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Super-resolution (SR) and image generation are important tasks in computer vision and are widely adopted in real-world applications. Most existing methods, however, generate images only at fixed-scale magnification and suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Jinseok Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

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

Video autoencoders compress videos into compact latent representations for efficient reconstruction, playing a vital role in enhancing the quality and efficiency of video generation. However, existing video autoencoders often entangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Cuifeng Shen , Lumin Xu , Xingguo Zhu , Gengdai Liu

Score-based diffusion models provide a powerful way to model images using the gradient of the data distribution. Leveraging the learned score function as a prior, here we introduce a way to sample data from a conditional distribution given…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Hyungjin Chung , Jong Chul Ye

High-resolution video generation, while crucial for digital media and film, is computationally bottlenecked by the quadratic complexity of diffusion models, making practical inference infeasible. To address this, we introduce HiStream, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Haonan Qiu , Shikun Liu , Zijian Zhou , Zhaochong An , Weiming Ren , Zhiheng Liu , Jonas Schult , Sen He , Shoufa Chen , Yuren Cong , Tao Xiang , Ziwei Liu , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua

Masked autoregressive (MAR) models unify the strengths of masked and autoregressive generation by predicting tokens in a fixed order using bidirectional attention for image generation. While effective, MAR models suffer from significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chaoyi Jiang , Sungwoo Kim , Lei Gao , Hossein Entezari Zarch , Won Woo Ro , Murali Annavaram

Deep autoregressive sequence-to-sequence models have demonstrated impressive performance across a wide variety of tasks in recent years. While common architecture classes such as recurrent, convolutional, and self-attention networks make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Mitchell Stern , Noam Shazeer , Jakob Uszkoreit

Arbitrary-scale video super-resolution (AVSR) aims to enhance the resolution of video frames, potentially at various scaling factors, which presents several challenges regarding spatial detail reproduction, temporal consistency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Wei Shang , Dongwei Ren , Wanying Zhang , Yuming Fang , Wangmeng Zuo , Kede Ma

Denoising generative models deliver high-fidelity generation but remain bottlenecked by inference latency due to the many iterative denoiser calls required during sampling. Training-free acceleration methods reduce latency by either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yixiao Wang , Ting Jiang , Zishan Shao , Hancheng Ye , Jingwei Sun , Mingyuan Ma , Jianyi Zhang , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Recent advances in large reconstruction and generative models have significantly improved scene reconstruction and novel view generation. However, due to compute limitations, each inference with these large models is confined to a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shangjin Zhai , Zhichao Ye , Jialin Liu , Weijian Xie , Jiaqi Hu , Zhen Peng , Hua Xue , Danpeng Chen , Xiaomeng Wang , Lei Yang , Nan Wang , Haomin Liu , Guofeng Zhang

Diffusion language models enable any-order generation and bidirectional conditioning, offering appealing flexibility for tasks such as infilling, rewriting, and self-correction. However, their formulation-predicting one part of a sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tianqi Du , Lizhe Fang , Weijie Yang , Chenheng Zhang , Zeming Wei , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

In robotic visuomotor policy learning, diffusion-based models have achieved significant success in improving the accuracy of action trajectory generation compared to traditional autoregressive models. However, they suffer from inefficiency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhefei Gong , Pengxiang Ding , Shangke Lyu , Siteng Huang , Mingyang Sun , Wei Zhao , Zhaoxin Fan , Donglin Wang

Media compression standards have reached a plateau in terms of the rate-distortion-complexity trade-off, limiting the ability to offload expensive AI perception to the cloud in applications like robotics, wearables, and remote sensing.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Dan Jacobellis , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar

Training diffusion models is always a computation-intensive task. In this paper, we introduce a novel speed-up method for diffusion model training, called, which is based on a closer look at time steps. Our key findings are: i) Time steps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kai Wang , Mingjia Shi , Yukun Zhou , Zekai Li , Zhihang Yuan , Yuzhang Shang , Xiaojiang Peng , Hanwang Zhang , Yang You

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in visual content generation but remain challenging to deploy due to their high computational cost during inference. This computational burden primarily arises from the quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ye Tian , Xin Xia , Yuxi Ren , Shanchuan Lin , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao , Yunhai Tong , Ling Yang , Bin Cui

Visual Autoregressive Modeling (VAR) based on next-scale prediction achieves strong generation quality, but their explicit deep stacks fix the amount of computation per scale and inflate memory at high resolutions. We introduce Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pengfei Jiang , Jixiang Luo , Luxi Lin , Zhaohong Huang , Xuelong Li

Processing data at high speeds is becoming increasingly critical as digital economies generate enormous data. The current paradigms for timely data processing are edge computing and data stream processing (DSP). Edge computing places…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Eugene Armah , Linda Amoako Bannning

Video frame interpolation (VFI), which generates intermediate frames from given start and end frames, has become a fundamental function in video generation applications. However, existing generative VFI methods are constrained to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Guozhen Zhang , Haiguang Wang , Chunyu Wang , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Limin Wang

The rapid progress in artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC), especially with diffusion models, has significantly advanced development of high-quality video generation. However, current video diffusion models exhibit demanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zheng Zhan , Yushu Wu , Yifan Gong , Zichong Meng , Zhenglun Kong , Changdi Yang , Geng Yuan , Pu Zhao , Wei Niu , Yanzhi Wang

Diffusion models represent a powerful family of generative models widely used for image and video generation. However, the time-consuming deployment, long inference time, and requirements on large memory hinder their applications on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Kafeng Wang , Jianfei Chen , He Li , Zhenpeng Mi , Jun Zhu