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Diffusion models have shown promising generative capabilities across diverse domains, yet aligning their outputs with desired reward functions remains a challenge, particularly in cases where reward functions are non-differentiable. Some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xiner Li , Masatoshi Uehara , Xingyu Su , Gabriele Scalia , Tommaso Biancalani , Aviv Regev , Sergey Levine , Shuiwang Ji

Recently, autoregressive models have demonstrated remarkable performance in class-conditional image generation. However, the application of next-token prediction to high-resolution text-to-image generation remains largely unexplored. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Dengsheng Chen , Jie Hu , Tiezhu Yue , Xiaoming Wei , Enhua Wu

Diffusion models have shown significant progress in image translation tasks recently. However, due to their stochastic nature, there's often a trade-off between style transformation and content preservation. Current strategies aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Gihyun Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

Diffusion models have recently shown strong potential in language modeling, offering faster generation compared to traditional autoregressive approaches. However, applying supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to diffusion models remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guowei Xu , Wenxin Xu , Jiawang Zhao , Kaisheng Ma

Instruction-based image editing has made a great process in using natural human language to manipulate the visual content of images. However, existing models are limited by the quality of the dataset and cannot accurately localize editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Tiancheng Li , Jinxiu Liu , Huajun Chen , Qi Liu

Human preference alignment presents a critical yet underexplored challenge for diffusion models in text-to-3D generation. Existing solutions typically require task-specific fine-tuning, posing significant hurdles in data-scarce 3D domains.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqi Leng , Shuyuan Tu , Haidong Cao , Sicheng Xie , Daoguo Dong , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Feature attribution methods highlight the important input tokens as explanations to model predictions, which have been widely applied to deep neural networks towards trustworthy AI. However, recent works show that explanations provided by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Dongfang Li , Baotian Hu , Qingcai Chen , Shan He

Current Text-to-SQL methods are evaluated and only focused on executable queries, overlooking the semantic alignment challenge -- both in terms of the semantic meaning of the query and the correctness of the execution results. Even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Ashish Kattamuri , Ishita Prasad , Meetu Malhotra , Arpita Vats , Rahul Raja , Albert Lie

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

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models, when fine-tuned on a few personal images, can generate visuals with a high degree of consistency. However, such fine-tuned models are not robust; they often fail to compose with concepts of pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Kyungmin Lee , Sangkyung Kwak , Kihyuk Sohn , Jinwoo Shin

Well-designed prompts can guide text-to-image models to generate amazing images. However, the performant prompts are often model-specific and misaligned with user input. Instead of laborious human engineering, we propose prompt adaptation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yaru Hao , Zewen Chi , Li Dong , Furu Wei

We propose Diff-Instruct* (DI*), a data-efficient post-training approach for one-step text-to-image generative models to improve its human preferences without requiring image data. Our method frames alignment as online reinforcement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Weijian Luo , Colin Zhang , Debing Zhang , Zhengyang Geng

This study investigates the robustness of image classifiers to text-guided corruptions. We utilize diffusion models to edit images to different domains. Unlike other works that use synthetic or hand-picked data for benchmarking, we use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Mohammadreza Mofayezi , Yasamin Medghalchi

Diffusion models can be improved with additional guidance towards more effective representations of input. Indeed, prior empirical work has already shown that aligning internal representations of the diffusion model with those of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chenyu Wang , Cai Zhou , Sharut Gupta , Zongyu Lin , Stefanie Jegelka , Stephen Bates , Tommi Jaakkola

Image-conditioned Video diffusion models achieve impressive visual realism but often suffer from weakened motion fidelity, e.g., reduced motion dynamics or degraded long-term temporal coherence, especially after fine-tuning. We study the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xi Ye , Wenjia Yang , Yangyang Xu , Xiaoyang Liu , Duo Su , Mengfei Xia , Jun Zhu

We define a broader family of corruption processes that generalizes previously known diffusion models. To reverse these general diffusions, we propose a new objective called Soft Score Matching that provably learns the score function for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Giannis Daras , Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Peyman Milanfar

Text-to-image diffusion models have recently attracted the interest of many researchers, and inverting the diffusion process can play an important role in better understanding the generative process and how to engineer prompts in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

Recently, we have witnessed great progress in image editing with natural language instructions. Several closed-source models like GPT-Image-1, Seedream, and Google-Nano-Banana have shown highly promising progress. However, the open-source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Keming Wu , Sicong Jiang , Max Ku , Ping Nie , Minghao Liu , Wenhu Chen

Recent studies have demonstrated significant progress in aligning text-to-image diffusion models with human preference via Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback. However, while existing methods achieve high scores on automated reward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chubin Chen , Sujie Hu , Jiashu Zhu , Meiqi Wu , Jintao Chen , Yanxun Li , Nisha Huang , Chengyu Fang , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Xiu Li

Multi-channel video-language retrieval require models to understand information from different channels (e.g. video$+$question, video$+$speech) to correctly link a video with a textual response or query. Fortunately, contrastive multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Xudong Lin , Simran Tiwari , Shiyuan Huang , Manling Li , Mike Zheng Shou , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang