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20192024
most citedTackling the Generative Learning Trilemma with Denoising Diffusion GANs

145 citations · 271 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.LG2024

EM Distillation for One-step Diffusion Models

Sirui Xie, Zhisheng Xiao, Diederik P Kingma +6

While diffusion models can learn complex distributions, sampling requires a computationally expensive iterative process. Existing distillation methods enable efficient sampling, bu…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

UFOGen: You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs

Yanwu Xu, Yang Zhao, Zhisheng Xiao +1

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in transforming textual prompts into coherent images, yet the computational cost of their inference remains…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

DreamInpainter: Text-Guided Subject-Driven Image Inpainting with Diffusion Models

Shaoan Xie, Yang Zhao, Zhisheng Xiao +5

This study introduces Text-Guided Subject-Driven Image Inpainting, a novel task that combines text and exemplar images for image inpainting. While both text and exemplar images hav…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

HiFi Tuner: High-Fidelity Subject-Driven Fine-Tuning for Diffusion Models

Zhonghao Wang, Wei Wei, Yang Zhao +4

This paper explores advancements in high-fidelity personalized image generation through the utilization of pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models. While previous approaches hav…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

MobileDiffusion: Instant Text-to-Image Generation on Mobile Devices

Yang Zhao, Yanwu Xu, Zhisheng Xiao +2

The deployment of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models on mobile devices is impeded by their substantial model size and slow inference speed. In this paper, we propose \textb…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Adaptive Multi-stage Density Ratio Estimation for Learning Latent Space Energy-based Model

Zhisheng Xiao, Tian Han

This paper studies the fundamental problem of learning energy-based model (EBM) in the latent space of the generator model. Learning such prior model typically requires running cos…

cs.LG2021★ 145 cited

Tackling the Generative Learning Trilemma with Denoising Diffusion GANs

Zhisheng Xiao, Karsten Kreis, Arash Vahdat

A wide variety of deep generative models has been developed in the past decade. Yet, these models often struggle with simultaneously addressing three key requirements including: hi…

cs.CV2021★ 6 cited

Do We Really Need to Learn Representations from In-domain Data for Outlier Detection?

Zhisheng Xiao, Qing Yan, Yali Amit

Unsupervised outlier detection, which predicts if a test sample is an outlier or not using only the information from unlabelled inlier data, is an important but challenging task. R…

cs.LG2021

EBMs Trained with Maximum Likelihood are Generator Models Trained with a Self-adverserial Loss

Zhisheng Xiao, Qing Yan, Yali Amit

Maximum likelihood estimation is widely used in training Energy-based models (EBMs). Training requires samples from an unnormalized distribution, which is usually intractable, and…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

ControlVAE: Tuning, Analytical Properties, and Performance Analysis

Huajie Shao, Zhisheng Xiao, Shuochao Yao +3

This paper reviews the novel concept of controllable variational autoencoder (ControlVAE), discusses its parameter tuning to meet application needs, derives its key analytic proper…

cs.LG2020★ 7 cited

VAEBM: A Symbiosis between Variational Autoencoders and Energy-based Models

Zhisheng Xiao, Karsten Kreis, Jan Kautz +1

Energy-based models (EBMs) have recently been successful in representing complex distributions of small images. However, sampling from them requires expensive Markov chain Monte Ca…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Exponential Tilting of Generative Models: Improving Sample Quality by Training and Sampling from Latent Energy

Zhisheng Xiao, Qing Yan, Yali Amit

In this paper, we present a general method that can improve the sample quality of pre-trained likelihood based generative models. Our method constructs an energy function on the la…

cs.LG2020★ 74 cited

Likelihood Regret: An Out-of-Distribution Detection Score For Variational Auto-encoder

Zhisheng Xiao, Qing Yan, Yali Amit

Deep probabilistic generative models enable modeling the likelihoods of very high dimensional data. An important application of generative modeling should be the ability to detect…

cs.LG2019★ 5 cited

A Method to Model Conditional Distributions with Normalizing Flows

Zhisheng Xiao, Qing Yan, Yali Amit

In this work, we investigate the use of normalizing flows to model conditional distributions. In particular, we use our proposed method to analyze inverse problems with invertible…

math.OC2019

Understanding Limitation of Two Symmetrized Orders by Worst-case Complexity

Peijun Xiao, Zhisheng Xiao, Ruoyu Sun

Update order is one of the major design choices of block decomposition algorithms. There are at least two classes of deterministic update orders: nonsymmetric (e.g. cyclic order) a…

cs.CV2019★ 18 cited

Generative Latent Flow

Zhisheng Xiao, Qing Yan, Yali Amit

In this work, we propose the Generative Latent Flow (GLF), an algorithm for generative modeling of the data distribution. GLF uses an Auto-encoder (AE) to learn latent representati…