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This paper investigates the role of CLIP image embeddings within the Stable Video Diffusion (SVD) framework, focusing on their impact on video generation quality and computational efficiency. Our findings indicate that CLIP embeddings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ashkan Taghipour , Morteza Ghahremani , Mohammed Bennamoun , Aref Miri Rekavandi , Zinuo Li , Hamid Laga , Farid Boussaid

Due to their capacity to generate novel and high-quality samples, diffusion models have attracted significant research interest in recent years. Notably, the typical training objective of diffusion models, i.e., denoising score matching,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Xiangming Gu , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Chongxuan Li , Min Lin , Ye Wang

The Stable Diffusion model is a prominent text-to-image generation model that relies on a text prompt as its input, which is encoded using the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP). However, text prompts have limitations when it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Yuxuan Ding , Chunna Tian , Haoxuan Ding , Lingqiao Liu

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled image-based question-answering capabilities. However, a key limitation is the use of CLIP as the visual encoder; while it can capture coarse global information, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Vatsal Agarwal , Matthew Gwilliam , Gefen Kohavi , Eshan Verma , Daniel Ulbricht , Abhinav Shrivastava

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been shown to improve zero-shot generalization capabilities of language and vision models. In this paper, we extend CLIP for efficient knowledge distillation, by utilizing embeddings as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Lakshmi Nair

Continual learning -- the ability to acquire knowledge incrementally without forgetting previous skills -- is fundamental to natural intelligence. While the human brain excels at this, artificial neural networks struggle with "catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Aoi Otani

Vision-language models bridge visual and linguistic understanding and have proven to be powerful for video recognition tasks. Existing approaches primarily rely on parameter-efficient fine-tuning of image-text pre-trained models, yet they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Wencheng Zhu , Yuexin Wang , Hongxuan Li , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu

Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality image generation and editing. Many existing approaches rely on text prompts as editing guidance. However, these methods are constrained by the need for manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuanyuan Chang , Yinghua Yao , Tao Qin , Mengmeng Wang , Ivor Tsang , Guang Dai

Despite their success in image generation, diffusion models can memorize training data, raising serious privacy and copyright concerns. Although prior work has sought to characterize, detect, and mitigate memorization, the fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Juyeop Kim , Songkuk Kim , Jong-Seok Lee

Diffusion models, known for their tremendous ability to generate novel and high-quality samples, have recently raised concerns due to their data memorization behavior, which poses privacy risks. Recent approaches for memory mitigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xiao Liu , Xiaoliu Guan , Yu Wu , Jiaxu Miao

We propose CatVersion, an inversion-based method that learns the personalized concept through a handful of examples. Subsequently, users can utilize text prompts to generate images that embody the personalized concept, thereby achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Ruoyu Zhao , Mingrui Zhu , Shiyin Dong , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Understanding the representation shift on Vision Language Models like CLIP under different augmentations provides valuable insights on Mechanistic Interpretability. In this study, we show the shift on CLIP's embeddings on 9 common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ashim Dahal , Saydul Akbar Murad , Nick Rahimi

Can continuous diffusion models bring the same performance breakthrough on natural language they did for image generation? To circumvent the discrete nature of text data, we can simply project tokens in a continuous space of embeddings, as…

Text-to-image diffusion-based generative models have the stunning ability to generate photo-realistic images and achieve state-of-the-art low FID scores on challenging image generation benchmarks. However, one of the primary failure modes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Arman Zarei , Keivan Rezaei , Samyadeep Basu , Mehrdad Saberi , Mazda Moayeri , Priyatham Kattakinda , Soheil Feizi

Continual learning (CL) enables deep networks to acquire new knowledge while avoiding catastrophic forgetting. The powerful generalization ability of pre-trained models (PTMs), such as the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Haodong Lu , Xinyu Zhang , Kristen Moore , Jason Xue , Lina Yao , Anton van den Hengel , Dong Gong

Despite their impressive generative capabilities, text-to-image diffusion models often memorize and replicate training data, prompting serious concerns over privacy and copyright. Recent work has attributed this memorization to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Hyeonggeun Han , Sehwan Kim , Hyungjun Joo , Sangwoo Hong , Jungwoo Lee

In this work, we present compelling evidence that controlling model capacity during fine-tuning can effectively mitigate memorization in diffusion models. Specifically, we demonstrate that adopting Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Raman Dutt , Pedro Sanchez , Ondrej Bohdal , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Timothy Hospedales

The ability of machine learning models to store input information in hidden layer vector embeddings, analogous to the concept of `memory', is widely employed but not well characterized. We find that language model embeddings typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Benjamin L. Badger

Text-to-image diffusion models like Stable Diffusion generate high-quality images from text, but lack a way to inject visual guidance (e.g. sketches, styles) at inference without retraining. Existing methods either require computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Agata Żywot , Iason Skylitsis , Thijmen Nijdam , Zoe Tzifa-Kratira , Derck Prinzhorn , Konrad Szewczyk , Aritra Bhowmik

Recent advancements in diffusion models have showcased their impressive capacity to generate visually striking images. Nevertheless, ensuring a close match between the generated image and the given prompt remains a persistent challenge. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yupeng Zhou , Daquan Zhou , Zuo-Liang Zhu , Yaxing Wang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng