preferable to other structure pruning methods in terms of realistic acceleration and hardware compatibility, pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jun-Hyung Park , Yeachan Kim , Junho Kim , Joon-Young Choi , SangKeun Lee