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Diffusion models have revolutionized image generation, yet several challenges restrict their application to large-image domains, such as digital pathology and satellite imagery. Given that it is infeasible to directly train a model on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Srikar Yellapragada , Alexandros Graikos , Kostas Triaridis , Prateek Prasanna , Rajarsi R. Gupta , Joel Saltz , Dimitris Samaras

High-resolution image synthesis remains a core challenge in generative modeling, particularly in balancing computational efficiency with the preservation of fine-grained visual detail. We present Latent Wavelet Diffusion (LWD), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Luigi Sigillo , Shengfeng He , Danilo Comminiello

We argue that diffusion models' success in modeling complex distributions is, for the most part, coming from their input conditioning. This paper investigates the representation used to condition diffusion models from the perspective that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Samuel Lavoie , Michael Noukhovitch , Aaron Courville

Recent image editing models have achieved impressive results while following natural language editing instructions, but they rely on supervised fine-tuning with large datasets of input-target pairs. This is a critical bottleneck, as such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Nupur Kumari , Sheng-Yu Wang , Nanxuan Zhao , Yotam Nitzan , Yuheng Li , Krishna Kumar Singh , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Jun-Yan Zhu , Xun Huang

Despite recent advances, diffusion-based text-to-image models still struggle with accurate text rendering. Several studies have proposed fine-tuning or training-free refinement methods for accurate text rendering. However, the critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Kanghyun Baek , Sangyub Lee , Jin Young Choi , Jaewoo Song , Daemin Park , Jooyoung Choi , Chaehun Shin , Bohyung Han , Sungroh Yoon

3D reconstruction from a single image is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Learning-based methods address its inherent scale ambiguity by leveraging increasingly large labeled and unlabeled datasets, to produce geometric priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Vitor Guizilini , Pavel Tokmakov , Achal Dave , Rares Ambrus

Blind image restoration remains a significant challenge in low-level vision tasks. Recently, denoising diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis. Guided diffusion models, leveraging the potent generative priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jun Xiao , Zihang Lyu , Hao Xie , Cong Zhang , Yakun Ju , Changjian Shui , Kin-Man Lam

In this paper, we introduce a novel dIffusion language modEl pre-training framework for text generation, which we call GENIE. GENIE is a large-scale pretrained diffusion language model that consists of an encoder and a diffusion-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Zhenghao Lin , Yeyun Gong , Yelong Shen , Tong Wu , Zhihao Fan , Chen Lin , Nan Duan , Weizhu Chen

Adapting pretrained diffusion-based generative models for text-driven image editing with negligible tuning overhead has demonstrated remarkable potential. A classical adaptation paradigm, as followed by these methods, first infers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jiahuan Wang , Yuxin Chen , Jun Yu , Guangming Lu , Wenjie Pei

In this work, we propose Dimple, the first Discrete Diffusion Multimodal Large Language Model (DMLLM). We observe that training with a purely discrete diffusion approach leads to significant training instability, suboptimal performance, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Runpeng Yu , Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable high-quality image synthesis while avoiding excessive compute demands by training a diffusion model in a compressed lower-dimensional latent space. Here, we apply the LDM paradigm to high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach , Huan Ling , Tim Dockhorn , Seung Wook Kim , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) techniques attempt to increase the visibility of images captured in low-light scenarios. However, as a result of enhancement, a variety of image degradations such as noise and color bias are revealed.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Savvas Panagiotou , Anna S. Bosman

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced their knowledge and generative capabilities, leading to a surge of interest in leveraging LLMs for high-quality data synthesis. However, synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Ying Zhou , Xinyao Wang , Yulei Niu , Yaojie Shen , Lexin Tang , Fan Chen , Ben He , Le Sun , Longyin Wen

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently been introduced in image deblurring and exhibited promising performance, particularly in terms of details reconstruction. However, the diffusion model requires a large number of inference iterations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang , Ding Liu , Bin Xia , Jinjin Gu , Linghe Kong , Xin Yuan

We introduce Linearly Constrained Diffusion Implicit Models (CDIM), a fast and accurate approach to solving noisy linear inverse problems using diffusion models. Traditional diffusion-based inverse methods rely on numerous projection steps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Vivek Jayaram , Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman , Steven M. Seitz , John Thickstun

Most practical high-resolution text-to-image systems, including latent diffusion and autoregressive models, perform generation in a compact latent space, and a decoder maps the generated latents back to pixels. Yet the latent-to-pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yifan Lu , Qi Wu , Jay Zhangjie Wu , Zian Wang , Huan Ling , Sanja Fidler , Xuanchi Ren

Large-scale pre-training tasks like image classification, captioning, or self-supervised techniques do not incentivize learning the semantic boundaries of objects. However, recent generative foundation models built using text-based latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Koutilya Pnvr , Bharat Singh , Pallabi Ghosh , Behjat Siddiquie , David Jacobs

Image diffusion models, trained on massive image collections, have emerged as the most versatile image generator model in terms of quality and diversity. They support inverting real images and conditional (e.g., text) generation, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Duygu Ceylan , Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Niloy J. Mitra

With recent text-to-image models, anyone can generate deceptively realistic images with arbitrary contents, fueling the growing threat of visual disinformation. A key enabler for generating high-resolution images with low computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Jonas Ricker , Denis Lukovnikov , Asja Fischer

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