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Generative models such as diffusion and flow matching have become dominant paradigms for visuomotor policy learning, yet their reliance on iterative denoising incurs high inference latency incompatible with real-time robotic control. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jiaqi Bai , Jindou Jia , Yuxuan Hu , Gen Li , Xiangyu Chen , Tuo An , Kuangji Zuo , Jianfei Yang

We present a mechanism to steer the sampling diversity of denoising diffusion and flow matching models, allowing users to sample from a sharper or broader distribution than the training distribution. We build on the observation that these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yanbo Xu , Yu Wu , Sungjae Park , Zhizhuo Zhou , Shubham Tulsiani

This paper explores the challenges and benefits of a trainable destruction process in diffusion samplers -- diffusion-based generative models trained to sample an unnormalised density without access to data samples. Contrary to the majority…

While training on samples drawn from independent and identical distribution has been a de facto paradigm for optimizing image classification networks, humans learn new concepts in an easy-to-hard manner and on the selected examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Bowen Cheng , Yunchao Wei , Jiahui Yu , Shiyu Chang , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-Mei Hwu , Thomas S. Huang , Humphrey Shi

Flow-matching models deliver state-of-the-art fidelity in image and video generation, but the inherent sequential denoising process renders them slower. Existing acceleration methods like distillation, trajectory truncation, and consistency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Dhruv Bhardwaj , Soumya Roy , Tejas Duseja , Harsh Agarwal , Aashay Sandansing , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

Imitation Learning presents a promising approach for learning generalizable and complex robotic skills. The recently proposed Diffusion Policy generates robot action sequences through a conditional denoising diffusion process, achieving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiu Yuan

Modern video generators still struggle with complex physical dynamics, often falling short of physical realism. Existing approaches address this using external verifiers or additional training on augmented data, which is computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sangwon Jang , Taekyung Ki , Jaehyeong Jo , Saining Xie , Jaehong Yoon , Sung Ju Hwang

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful generative method for synthesizing high-quality and diverse set of images. In this paper, we propose a video generation method based on diffusion models, where the effects of motion are modeled in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel

Recent advancements in diffusion models have revolutionized video generation, enabling the creation of high-quality, temporally consistent videos. However, generating high frame-rate (FPS) videos remains a significant challenge due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Geunmin Hwang , Hyun-kyu Ko , Younghyun Kim , Seungryong Lee , Eunbyung Park

Speculative sampling is a popular technique for accelerating inference in Large Language Models by generating candidate tokens using a fast draft model and accepting or rejecting them based on the target model's distribution. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Valentin De Bortoli , Alexandre Galashov , Arthur Gretton , Arnaud Doucet

Diffusion models are well known for their ability to generate a high-fidelity image for an input prompt through an iterative denoising process. Unfortunately, the high fidelity also comes at a high computational cost due the inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Qinchan Li , Kenneth Chen , Changyue Su , Wittawat Jitkrittum , Qi Sun , Patsorn Sangkloy

Diffusion models have become the dominant tool for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet are critically bottlenecked by their inference speed due to the numerous iterative passes of Diffusion Transformers. To reduce the exhaustive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqi Han , Juntong Shi , Puheng Li , Haotian Ye , Qiushan Guo , Stefano Ermon

Diffusion models generate high-quality synthetic data. They operate by defining a continuous-time forward process which gradually adds Gaussian noise to data until fully corrupted. The corresponding reverse process progressively "denoises"…

Multi-step prediction models, such as diffusion and rectified flow models, have emerged as state-of-the-art solutions for generation tasks. However, these models exhibit higher latency in sampling new frames compared to single-step methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Gaurav Shrivastava , Abhinav Shrivastava

This paper addresses the problem of generating dynamically admissible trajectories for control tasks using diffusion models, particularly in scenarios where the environment is complex and system dynamics are crucial for practical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Darshan Gadginmath , Fabio Pasqualetti

Generating multi-view images based on text or single-image prompts is a critical capability for the creation of 3D content. Two fundamental questions on this topic are what data we use for training and how to ensure multi-view consistency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Qi Zuo , Xiaodong Gu , Lingteng Qiu , Yuan Dong , Zhengyi Zhao , Weihao Yuan , Rui Peng , Siyu Zhu , Zilong Dong , Liefeng Bo , Qixing Huang

Adapting a pretrained diffusion model to new objectives at inference time remains an open problem in generative modeling. Existing steering methods suffer from inaccurate value estimation, especially at high noise levels, which biases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Vineet Jain , Kusha Sareen , Mohammad Pedramfar , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Text-to-3D is an emerging task that allows users to create 3D content with infinite possibilities. Existing works tackle the problem by optimizing a 3D representation with guidance from pre-trained diffusion models. An apparent drawback is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yiji Cheng , Fei Yin , Xiaoke Huang , Xintong Yu , Jiaxiang Liu , Shikun Feng , Yujiu Yang , Yansong Tang

Diffusion-based video generation models have demonstrated remarkable success in obtaining high-fidelity videos through the iterative denoising process. However, these models require multiple denoising steps during sampling, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhixing Zhang , Yanyu Li , Yushu Wu , Yanwu Xu , Anil Kag , Ivan Skorokhodov , Willi Menapace , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Junli Cao , Dimitris Metaxas , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

Generative robot policies such as Flow Matching offer flexible, multi-modal policy learning but are sample-inefficient. Although object-centric policies improve sample efficiency, it does not resolve this limitation. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Jan Ole von Hartz , Lukas Schweizer , Joschka Boedecker , Abhinav Valada