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Current image captioning works usually focus on generating descriptions in an autoregressive manner. However, there are limited works that focus on generating descriptions non-autoregressively, which brings more decoding diversity. Inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yufeng He , Zefan Cai , Xu Gan , Baobao Chang

Generating realistic sparse multi-category 3D voxel structures is difficult due to the cubic memory scaling of voxel structures and moreover the significant class imbalance caused by sparsity. We introduce Scaffold Diffusion, a generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Justin Jung

In the realm of high-resolution (HR), fine-grained image segmentation, the primary challenge is balancing broad contextual awareness with the precision required for detailed object delineation, capturing intricate details and the finest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qian Yu , Peng-Tao Jiang , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Bo Li , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Molecule generation is a very important practical problem, with uses in drug discovery and material design, and AI methods promise to provide useful solutions. However, existing methods for molecule generation focus either on 2D graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Chenqing Hua , Sitao Luan , Minkai Xu , Rex Ying , Jie Fu , Stefano Ermon , Doina Precup

Masked Discrete Diffusion Models (MDMs) have achieved strong performance across a wide range of multimodal tasks, including image understanding, generation, and editing. However, their inference speed remains suboptimal due to the need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Shufan Li , Jiuxiang Gu , Kangning Liu , Zhe Lin , Zijun Wei , Aditya Grover , Jason Kuen

Generative models have achieved success in producing semantically plausible 2D images, but it remains challenging in 3D generation due to the absence of spatial geometry constraints. Typically, existing methods utilize geometric features as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haonan Wang , Hanyu Zhou , Haoyue Liu , Tao Gu , Luxin Yan

This paper explores image modeling from the frequency space and introduces DCTdiff, an end-to-end diffusion generative paradigm that efficiently models images in the discrete cosine transform (DCT) space. We investigate the design space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Mang Ning , Mingxiao Li , Jianlin Su , Haozhe Jia , Lanmiao Liu , Martin Beneš , Wenshuo Chen , Albert Ali Salah , Itir Onal Ertugrul

Recent endeavors in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) aim to unify visual comprehension and generation by combining LLM and diffusion models, the state-of-the-art in each task, respectively. Existing approaches rely on spatial visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kaihang Pan , Wang Lin , Zhongqi Yue , Tenglong Ao , Liyu Jia , Wei Zhao , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Hanwang Zhang

Most 3D generation research focuses on up-projecting 2D foundation models into the 3D space, either by minimizing 2D Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) loss or fine-tuning on multi-view datasets. Without explicit 3D priors, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Lihe Ding , Shaocong Dong , Zhanpeng Huang , Zibin Wang , Yiyuan Zhang , Kaixiong Gong , Dan Xu , Tianfan Xue

We present a cascaded diffusion model based on a part-level implicit 3D representation. Our model achieves state-of-the-art generation quality and also enables part-level shape editing and manipulation without any additional training in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Juil Koo , Seungwoo Yoo , Minh Hieu Nguyen , Minhyuk Sung

In generative models, two paradigms have gained attraction in various applications: next-set prediction-based Masked Generative Models and next-noise prediction-based Non-Autoregressive Models, e.g., Diffusion Models. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

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…

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Multimodal-driven talking face generation refers to animating a portrait with the given pose, expression, and gaze transferred from the driving image and video, or estimated from the text and audio. However, existing methods ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Chao Xu , Shaoting Zhu , Junwei Zhu , Tianxin Huang , Jiangning Zhang , Ying Tai , Yong Liu

Autoregressive language models dominate modern text generation, yet their sequential nature introduces fundamental limitations: decoding is slow, and maintaining global coherence remains challenging. Diffusion models offer a promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Viacheslav Meshchaninov , Egor Chimbulatov , Alexander Shabalin , Aleksandr Abramov , Dmitry Vetrov

Can continuous diffusion models bring the same performance breakthrough on natural language they did for image generation? To circumvent the discrete nature of text data, we can simply project tokens in a continuous space of embeddings, as…

Equivocal 3D lesion segmentation exhibits high inter-observer variability. Conventional deterministic models ignore this aleatoric uncertainty, producing over-confident masks that obscure clinical risks. Conversely, while generative methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chao Wu , Kangxian Xie , Mingchen Gao

Diffusion models, though originally designed for generative tasks, have demonstrated impressive self-supervised representation learning capabilities. A particularly intriguing phenomenon in these models is the emergence of unimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xiao Li , Zekai Zhang , Xiang Li , Siyi Chen , Zhihui Zhu , Peng Wang , Qing Qu

Diffusion models have established themselves as state-of-the-art generative models across various data modalities, including images and videos, due to their ability to accurately approximate complex data distributions. Unlike traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Daniel Wesego

Prompt learning has demonstrated promising results in fine-tuning pre-trained multimodal models. However, the performance improvement is limited when applied to more complex and fine-grained tasks. The reason is that most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Weicai Yan , Wang Lin , Zirun Guo , Ye Wang , Fangming Feng , Xiaoda Yang , Zehan Wang , Tao Jin

Conventional class-guided diffusion models generally succeed in generating images with correct semantic content, but often struggle with texture details. This limitation stems from the usage of class priors, which only provide coarse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaoyu Yue , Zidong Wang , Zeyu Lu , Shuyang Sun , Meng Wei , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai , Luping Zhou