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Long-term action anticipation has become an important task for many applications such as autonomous driving and human-robot interaction. Unlike short-term anticipation, predicting more actions into the future imposes a real challenge with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Olga Zatsarynna , Emad Bahrami , Yazan Abu Farha , Gianpiero Francesca , Juergen Gall

Despite recent advances, diffusion-based text-to-image models still struggle with accurate text rendering. Several studies have proposed fine-tuning or training-free refinement methods for accurate text rendering. However, the critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Kanghyun Baek , Sangyub Lee , Jin Young Choi , Jaewoo Song , Daemin Park , Jooyoung Choi , Chaehun Shin , Bohyung Han , Sungroh Yoon

In recent years, generative pre-trained paradigms such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision Models (LVMs) have achieved revolutionary advancements and widespread real-world applications. Particularly, the emergence of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jiarui Yang , Tao Dai , Naiqi Li , Junxi Wu , Peiyuan Liu , Jinmin Li , Jigang Bao , Haigang Zhang , Shutao Xia

Diffusion models have enabled the generation of high-quality images with a strong focus on realism and textual fidelity. Yet, large-scale text-to-image models, such as Stable Diffusion, struggle to generate images where foreground objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ryugo Morita , Stanislav Frolov , Brian Bernhard Moser , Takahiro Shirakawa , Ko Watanabe , Andreas Dengel , Jinjia Zhou

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in generating high-fidelity images but typically suffer from inefficient sampling. Many solver designs and noise scheduling strategies have been proposed to dramatically improve…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-01 Tianrong Chen , Huangjie Zheng , David Berthelot , Jiatao Gu , Josh Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative models for graph generation, yet their use for conditional graph generation remains a fundamental challenge. In particular, guiding diffusion models on graphs under arbitrary reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Victor M. Tenorio , Nicolas Zilberstein , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

Model-free reinforcement learning has emerged as a powerful method for developing robust robot control policies capable of navigating through complex and unstructured terrains. The effectiveness of these methods hinges on two essential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Youwei Yu , Junhong Xu , Lantao Liu

Spatio-temporal modeling is foundational for smart city applications, yet it is often hindered by data scarcity in many cities and regions. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel generative pre-training framework, GPD, for spatio-temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuan Yuan , Chenyang Shao , Jingtao Ding , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Diffusion models have emerged as a formidable tool for training-free conditional generation.However, a key hurdle in inference-time guidance techniques is the need for compute-heavy backpropagation through the diffusion network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Vishal M Patel

Denoising diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images conditioned on text prompts, yet their effectiveness heavily relies on careful guidance during the sampling process. Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) provides a widely used…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Shai Yehezkel , Omer Dahary , Andrey Voynov , Daniel Cohen-Or

Autoregressive Transformer models have demonstrated impressive performance in video generation, but their sequential token-by-token decoding process poses a major bottleneck, particularly for long videos represented by tens of thousands of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yang Ye , Junliang Guo , Haoyu Wu , Tianyu He , Tim Pearce , Tabish Rashid , Katja Hofmann , Jiang Bian

We propose a novel method for simulating conditioned diffusion processes (diffusion bridges) in Euclidean spaces. By training a neural network to approximate bridge dynamics, our approach eliminates the need for computationally intensive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-23 Gefan Yang , Frank van der Meulen , Stefan Sommer

Diffusion models are the mainstream approach for time series generation tasks. However, existing diffusion models for time series generation require retraining the entire framework to introduce specific conditional guidance. There also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mingchun Sun , Rongqiang Zhao , Hengrui Hu , Songyu Ding , Jie Liu

We present an novel framework for efficiently and effectively extending the powerful continuous diffusion processes to discrete modeling. Previous approaches have suffered from the discrepancy between discrete data and continuous modeling.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yuxuan Gu , Xiaocheng Feng , Lei Huang , Yingsheng Wu , Zekun Zhou , Weihong Zhong , Kun Zhu , Bing Qin

Machine learning models struggle with generalization when encountering out-of-distribution (OOD) samples with unexpected distribution shifts. For vision tasks, recent studies have shown that test-time adaptation employing diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yun-Yun Tsai , Fu-Chen Chen , Albert Y. C. Chen , Junfeng Yang , Che-Chun Su , Min Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo

Acquiring high-quality data for training discriminative models is a crucial yet challenging aspect of building effective predictive systems. In this paper, we present Diffusion Inversion, a simple yet effective method that leverages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yongchao Zhou , Hshmat Sahak , Jimmy Ba

In this paper, we propose Tortoise and Hare Guidance (THG), a training-free strategy that accelerates diffusion sampling while maintaining high-fidelity generation. We demonstrate that the noise estimate and the additional guidance term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yunghee Lee , Byeonghyun Pak , Junwha Hong , Hoseong Kim

Diffusion models have been demonstrated as powerful deep learning tools for image generation in CT reconstruction and restoration. Recently, diffusion posterior sampling, where a score-based diffusion prior is combined with a likelihood…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Shudong Li , Xiao Jiang , Matthew Tivnan , Grace J. Gang , Yuan Shen , J. Webster Stayman

Compositional diffusion planning generates long-horizon trajectories by stitching together overlapping short-horizon segments through score composition. However, when local plan distributions are multimodal, existing compositional methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Kyowoon Lee , Yunhao Luo , Anh Tong , Jaesik Choi

We propose Guided-TTS, a high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) model that does not require any transcript of target speaker using classifier guidance. Guided-TTS combines an unconditional diffusion probabilistic model with a separately trained…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Heeseung Kim , Sungwon Kim , Sungroh Yoon