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Text-to-image diffusion models often struggle to achieve accurate semantic alignment between generated images and text prompts while maintaining efficiency for deployment on resource-constrained hardware. Existing approaches either incur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Ziji Lu

In this work, we introduce NoiseQuery as a novel method for enhanced noise initialization in versatile goal-driven text-to-image (T2I) generation. Specifically, we propose to leverage an aligned Gaussian noise as implicit guidance to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Ruoyu Wang , Huayang Huang , Ye Zhu , Olga Russakovsky , Yu Wu

Sparse recovery principles play an important role in solving many nonlinear ill-posed inverse problems. We investigate a variational framework with support Oracle for compressed sensing sparse reconstructions, where the available…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Damiana Lazzaro , Serena Morigi , Luca Ratti

Recent strides in the development of diffusion models, exemplified by advancements such as Stable Diffusion, have underscored their remarkable prowess in generating visually compelling images. However, the imperative of achieving a seamless…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Xiefan Guo , Jinlin Liu , Miaomiao Cui , Jiankai Li , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang

Latent flow matching for image generation usually transports Gaussian noise to variational autoencoder latents along linear paths. Both endpoints, however, concentrate in thin spherical shells, and a Euclidean chord leaves those shells even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tuna Han Salih Meral , Kaan Oktay , Hidir Yesiltepe , Adil Kaan Akan , Pinar Yanardag

With the rapid advances in diffusion models, generating decent images from text prompts is no longer challenging. The key to text-to-image generation is how to optimize the results of a text-to-image generation model so that they can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xiwen Wang , Jizhe Zhou , Xuekang Zhu , Cheng Li , Mao Li

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art image generation. However, the random Gaussian noise used to start the diffusion process influences the final output, causing variations in image quality and prompt adherence. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Harvey Mannering , Zhiwu Huang , Adam Prugel-Bennett

Generating multiple distinct subjects remains a challenge for existing text-to-image diffusion models. Complex prompts often lead to subject leakage, causing inaccuracies in quantities, attributes, and visual features. Preventing leakage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Omer Dahary , Yehonathan Cohen , Or Patashnik , Kfir Aberman , Daniel Cohen-Or

This study addresses the issues of semantic entanglement, unclear label structure, and insufficient feature representation in few-shot text classification, and proposes an optimization framework based on structured prompts to enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Jiasen Zheng , Zijun Zhou , Huajun Zhang , Junjiang Lin , Jingyun Jia , Qi Wang

In text-to-image generation, different initial noises induce distinct denoising paths with a pretrained Stable Diffusion (SD) model. While this pattern could output diverse images, some of them may fail to align well with the prompt.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yunze Tong , Didi Zhu , Zijing Hu , Jinluan Yang , Ziyu Zhao

Sparse-view novel view synthesis is fundamentally ill-posed due to severe geometric ambiguity. Current methods are caught in a trade-off: regressive models are geometrically faithful but incomplete, whereas generative models can complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Atakan Topaloglu , Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Nassir Navab , A. Murat Tekalp , Federico Tombari

This work proposes a universal and adaptive second-order method for minimizing second-order smooth, convex functions. Our algorithm achieves $O(\sigma / \sqrt{T})$ convergence when the oracle feedback is stochastic with variance $\sigma^2$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Kimon Antonakopoulos , Ali Kavis , Volkan Cevher

Text-to-image diffusion model is a popular paradigm that synthesizes personalized images by providing a text prompt and a random Gaussian noise. While people observe that some noises are ``golden noises'' that can achieve better text-image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zikai Zhou , Shitong Shao , Lichen Bai , Shufei Zhang , Zhiqiang Xu , Bo Han , Zeke Xie

We consider minimizing a smooth and strongly convex objective function using a stochastic Newton method. At each iteration, the algorithm is given an oracle access to a stochastic estimate of the Hessian matrix. The oracle model includes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Sen Na , Michał Dereziński , Michael W. Mahoney

This paper introduces the first gradient-based framework for prompt optimization in text-to-image diffusion models. We formulate prompt engineering as a discrete optimization problem over the language space. Two major challenges arise in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Ruochen Wang , Ting Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Boqing Gong

Zeroth-order optimization, which does not use derivative information, is one of the significant research areas in the field of mathematical optimization and machine learning. Although various studies have explored zeroth-order algorithms,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Ryota Nozawa , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

Leveraging the visual priors of pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models offers a promising solution to enhance zero-shot generalization in dense prediction tasks. However, existing methods often uncritically use the original diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jing He , Haodong Li , Wei Yin , Yixun Liang , Leheng Li , Kaiqiang Zhou , Hongbo Zhang , Bingbing Liu , Ying-Cong Chen

Diffusion models have achieved impressive success in generating photorealistic images, but challenges remain in ensuring precise semantic alignment with input prompts. Optimizing the initial noisy latent offers a more efficient alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Boming Miao , Chunxiao Li , Xiaoxiao Wang , Andi Zhang , Rui Sun , Zizhe Wang , Yao Zhu

Algorithms for bandit convex optimization and online learning often rely on constructing noisy gradient estimates, which are then used in appropriately adjusted first-order algorithms, replacing actual gradients. Depending on the properties…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xiaowei Hu , Prashanth L. A. , András György , Csaba Szepesvári

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting have significantly improved the efficiency and quality of dense semantic SLAM. However, previous methods are generally constrained by limited-category pre-trained classifiers and implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Dianyi Yang , Yu Gao , Xihan Wang , Yufeng Yue , Yi Yang , Mengyin Fu
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