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StyleGAN2 is a state-of-the-art network in generating realistic images. Besides, it was explicitly trained to have disentangled directions in latent space, which allows efficient image manipulation by varying latent factors. Editing…

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In this paper, we show that the performance of a learnt generative model is closely related to the model's ability to accurately represent the inferred \textbf{latent data distribution}, i.e. its topology and structural properties. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Shuyu Lin , Ronald Clark

Modern diffusion models, particularly those utilizing a Transformer-based UNet for denoising, rely heavily on self-attention operations to manage complex spatial relationships, thus achieving impressive generation performance. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Songhua Liu , Weihao Yu , Zhenxiong Tan , Xinchao Wang

We introduce the Pyramid Diffusion Model (PDM), a novel architecture designed for ultra-high-resolution image synthesis. PDM utilizes a pyramid latent representation, providing a broader design space that enables more flexible, structured,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jiajie Yang

Recent advances in text-to-image generation have primarily relied on extensive datasets and parameter-heavy architectures. These requirements severely limit accessibility for researchers and practitioners who lack substantial computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xianfeng Wu , Yajing Bai , Haoze Zheng , Harold Haodong Chen , Yexin Liu , Zihao Wang , Xuran Ma , Wen-Jie Shu , Xianzu Wu , Harry Yang , Ser-Nam Lim

The field of advanced text-to-image generation is witnessing the emergence of unified frameworks that integrate powerful text encoders, such as CLIP and T5, with Diffusion Transformer backbones. Although there have been efforts to control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Liang Chen , Shuai Bai , Wenhao Chai , Weichu Xie , Haozhe Zhao , Leon Vinci , Junyang Lin , Baobao Chang

Existing text-to-image diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images, but face significant efficiency challenges when scaled to high resolutions, like 4K image generation. While previous research accelerates diffusion models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Wenkun He , Yuchao Gu , Junyu Chen , Dongyun Zou , Yujun Lin , Zhekai Zhang , Haocheng Xi , Muyang Li , Ligeng Zhu , Jincheng Yu , Junsong Chen , Enze Xie , Song Han , Han Cai

Advancements in mobility services, navigation systems, and smart transportation technologies have made it possible to collect large amounts of path data. Modeling the distribution of this path data, known as the Path Generation (PG)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Dingyuan Shi , Lulu Zhang , Yongxin Tong , Ke Xu

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis tasks as well as density estimation. Applied in the latent space of a powerful pretrained autoencoder (LDM), their immense computational requirements can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jeremias Traub

Diffusion models have attained remarkable breakthroughs in the real-world super-resolution (SR) task, albeit at slow inference and high demand on devices. To accelerate inference, recent works like GenDR adopt step distillation to minimize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yan Wang , Shijie Zhao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang

Autoencoder (AE) is the key to the success of latent diffusion models for image and video generation, reducing the denoising resolution and improving efficiency. However, the power of AE has long been underexplored in terms of network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yushu Wu , Yanyu Li , Ivan Skorokhodov , Anil Kag , Willi Menapace , Sharath Girish , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov

Conditional image-to-video (cI2V) generation aims to synthesize a new plausible video starting from an image (e.g., a person's face) and a condition (e.g., an action class label like smile). The key challenge of the cI2V task lies in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Haomiao Ni , Changhao Shi , Kai Li , Sharon X. Huang , Martin Renqiang Min

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) rely heavily on the compressed latent space provided by Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) for high-quality image generation. Recent studies have attempted to obtain generation-friendly VAEs by directly adopting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 John Page , Xuesong Niu , Kai Wu , Kun Gai

Recent progress in generative models has significantly improved image restoration capabilities, particularly through powerful diffusion models that offer remarkable recovery of semantic details and local fidelity. However, deploying these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yongsheng Yu , Haitian Zheng , Zhifei Zhang , Jianming Zhang , Yuqian Zhou , Connelly Barnes , Yuchen Liu , Wei Xiong , Zhe Lin , Jiebo Luo

Recent advances in generative modeling, namely Diffusion models, have revolutionized generative modeling, enabling high-quality image generation tailored to user needs. This paper proposes a framework for the generative design of structural…

Discrete autoregressive (AR) text-to-image (T2I) models pair a VQ tokenizer with an AR policy, and current post-training pipelines optimize only the policy while keeping the VQ decoder frozen. Recent diffusion T2I work, exemplified by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Siyong Jian , Siyuan Li , Luyuan Zhang , Zedong Wang , Xin Jin , Ying Li , Cheng Tan , Huan Wang

In this paper, we introduce LDGen, a novel method for integrating large language models (LLMs) into existing text-to-image diffusion models while minimizing computational demands. Traditional text encoders, such as CLIP and T5, exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Pengzhi Li , Pengfei Yu , Zide Liu , Wei He , Xuhao Pan , Xudong Rao , Tao Wei , Wei Chen

Graph diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance in graph generation but suffer from quadratic complexity in the number of nodes -- and much of their capacity is wasted modeling the absence of edges in sparse graphs. Inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Antoine Siraudin , Christopher Morris

Distilling latent diffusion models (LDMs) into ones that are fast to sample from is attracting growing research interest. However, the majority of existing methods face two critical challenges: (1) They hinge on long training using a huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Qingsong Xie , Zhenyi Liao , Zhijie Deng , Chen chen , Haonan Lu

Topology optimization enables the automated design of efficient structures by optimally distributing material within a defined domain. However, traditional gradient-based methods often scale poorly with increasing resolution and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Aaron Lutheran , Srijan Das , Alireza Tabarraei