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Emerging Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) have become increasingly utilised because of promising results they have achieved in diverse generative tasks with continuous data, such as image and sound synthesis. Nonetheless, the…

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Vector Quantized-Variational AutoEncoders (VQ-VAE) are generative models based on discrete latent representations of the data, where inputs are mapped to a finite set of learned embeddings.To generate new samples, an autoregressive prior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-04 Max Cohen , Guillaume Quispe , Sylvain Le Corff , Charles Ollion , Eric Moulines

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

Vector quantized diffusion (VQ-Diffusion) is a powerful generative model for text-to-image synthesis, but sometimes can still generate low-quality samples or weakly correlated images with text input. We find these issues are mainly due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Zhicong Tang , Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen

Generative learning models in medical research are crucial in developing training data for deep learning models and advancing diagnostic tools, but the problem of high-quality, diverse images is an open topic of research. Quantum-enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Kübra Yeter-Aydeniz , Nora M. Bauer , Pranay Jain , Max Masnick

Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE) has become a fundamental framework for learning discrete representations in image modeling. However, VQ-VAE models must tokenize entire images using a finite set of codebook vectors, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jaeyung Kim , YoungJoon Yoo

Since 2023, Vector Quantization (VQ)-based discrete generation methods have rapidly dominated human motion generation, primarily surpassing diffusion-based continuous generation methods in standard performance metrics. However, VQ-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Zichong Meng , Yiming Xie , Xiaogang Peng , Zeyu Han , Huaizu Jiang

Existing vector quantization (VQ) based autoregressive models follow a two-stage generation paradigm that first learns a codebook to encode images as discrete codes, and then completes generation based on the learned codebook. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Mengqi Huang , Zhendong Mao , Zhuowei Chen , Yongdong Zhang

Molecular representation learning has become a central approach in AI-driven drug discovery, yet existing molecular tokenizations such as SMILES remain largely syntactic and do not naturally align with chemically meaningful substructures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Takayuki Kimura

Despite the remarkable generative capabilities of diffusion models, their integration into safety-critical or scientifically rigorous applications remains hindered by the need to ensure compliance with stringent physical, structural, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jacob K. Christopher , Michael Cardei , Jinhao Liang , Ferdinando Fioretto

Masked diffusion models have recently emerged as a flexible framework for discrete generative modeling. However, a key limitation of standard masked diffusion is its inability to effectively capture dependencies among tokens that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yichi Zhang , Alex Schwing , Zhizhen Zhao

Learning deep discrete latent presentations offers a promise of better symbolic and summarized abstractions that are more useful to subsequent downstream tasks. Inspired by the seminal Vector Quantized Variational Auto-Encoder (VQ-VAE),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Tung-Long Vuong , Trung Le , He Zhao , Chuanxia Zheng , Mehrtash Harandi , Jianfei Cai , Dinh Phung

Discrete diffusion models have recently shown great promise for modeling complex discrete data, with masked diffusion models (MDMs) offering a compelling trade-off between quality and generation speed. MDMs denoise by progressively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Tianyu Xie , Shuchen Xue , Zijin Feng , Tianyang Hu , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Cheng Zhang

Vector-quantized representations enable powerful discrete generative models but lack semantic structure in token space, limiting interpretable human control. We introduce SOM-VQ, a tokenization method that combines vector quantization with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Alessandro Londei , Denise Lanzieri , Matteo Benati

Standard discrete diffusion models treat all unobserved states identically by mapping them to an absorbing [MASK] token. This creates an 'information void' where semantic information that could be inferred from unmasked tokens is lost…

The de novo generation of molecules with desirable properties is a critical challenge, where diffusion models are computationally intensive and autoregressive models struggle with error propagation. In this work, we introduce the Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haozhuo Zheng , Cheng Wang , Yang Liu

Recent proposals for quantum generative adversarial networks (GANs) suffer from the issue of mode collapse, analogous to classical GANs, wherein the distribution learnt by the GAN fails to capture the high mode complexities of the target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Aaron Mark Thomas , Harry Youel , Sharu Theresa Jose

Learning useful representations without supervision remains a key challenge in machine learning. In this paper, we propose a simple yet powerful generative model that learns such discrete representations. Our model, the Vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Aaron van den Oord , Oriol Vinyals , Koray Kavukcuoglu

Recent deep learning approaches seek to automate CAD creation by representing a model as a sequence of discrete commands and parameters, and then generating them using autoregressive models or continuous diffusion operating in Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Honghu Pan , Xiaoling Luo , Yongyong Chen , Zhenyu He , Pengyang Wang

The integration of Vector Quantised Variational AutoEncoder (VQ-VAE) with autoregressive models as generation part has yielded high-quality results on image generation. However, the autoregressive models will strictly follow the progressive…

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