English
Related papers

Related papers: Efficient Adjoint Matching for Fine-tuning Diffusi…

200 papers

This paper focuses on the alignment of flow matching models with human preferences. A promising way is fine-tuning by directly backpropagating reward gradients through the differentiable generation process of flow matching. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhanhao Liang , Tao Yang , Jie Wu , Chengjian Feng , Liang Zheng

Despite strong image-generation performance, diffusion models' reconstruction objectives limit alignment with human preferences. RL enables such alignment through explicit rewards. However, most studies apply RL to the full denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Renye Yan , Jikang Cheng , Shikun Sun , Yi Sun , You Wu , Wei Peng , Zongwei Wang , Ling Liang , Junliang Xing , Yimao Cai

The rapid adoption of text-to-image diffusion models in society underscores an urgent need to address their biases. Without interventions, these biases could propagate a skewed worldview and restrict opportunities for minority groups. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xudong Shen , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Min Lin , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

Training-free guided sampling in diffusion models leverages off-the-shelf pre-trained networks, such as an aesthetic evaluation model, to guide the generation process. Current training-free guided sampling algorithms obtain the guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jiachun Pan , Hanshu Yan , Jun Hao Liew , Jiashi Feng , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Generative models, particularly Diffusion Models (DM), have shown strong potential for Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction serving as expressive priors for solving ill-posed inverse problems. However, diffusion-based reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Jiayang Shi , Lincen Yang , Zhong Li , Tristan Van Leeuwen , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg

Text-to-image diffusion models rely on text embeddings from a pre-trained text encoder, but these embeddings remain fixed across all diffusion timesteps, limiting their adaptability to the generative process. We propose Diffusion Adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Byeonghu Na , Minsang Park , Gyuwon Sim , Donghyeok Shin , HeeSun Bae , Mina Kang , Se Jung Kwon , Wanmo Kang , Il-Chul Moon

Diffusion models have emerged as a promising approach for generating high-quality, high-dimensional images. Nevertheless, these models are hindered by their high computational cost and slow inference, partly due to the quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Omid Saghatchian , Atiyeh Gh. Moghadam , Ahmad Nickabadi

With the incorporation of the UNet architecture, diffusion probabilistic models have become a dominant force in image generation tasks. One key design in UNet is the skip connections between the encoder and decoder blocks. Although skip…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Jiajun Ma , Shuchen Xue , Tianyang Hu , Wenjia Wang , Zhaoqiang Liu , Zhenguo Li , Zhi-Ming Ma , Kenji Kawaguchi

We propose a simple, scalable algorithm for using stochastic interpolants to sample from unnormalized densities and for fine-tuning generative models. The approach, Tilt Matching, arises from a dynamical equation relating the flow matching…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-29 Peter Potaptchik , Cheuk-Kit Lee , Michael S. Albergo

While recent advancements in generative modeling have significantly improved text-image alignment, some residual misalignment between text and image representations still remains. Some approaches address this issue by fine-tuning models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jaa-Yeon Lee , Byunghee Cha , Jeongsol Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Utilizing pre-trained Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models to guide Blind Super-Resolution (BSR) has become a predominant approach in the field. While T2I models have traditionally relied on U-Net architectures, recent advancements have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haizhen Xie , Kunpeng Du , Qiangyu Yan , Sen Lu , Jianhong Han , Hanting Chen , Hailin Hu , Jie Hu

Diffusion models promise efficient parallel text generation but rely on bidirectional attention, creating a structural mismatch with pre-trained Autoregressive (AR) models. This incompatibility precludes reusing robust AR priors,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiangyu Ma , Teng Xiao , Zuchao Li , Lefei Zhang

Automated experiments in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) require rapid image segmentation to optimize data representation for human interpretation, decision-making, site-selective spectroscopies, and atomic manipulation.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-23 Kamyar Barakati , Utkarsh Pratiush , Austin C. Houston , Gerd Duscher , Sergei V. Kalinin

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art generative performance but are fundamentally bottlenecked by their slow, iterative sampling process. While diffusion distillation techniques enable high-fidelity, few-step generation, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Linqian Fan , Peiqin Sun , Tiancheng Wen , Shun Lu , Chengru Song

Additive manufacturing (AM) techniques hold promise but face significant challenges in process planning and optimization. The large temporal and spatial variations in temperature that can occur in layer-wise AM lead to thermal excursions,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Mikhail Khrenov , William Frieden Templeton , Sneha Prabha Narra

Large text-to-image diffusion models have impressive capabilities in generating photorealistic images from text prompts. How to effectively guide or control these powerful models to perform different downstream tasks becomes an important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zeju Qiu , Weiyang Liu , Haiwen Feng , Yuxuan Xue , Yao Feng , Zhen Liu , Dan Zhang , Adrian Weller , Bernhard Schölkopf

Consider learning a policy purely on the basis of demonstrated behavior -- that is, with no access to reinforcement signals, no knowledge of transition dynamics, and no further interaction with the environment. This *strictly batch…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-15 Daniel Jarrett , Ioana Bica , Mihaela van der Schaar

Fine-tuning text-to-image models with reward functions trained on human feedback data has proven effective for aligning model behavior with human intent. However, excessive optimization with such reward models, which serve as mere proxy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Kyuyoung Kim , Jongheon Jeong , Minyong An , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Jinwoo Shin , Kimin Lee

While many diffusion models perform well when controlling particular aspects such as style, character, and interaction, they struggle with fine-grained control due to dataset limitations and intricate model architecture design. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Conghan Yue , Zhengwei Peng , Shiyan Du , Zhi Ji , Chuangjian Cai , Le Wan , Dongyu Zhang

Researchers have long tried to minimize training costs in deep learning while maintaining strong generalization across diverse datasets. Emerging research on dataset distillation aims to reduce training costs by creating a small synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ahmad Sajedi , Samir Khaki , Ehsan Amjadian , Lucy Z. Liu , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis
‹ Prev 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 Next ›