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With the rapid development of text-to-vision generation diffusion models, classifier-free guidance has emerged as the most prevalent method for conditioning. However, this approach inherently requires twice as many steps for model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Huixuan Zhang , Junzhe Zhang , Xiaojun Wan

Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) has emerged as an effective solution for adapting Vision Transformers (ViT) to distribution shifts without additional training data. However, existing TTA methods often incur substantial computational overhead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yizhe Xiong , Zihan Zhou , Yiwen Liang , Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Tianxiang Hao , Fan Zhang , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

This paper presents a novel approach for denoising Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) patterns using diffusion models. We propose a two-stage training process with a UNet-based architecture, incorporating an auxiliary regression head…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Nikolay Falaleev , Nikolai Orlov

Diffusion- and flow-based models usually allocate compute uniformly across space, updating all patches with the same timestep and number of function evaluations. While convenient, this ignores the heterogeneity of natural images: some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Johannes Schusterbauer , Ming Gui , Yusong Li , Pingchuan Ma , Felix Krause , Björn Ommer

Recently large-scale language-image models (e.g., text-guided diffusion models) have considerably improved the image generation capabilities to generate photorealistic images in various domains. Based on this success, current image editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Wenkai Dong , Song Xue , Xiaoyue Duan , Shumin Han

Text-to-image diffusion models have recently received a lot of interest for their astonishing ability to produce high-fidelity images from text only. However, achieving one-shot generation that aligns with the user's intent is nearly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Manuel Brack , Felix Friedrich , Dominik Hintersdorf , Lukas Struppek , Patrick Schramowski , Kristian Kersting

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

Test-time adaptation enables models to adapt to evolving domains. However, balancing the tradeoff between preserving knowledge and adapting to domain shifts remains challenging for model adaptation methods, since adapting to domain shifts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Gabriel Tjio , Jie Zhang , Xulei Yang , Yun Xing , Nhat Chung , Xiaofeng Cao , Ivor W. Tsang , Chee Keong Kwoh , Qing Guo

Diffusion models have achieved impressive results in generating high-quality images. Yet, they often struggle to faithfully align the generated images with the input prompts. This limitation is associated with synchronous denoising, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zijing Hu , Yunze Tong , Fengda Zhang , Junkun Yuan , Jun Xiao , Kun Kuang

Precise control over language model generation is vital for ensuring both safety and reliability. Although prompt engineering and steering are commonly used to intervene in model behaviors, the vast number of parameters in models often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Mengru Wang , Ziwen Xu , Shengyu Mao , Shumin Deng , Zhaopeng Tu , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

The increasing deployment of deep learning systems requires systematic evaluation of their reliability in real-world scenarios. Traditional gradient-based adversarial attacks introduce small perturbations that rarely correspond to realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Oliver Weißl , Vincenzo Riccio , Severin Kacianka , Andrea Stocco

This paper identifies significant redundancy in the query-key interactions within self-attention mechanisms of diffusion transformer models, particularly during the early stages of denoising diffusion steps. In response to this observation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yifan Pu , Zhuofan Xia , Jiayi Guo , Dongchen Han , Qixiu Li , Duo Li , Yuhui Yuan , Ji Li , Yizeng Han , Shiji Song , Gao Huang , Xiu Li

Diffusion models are instrumental in text-to-audio (TTA) generation. Unfortunately, they suffer from slow inference due to an excessive number of queries to the underlying denoising network per generation. To address this bottleneck, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yatong Bai , Trung Dang , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida , Somayeh Sojoudi

In this paper, we present a novel paradigm to enhance the ability of object detector, e.g., expanding categories or improving detection performance, by training on synthetic dataset generated from diffusion models. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chengjian Feng , Yujie Zhong , Zequn Jie , Weidi Xie , Lin Ma

Token-level adaptive computation seeks to reduce inference cost by allocating more computation to harder tokens and less to easier ones. However, prior work is primarily evaluated on natural-language benchmarks using task-level metrics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ibraheem Muhammad Moosa , Suhas Lohit , Ye Wang , Moitreya Chatterjee , Wenpeng Yin

With the availability of powerful text-to-image diffusion models, recent works have explored the use of synthetic data to improve image classification performances. These works show that it can effectively augment or even replace real data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Perla Doubinsky , Nicolas Audebert , Michel Crucianu , Hervé Le Borgne

Diffusion models are generative models with impressive text-to-image synthesis capabilities and have spurred a new wave of creative methods for classical machine learning tasks. However, the best way to harness the perceptual knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Neehar Kondapaneni , Markus Marks , Manuel Knott , Rogerio Guimaraes , Pietro Perona

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in high-fidelity image and video generation but suffer from expensive inference due to their iterative denoising structure. While prior methods accelerate sampling by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Dong Liu , Yanxuan Yu , Ben Lengerich , Ying Nian Wu

Text-to-image diffusion models often exhibit biases toward specific demographic groups, such as generating more males than females when prompted to generate images of engineers, raising ethical concerns and limiting their adoption. In this…

In this study, we investigate leveraging cross-attention control for efficient audio editing within auto-regressive models. Inspired by image editing methodologies, we develop a Prompt-to-Prompt-like approach that guides edits through cross…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Vassilis Sioros , Alexandros Potamianos , Giorgos Paraskevopoulos