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As a highly expressive generative model, diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional success across various domains, including image generation, natural language processing, and combinatorial optimization. However, as data distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Myunsoo Kim , Donghyeon Ki , Seong-Woong Shim , Byung-Jun Lee

This tutorial provides an in-depth guide on inference-time guidance and alignment methods for optimizing downstream reward functions in diffusion models. While diffusion models are renowned for their generative modeling capabilities,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Masatoshi Uehara , Yulai Zhao , Chenyu Wang , Xiner Li , Aviv Regev , Sergey Levine , Tommaso Biancalani

Recent work showed that large diffusion models can be reused as highly precise monocular depth estimators by casting depth estimation as an image-conditional image generation task. While the proposed model achieved state-of-the-art results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Gonzalo Martin Garcia , Karim Knaebel , Christian Schmidt , Daan de Geus , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe

Without using explicit reward, direct preference optimization (DPO) employs paired human preference data to fine-tune generative models, a method that has garnered considerable attention in large language models (LLMs). However, exploration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yunhong Lu , Qichao Wang , Hengyuan Cao , Xierui Wang , Xiaoyin Xu , Min Zhang

Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive models in language modeling, offering the advantages of parallel decoding and bidirectional context processing within a simple yet effective framework.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jaehoon Yoo , Wonjung Kim , Chanhyuk Lee , Seunghoon Hong

Deploying language models often requires navigating accuracy vs. performance trade-offs to meet latency constraints while preserving utility. Traditional model distillation reduces size but incurs substantial costs through training separate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Andrea Gurioli , Federico Pennino , João Monteiro , Maurizio Gabbrielli

Step distillation has become a leading technique for accelerating diffusion models, among which Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) and Consistency Distillation are two representative paradigms. While consistency methods enforce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tao Liu , Hao Yan , Mengting Chen , Taihang Hu , Zhengrong Yue , Zihao Pan , Jinsong Lan , Xiaoyong Zhu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Zheng , Yaxing Wang

Recent diffusion-based methods for material transfer rely on image fine-tuning or complex architectures with assistive networks, but face challenges including text dependency, extra computational costs, and feature misalignment. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Nisha Huang , Henglin Liu , Yizhou Lin , Kaer Huang , Chubin Chen , Jie Guo , Tong-Yee Lee , Xiu Li

Distilled autoregressive diffusion models facilitate real-time short video synthesis but suffer from severe error accumulation during long-sequence generation. While existing Test-Time Optimization (TTO) methods prove effective for images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xunzhi Xiang , Zixuan Duan , Guiyu Zhang , Haiyu Zhang , Zhe Gao , Junta Wu , Shaofeng Zhang , Tengfei Wang , Qi Fan , Chunchao Guo

Generative modelling paradigms based on denoising diffusion processes have emerged as a leading candidate for conditional sampling in inverse problems. In many real-world applications, we often have access to large, expensively trained…

Multivariate long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) supports critical applications such as traffic-flow management, solar-power scheduling, and electricity-transformer monitoring. The existing LTSF paradigms follow a three-stage pipeline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hyekyung Yoon , Minhyuk Lee , Imseung Park , Myungjoo Kang

Recent diffusion distillation methods have achieved remarkable progress, enabling high-quality ${\sim}4$-step sampling for large-scale text-conditional image and video diffusion models. However, further reducing the number of sampling steps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Nikita Starodubcev , Ilya Drobyshevskiy , Denis Kuznedelev , Artem Babenko , Dmitry Baranchuk

Diffusion-based text-to-image generation models have significantly advanced the field of art content synthesis. However, current portrait stylization methods generally require either model fine-tuning based on examples or the employment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jin Liu , Huaibo Huang , Jie Cao , Ran He

While deep learning techniques have proven successful in image-related tasks, the exponentially increased data storage and computation costs become a significant challenge. Dataset distillation addresses these challenges by synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Zhe Li , Weitong Zhang , Sarah Cechnicka , Bernhard Kainz

Real-time interactive video generation requires low-latency, streaming, and controllable rollout. Existing autoregressive (AR) diffusion distillation methods have achieved strong results in the chunk-wise 4-step regime by distilling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Min Zhao , Hongzhou Zhu , Kaiwen Zheng , Zihan Zhou , Bokai Yan , Xinyuan Li , Xiao Yang , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

Flow-matching models have recently emerged as a powerful framework for continuous generative modeling, including 3D point cloud synthesis. However, their deployment is limited by the need for multiple sequential sampling steps at inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Elaheh Akbari , Shansita Sharma , Ping He , Ahmadreza Moradipari , Kyungtae Han , Hamed Pirsiavash , Yikun Bai , Soheil Kolouri

Recent advances in diffusion generative models have yielded remarkable progress. While the quality of generated content continues to improve, these models have grown considerably in size and complexity. This increasing computational burden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Reza Shirkavand , Peiran Yu , Shangqian Gao , Gowthami Somepalli , Tom Goldstein , Heng Huang

We propose enhancements to score-based generative modeling techniques for low-latency pilot-based channel estimation in a point-to-point single-carrier multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless system. Building on recent advances in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Florian Strasser , Marion Bäro , Wolfgang Utschick

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable generation quality, but they suffer from significant inference cost due to their reliance on multiple sequential denoising steps, motivating recent efforts to distill this inference process into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zihan Yang , Shuyuan Tu , Licheng Zhang , Qi Dai , Yu-Gang Jiang , Zuxuan Wu

Machine Learning models should ideally be compact and robust. Compactness provides efficiency and comprehensibility whereas robustness provides resilience. Both topics have been studied in recent years but in isolation. Here we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Omri Armstrong , Ran Gilad-Bachrach
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