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We propose a physics-informed consistency modeling framework for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) via fast, few-step generative inference. We identify a key stability challenge in physics-constrained consistency training, where…

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The Straight-Through Estimator (STE) is the dominant method for training neural networks with discrete variables, enabling gradient-based optimisation by routing gradients through a differentiable surrogate. However, existing STE variants…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rushi Shah , Mingyuan Yan , Michael Curtis Mozer , Dianbo Liu

The adoption of text-to-image diffusion models raises concerns over reliability, drawing scrutiny under the lens of various metrics like calibration, fairness, or compute efficiency. We focus in this work on two issues that arise when…

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Recovering material information from images has been extensively studied in computer graphics and vision. Recent works in material estimation leverage diffusion model showing promising results. However, these diffusion-based methods adopt a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiuchao Wu , Pengfei Zhu , Jiangjing Lyu , Xinguo Liu , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo , Weiwei Xu , Chengfei Lyu

Developing efficient multi-objective optimization methods to compute the Pareto set of optimal compromises between conflicting objectives remains a key challenge, especially for large-scale and expensive problems. To bridge this gap, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Sedjro Salomon Hotegni , Sebastian Peitz

We introduce a novel, training-free system for reconstructing, understanding, and rendering 3D indoor scenes from a sparse set of unposed RGB images. Unlike traditional radiance field approaches that require dense views and per-scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiatong Xia , Lingqiao Liu

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) deliver state-of-the-art image quality, yet their training remains notoriously slow. A recent remedy -- representation alignment (REPA) that matches DiT hidden features to those of a non-generative teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Ziqiao Wang , Wangbo Zhao , Yuhao Zhou , Zekai Li , Zhiyuan Liang , Mingjia Shi , Xuanlei Zhao , Pengfei Zhou , Kaipeng Zhang , Zhangyang Wang , Kai Wang , Yang You

Recent approaches have shown promises distilling diffusion models into efficient one-step generators. Among them, Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) produces one-step generators that match their teacher in distribution, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Tianwei Yin , Michaël Gharbi , Taesung Park , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Fredo Durand , William T. Freeman

One-step text-to-image generator models offer advantages such as swift inference efficiency, flexible architectures, and state-of-the-art generation performance. In this paper, we study the problem of aligning one-step generator models with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Weijian Luo

In recent years, large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have demonstrated their outstanding capabilities in image and video generation tasks. However, existing models tend to produce visual objects commonly found in the training dataset,…

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Recently, large-scale diffusion models, e.g., Stable diffusion and DallE2, have shown remarkable results on image synthesis. On the other hand, large-scale cross-modal pre-trained models (e.g., CLIP, ALIGN, and FILIP) are competent for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Runhui Huang , Jianhua Han , Guansong Lu , Xiaodan Liang , Yihan Zeng , Wei Zhang , Hang Xu

Generative graph models struggle to scale due to the need to predict the existence or type of edges between all node pairs. To address the resulting quadratic complexity, existing scalable models often impose restrictive assumptions such as…

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Diffusion models have shown strong performance in speech enhancement, but their real-time applicability has been limited by multi-step iterative sampling. Consistency distillation has recently emerged as a promising alternative by…

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Stride determines the distance between adjacent filter positions as the filter moves across the input. A fixed stride causes important information contained in the image can not be captured, so that important information is not classified.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Sulthan Rafif , Mochamad Arfan Ravy Wahyu Pratama , Mohammad Faris Azhar , Ahmad Mustafidul Ibad , Lailil Muflikhah , Novanto Yudistira

Diffusion models have become leading approaches for high-fidelity image generation. Recent DiT-based diffusion models, in particular, achieve strong prompt adherence while producing high-quality samples. We propose SHIFT, a simple but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Nina Konovalova , Andrey Kuznetsov , Aibek Alanov

Classifier-free guided diffusion models have recently been shown to be highly effective at high-resolution image generation, and they have been widely used in large-scale diffusion frameworks including DALLE-2, Stable Diffusion and Imagen.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Chenlin Meng , Robin Rombach , Ruiqi Gao , Diederik P. Kingma , Stefano Ermon , Jonathan Ho , Tim Salimans

Modeling physical systems in a generative manner offers several advantages, including the ability to handle partial observations, generate diverse solutions, and address both forward and inverse problems. Recently, diffusion models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yi Zhang , Difan Zou

Various bias-correction methods such as EXTRA, gradient tracking methods, and exact diffusion have been proposed recently to solve distributed {\em deterministic} optimization problems. These methods employ constant step-sizes and converge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Kun Yuan , Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Bicheng Ying , Ali H. Sayed

In this paper, we aim to enhance the performance of SwiftBrush, a prominent one-step text-to-image diffusion model, to be competitive with its multi-step Stable Diffusion counterpart. Initially, we explore the quality-diversity trade-off…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Trung Dao , Thuan Hoang Nguyen , Thanh Le , Duc Vu , Khoi Nguyen , Cuong Pham , Anh Tran

Reconstructing high-fidelity flow fields from low-fidelity observations is a central problem in scientific machine learning, yet recent diffusion and flow-matching models typically rely on iterative sampling, making them costly for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Sicheng Ma , Tianyue Yang , Xiuzhe Wu , Xiao Xue