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6 papers

cs.CV2026

Registers Matter for Pixel-Space Diffusion Transformers

Nikita Starodubcev, Ilia Sudakov, Ilya Drobyshevskiy +2

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are known to exhibit high-norm patch-token outliers that degrade feature map quality, a problem effectively mitigated by register tokens. As diffusion mo…

cs.CV2026

Revisiting Autoregressive Models for Generative Image Classification

Ilia Sudakov, Artem Babenko, Dmitry Baranchuk

Class-conditional generative models have emerged as accurate and robust classifiers, with diffusion models demonstrating clear advantages over other visual generative paradigms, in…

cs.LG2026

Inverse Entropic Optimal Transport Solves Semi-supervised Learning via Data Likelihood Maximization

Mikhail Persiianov, Arip Asadulaev, Nikita Andreev +5

Learning conditional distributions is a central problem in machine learning, which is typically approached via supervised methods with paired data

cs.CV2026

Scale-wise Distillation of Diffusion Models

Nikita Starodubcev, Ilya Drobyshevskiy, Denis Kuznedelev +2

Recent diffusion distillation methods have achieved remarkable progress, enabling high-quality -step sampling for large-scale text-conditional image and video diffusion mo…

cs.CV2026

Rethinking Global Text Conditioning in Diffusion Transformers

Nikita Starodubcev, Daniil Pakhomov, Zongze Wu +6

Diffusion transformers typically incorporate textual information via attention layers and a modulation mechanism using a pooled text embedding. Nevertheless, recent approaches disc…

cs.CV2024

Invertible Consistency Distillation for Text-Guided Image Editing in Around 7 Steps

Nikita Starodubcev, Mikhail Khoroshikh, Artem Babenko +1

Diffusion distillation represents a highly promising direction for achieving faithful text-to-image generation in a few sampling steps. However, despite recent successes, existing…