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Imitation learning for robotic manipulation often suffers from limited generalization and data scarcity, especially in complex, long-horizon tasks. In this work, we introduce a hierarchical framework that leverages code-generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Markus Peschl , Pietro Mazzaglia , Daniel Dijkman

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success across various domains. However, their slow generation speed remains a critical challenge. Existing acceleration methods, while aiming to reduce steps, often compromise sample quality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Huiyang Shao , Xin Xia , Yuhong Yang , Yuxi Ren , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao

Diffusion models have achieved impressive success in high-fidelity image generation but suffer from slow sampling due to their inherently iterative denoising process. While recent one-step methods accelerate inference by learning direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hanru Bai , Weiyang Ding , Difan Zou

Flow matching has emerged as a powerful generative framework, with recent few-step methods achieving remarkable inference acceleration. However, we identify a critical yet overlooked limitation: these models suffer from severe diversity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yexiong Lin , Jia Shi , Shanshan Ye , Wanyu Wang , Yu Yao , Tongliang Liu

We introduce StreamDiffusion, a real-time diffusion pipeline designed for interactive image generation. Existing diffusion models are adept at creating images from text or image prompts, yet they often fall short in real-time interaction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Akio Kodaira , Chenfeng Xu , Toshiki Hazama , Takanori Yoshimoto , Kohei Ohno , Shogo Mitsuhori , Soichi Sugano , Hanying Cho , Zhijian Liu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Kurt Keutzer

Diffusion-based planners have gained significant recent attention for their robustness and performance in long-horizon tasks. However, most existing planners rely on a fixed, pre-specified horizon during both training and inference. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ruijia Liu , Ancheng Hou , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

In this work, we present HyperFlow - a novel generative model that leverages hypernetworks to create continuous 3D object representations in a form of lightweight surfaces (meshes), directly out of point clouds. Efficient object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Przemysław Spurek , Maciej Zięba , Jacek Tabor , Tomasz Trzciński

Diffusion models, emerging as powerful deep generative tools, excel in various applications. They operate through a two-steps process: introducing noise into training samples and then employing a model to convert random noise into new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Huijie Zhang , Yifu Lu , Ismail Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Dogyoon Song , Qing Qu

Long-horizon routing tasks of deformable linear objects (DLOs), such as cables and ropes, are common in industrial assembly lines and everyday life. These tasks are particularly challenging because they require robots to manipulate DLO with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mingen Li , Houjian Yu , Yixuan Huang , Youngjin Hong , Hantao Ye , Changhyun Choi

Flow-based generative models have highly desirable properties like exact log-likelihood evaluation and exact latent-variable inference, however they are still in their infancy and have not received as much attention as alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Albert Pumarola , Stefan Popov , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Vittorio Ferrari

Building LiDAR generative models holds promise as powerful data priors for restoration, scene manipulation, and scalable simulation in autonomous mobile robots. In recent years, approaches using diffusion models have emerged, significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kazuto Nakashima , Xiaowen Liu , Tomoya Miyawaki , Yumi Iwashita , Ryo Kurazume

Deep learning-based generative models have emerged as powerful tools for modeling complex data distributions and generating high-fidelity samples, offering a transformative approach to efficiently explore the configuration space of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-12 Xiaoshan Luo , Zhenyu Wang , Qingchang Wang , Jian Lv , Lei Wang , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

Recent advances in motion planning for autonomous driving have led to models capable of generating high-quality trajectories. However, most existing planners tend to fix their policy after supervised training, leading to consistent but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Fan Ding , Xuewen Luo , Hwa Hui Tew , Ruturaj Reddy , Xikun Wang , Junn Yong Loo

The task of layout-to-image generation involves synthesizing images based on the captions of objects and their spatial positions. Existing methods still struggle in complex layout generation, where common bad cases include object missing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Bo Cheng , Yuhang Ma , Liebucha Wu , Shanyuan Liu , Ao Ma , Xiaoyu Wu , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin

Diffusion models, which leverage stochastic processes to capture complex data distributions effectively, have shown their performance as generative models, achieving notable success in image-related tasks through iterative denoising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Toshihide Ubukata , Jialong Li , Kenji Tei

In this paper we introduce CorticalFlow, a new geometric deep-learning model that, given a 3-dimensional image, learns to deform a reference template towards a targeted object. To conserve the template mesh's topological properties, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Léo Lebrat , Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Frédéric de Gournay , Darren Fu , Pierrick Bourgeat , Jurgen Fripp , Clinton Fookes , Olivier Salvado

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in image and video synthesis. However, scaling them to high-resolution inputs is challenging and requires restructuring the diffusion pipeline into multiple independent components,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Ivan Skorokhodov , Willi Menapace , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Sergey Tulyakov

We formulate a hierarchical rectified flow to model data distributions. It hierarchically couples multiple ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and defines a time-differentiable stochastic process that generates a data distribution from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yichi Zhang , Yici Yan , Alex Schwing , Zhizhen Zhao

Diffusion models and flow-matching models have enabled generating diverse and realistic images by learning to transfer noise to data. However, sampling from these models involves iterative denoising over many neural network passes, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kevin Frans , Danijar Hafner , Sergey Levine , Pieter Abbeel

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable generation quality, but they suffer from significant inference cost due to their reliance on multiple sequential denoising steps, motivating recent efforts to distill this inference process into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zihan Yang , Shuyuan Tu , Licheng Zhang , Qi Dai , Yu-Gang Jiang , Zuxuan Wu