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Adding additional control to pretrained diffusion models has become an increasingly popular research area, with extensive applications in computer vision, reinforcement learning, and AI for science. Recently, several studies have proposed…

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As a new paradigm of visual content generation, autoregressive text-to-image models suffer from slow inference due to their sequential token-by-token decoding process, often requiring thousands of model forward passes to generate a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yao Teng , Fuyun Wang , Xian Liu , Zhekai Chen , Han Shi , Yu Wang , Zhenguo Li , Weiyang Liu , Difan Zou , Xihui Liu

An increasing number of autoregressive models, such as MAR, FlowAR, xAR, and Harmon adopt diffusion sampling to improve the quality of image generation. However, this strategy leads to low inference efficiency, because it usually takes 50…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qinyu Zhao , Jaskirat Singh , Ming Xu , Akshay Asthana , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng

As models increasingly leverage multi-step reasoning strategies to solve complex problems, supervising the logical validity of these intermediate steps has become a critical research challenge. Process reward models address this by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Wei Xiong , Wenting Zhao , Weizhe Yuan , Olga Golovneva , Tong Zhang , Jason Weston , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative techniques for solving inverse problems. Despite their success in a variety of inverse problems in imaging, these models require many steps to converge, leading to slow inference time.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-13 Yaşar Utku Alçalar , Mehmet Akçakaya

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

The rapid advancement of diffusion-based image generators has made it increasingly difficult to distinguish generated from real images. This erodes trust in digital media, making it critical to develop generated image detectors that remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ana Vasilcoiu , Ivona Najdenkoska , Zeno Geradts , Marcel Worring

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) is able to make flexible conditional image generation from prior noise to real data, by introducing an independent noise-aware classifier to provide conditional gradient guidance at each time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Shengming Li , Guangcong Zheng , Hui Wang , Taiping Yao , Yang Chen , Shoudong Ding , Xi Li

Score-based stochastic denoising models have recently been demonstrated as powerful machine learning tools for conditional and unconditional image generation. The existing methods are based on a forward stochastic process wherein the…

By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Dominik Lorenz , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

Score-based generative models have demonstrated significant practical success in data-generating tasks. The models establish a diffusion process that perturbs the ground truth data to Gaussian noise and then learn the reverse process to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ziqing Wen , Xiaoge Deng , Ping Luo , Tao Sun , Dongsheng Li

Diffusion models generate conditional samples by progressively denoising Gaussian noise, yet the denoising trajectory can stall at visually plausible but low-quality outcomes with conditional misalignment or structural artifacts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Shunqi Mao , Wei Guo , Chaoyi Zhang , Jieting Long , Ke Xie , Weidong Cai

Diffusion models, which iteratively denoise data samples to synthesize high-quality outputs, have achieved empirical success across domains. However, optimizing these models for downstream tasks often involves nested bilevel structures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Quan Xiao , Hui Yuan , A F M Saif , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Kompella , Mengdi Wang , Tianyi Chen

Uniform-state discrete diffusion models hold the promise of fast text generation due to their inherent ability to self-correct. However, they are typically outperformed by autoregressive models and masked diffusion models. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Subham Sekhar Sahoo , Justin Deschenaux , Aaron Gokaslan , Guanghan Wang , Justin Chiu , Volodymyr Kuleshov

Generation-driven world models create immersive virtual environments but suffer slow inference due to the iterative nature of diffusion models. While recent advances have improved diffusion model efficiency, directly applying these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Quanjian Song , Xinyu Wang , Donghao Zhou , Jingyu Lin , Cunjian Chen , Yue Ma

Diffusion models achieve remarkable quality in image generation, but at a cost. Iterative denoising requires many time steps to produce high fidelity images. We argue that the denoising process is crucially limited by an accumulation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hui Lu , Albert ali Salah , Ronald Poppe

Diffusion Models have become a cornerstone of modern generative AI for their exceptional generation quality and controllability. However, their inherent \textit{multi-step iterations} and \textit{complex backbone networks} lead to…

Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) must handle complex degradations and inherent reconstruction ambiguities. While generative models have improved perceptual quality, a key trade-off remains with computational cost. One-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yun Kai Zhuang

Generative diffusion models have emerged as leading models in speech and image generation. However, in order to perform well with a small number of denoising steps, a costly tuning of the set of noise parameters is needed. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Robin San-Roman , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

Video generation models have been used as a robot policy to predict the future states of executing a task conditioned on task description and observation. Previous works ignore their high computational cost and long inference time. To…

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