3 papers
cs.CV2025
Direct Discriminative Optimization: Your Likelihood-Based Visual Generative Model is Secretly a GAN Discriminator
Kaiwen Zheng, Yongxin Chen, Huayu Chen +4
While likelihood-based generative models, particularly diffusion and autoregressive models, have achieved remarkable fidelity in visual generation, the maximum likelihood estimatio…
cs.LG2025
Masked Diffusion Models are Secretly Time-Agnostic Masked Models and Exploit Inaccurate Categorical Sampling
Kaiwen Zheng, Yongxin Chen, Hanzi Mao +3
Masked diffusion models (MDMs) have emerged as a popular research topic for generative modeling of discrete data, thanks to their superior performance over other discrete diffusion…
cs.GR2025
Articulated Kinematics Distillation from Video Diffusion Models
Xuan Li, Qianli Ma, Tsung-Yi Lin +4
We present Articulated Kinematics Distillation (AKD), a framework for generating high-fidelity character animations by merging the strengths of skeleton-based animation and modern…