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The conditional text-to-image diffusion models have garnered significant attention in recent years. However, the precision of these models is often compromised mainly for two reasons, ambiguous condition input and inadequate condition…

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The escalating demand for medical image interpretation underscores the critical need for advanced artificial intelligence solutions to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of radiological diagnoses. This paper introduces CXR-PathFinder, a…

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Autoregressive vision-language models (VLMs) deliver strong multimodal capability, but their token-by-token decoding imposes a fundamental inference bottleneck. Diffusion VLMs offer a more parallel decoding paradigm, yet directly converting…

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Text to image latent diffusion models have recently advanced medical image synthesis, but applications to 3D CT generation remain limited. Existing approaches rely on simplified prompts, neglecting the rich semantic detail in full radiology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Sina Amirrajab , Zohaib Salahuddin , Sheng Kuang , Henry C. Woodruff , Philippe Lambin

Diffusion models excel at producing high-quality samples but naively require hundreds of iterations, prompting multiple attempts to distill the generation process into a faster network. However, many existing approaches suffer from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Zhengyang Geng , Ashwini Pokle , J. Zico Kolter

Chest X-ray report generation aims to reduce radiologists' workload by automatically producing high-quality preliminary reports. A critical yet underexplored aspect of this task is the effective use of patient-specific prior knowledge --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Kang Liu , Zhuoqi Ma , Zikang Fang , Yunan Li , Kun Xie , Qiguang Miao

Diffusion language models enable parallel token generation through block-wise decoding, but their irreversible commitments can lead to stagnation, where the reverse diffusion process fails to make further progress under a suboptimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xinyun Wang , Min Zhang , Sen Cui , Zhikang Chen , Bo Jiang , Kun Kuang , Mingbao Lin

We present the vector quantized diffusion (VQ-Diffusion) model for text-to-image generation. This method is based on a vector quantized variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE) whose latent space is modeled by a conditional variant of the recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Shuyang Gu , Dong Chen , Jianmin Bao , Fang Wen , Bo Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Lu Yuan , Baining Guo

A chest X-ray radiology report describes abnormal findings not only from X-ray obtained at current examination, but also findings on disease progression or change in device placement with reference to the X-ray from previous examination.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Zhichuan Wang , Kinhei Lee , Qiao Deng , Tiffany Y. So , Wan Hang Chiu , Yeung Yu Hui , Bingjing Zhou , Edward S. Hui

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enabled unified understanding across text and images, yet equipping these models with robust image generation capabilities remains challenging. Existing approaches often rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Xiangyi Chen , Théophane Vallaeys , Maha Elbayad , John Nguyen , Jakob Verbeek

Diffusion distillation is central to accelerating image and video generation, yet existing methods are fundamentally limited by the denoising process, where step reduction has largely saturated. Partial timestep low-resolution generation…

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Autoregressive (AR) Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant success across numerous tasks. However, the AR modeling paradigm presents certain limitations; for instance, contemporary autoregressive LLMs are trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Justin Deschenaux , Caglar Gulcehre

Recent transformer-based models for 3D Human Mesh Recovery (HMR) have achieved strong performance but often suffer from high computational cost and complexity due to deep transformer architectures and redundant tokens. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Soroush Mehraban , Andrea Iaboni , Babak Taati

Electroencephalogram (EEG)-to-text remains challenging due to high-dimensional noise, subject variability, and error accumulation in autoregressive decoding. We introduce DELTA, which pairs a Residual Vector Quantization (RVQ) EEG tokenizer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Mingyu Jeon , Hyobin Kim

Unlike autoregressive language models, which terminate variable-length generation upon predicting an End-of-Sequence (EoS) token, Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) operate over a fixed maximum-length context window for a predetermined number…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Vittorio Rossi , Giacomo Cirò , Davide Beltrame , Luca Gandolfi , Paul Röttger , Dirk Hovy

Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have made significant strides in high-quality image generation. However, the multi-step denoising process often results in considerable computational overhead, impeding deployment on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yu-Shan Tai , An-Yeu , Wu

Latent Diffusion Models have shown remarkable results in text-guided image synthesis in recent years. In the domain of natural (RGB) images, recent works have shown that such models can be adapted to various vision-language downstream tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Konstantinos Vilouras , Ilias Stogiannidis , Junyu Yan , Alison Q. O'Neil , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

One of the main drawback of diffusion models is the slow inference time for image generation. Among the most successful approaches to addressing this problem are distillation methods. However, these methods require considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Senmao Li , Taihang Hu , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Tao Liu , Linxuan Li , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jian Yang

Any-to-any singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to transfer a target singer's timbre to other songs using a short voice sample. However many diffusion model based any-to-any SVC methods, which have achieved impressive results, usually…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Shihao Chen , Yu Gu , Jianwei Cui , Jie Zhang , Rilin Chen , Lirong Dai

Vision--language models (VLMs) for radiology report generation (RRG) can produce long-form chest CT reports from volumetric scans and show strong potential to improve radiology workflow efficiency and consistency. However, existing methods…

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