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From Atoms to Entropy: Optimal Noise Allocation for Diffusion Training in the Convex Regime
Luca Ambrogioni, Giulio Franzese, Alberto Foresti +7
How should a diffusion model decide which noise levels to train on, and how much? Despite the importance of this choice, current noise schedules are based largely on heuristics or…
TILDE: TILt-based Distributional Erasure for Concept Unlearning
Naveen George, Naoki Murata, Yuhta Takida +2
Concept unlearning in text-to-image diffusion models is critical for safe and practical deployment: with rising privacy concerns, copyright disputes, trademark constraints, and saf…
A Unified View of Score-Based and Drifting Models
Chieh-Hsin Lai, Bac Nguyen, Naoki Murata +5
Drifting models train one-step generators by optimizing a kernel-induced mean-shift discrepancy between the data and model distributions, with Laplace kernels used by default in pr…
Improved Object-Centric Diffusion Learning with Registers and Contrastive Alignment
Bac Nguyen, Yuhta Takida, Naoki Murata +4
Slot Attention (SA) with pretrained diffusion models has recently shown promise for object-centric learning (OCL), but suffers from slot entanglement and weak alignment between obj…
Noise Scheduling as Information-Guided Allocation in Diffusion Training
Gabriel Raya, Bac Nguyen, Georgios Batzolis +6
We introduce InfoNoise, an online adaptive noise schedule for diffusion training that reallocates optimization effort toward noise levels where denoising is most informative. Toget…
GUDA: Counterfactual Group-wise Training Data Attribution for Diffusion Models via Unlearning
Naoki Murata, Yuhta Takida, Chieh-Hsin Lai +4
Training-data attribution for vision generative models aims to identify which training data influenced a given output. While most methods score individual examples, practitioners o…
Locality-Aware Continual Unlearning for Diffusion Models
Naveen George, Naoki Murata, Yuhta Takida +2
Real-world deployment of text-to-image diffusion models requires continual concept removal as new privacy, copyright, or safety obligations arise over time. Existing unlearning met…
SONA: Learning Conditional, Unconditional, and Mismatching-Aware Discriminator
Yuhta Takida, Satoshi Hayakawa, Takashi Shibuya +6
Deep generative models have made significant advances in generating complex content, yet conditional generation remains a fundamental challenge. Existing conditional generative adv…
Schrödinger Bridge Consistency Trajectory Models for Speech Enhancement
Shuichiro Nishigori, Koichi Saito, Naoki Murata +3
Speech enhancement (SE) utilizing diffusion models is a promising technology that improves speech quality in noisy speech data. Furthermore, the Schrödinger bridge (SB) has recentl…
Concept-TRAK: Understanding how diffusion models learn concepts through concept-level attribution
Yonghyun Park, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Satoshi Hayakawa +7
While diffusion models excel at image generation, their growing adoption raises critical concerns about copyright issues and model transparency. Existing attribution methods identi…
Large-Scale Training Data Attribution for Music Generative Models via Unlearning
Woosung Choi, Junghyun Koo, Kin Wai Cheuk +7
This paper explores the use of unlearning methods for training data attribution (TDA) in music generative models trained on large-scale datasets. TDA aims to identify which specifi…
Forging and Removing Latent-Noise Diffusion Watermarks Using a Single Image
Anubhav Jain, Yuya Kobayashi, Naoki Murata +6
Watermarking techniques are vital for protecting intellectual property and preventing fraudulent use of media. Most previous watermarking schemes designed for diffusion models embe…
SteerMusic: Enhanced Musical Consistency for Zero-shot Text-guided and Personalized Music Editing
Xinlei Niu, Kin Wai Cheuk, Jing Zhang +8
Music editing is an important step in music production, which has broad applications, including game development and film production. Most existing zero-shot text-guided editing me…
Transformed Low-rank Adaptation via Tensor Decomposition and Its Applications to Text-to-image Models
Zerui Tao, Yuhta Takida, Naoki Murata +2
Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) of text-to-image models has become an increasingly popular technique with many applications. Among the various PEFT methods, Low-Rank Adaptat…
Blind Inverse Problem Solving Made Easy by Text-to-Image Latent Diffusion
Michail Dontas, Yutong He, Naoki Murata +3
This paper considers blind inverse image restoration, the task of predicting a target image from a degraded source when the degradation (i.e. the forward operator) is unknown. Exis…
Improving Vector-Quantized Image Modeling with Latent Consistency-Matching Diffusion
Bac Nguyen, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yuhta Takida +4
By embedding discrete representations into a continuous latent space, we can leverage continuous-space latent diffusion models to handle generative modeling of discrete data. Howev…
G2D2: Gradient-Guided Discrete Diffusion for Inverse Problem Solving
Naoki Murata, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yuhta Takida +4
Recent literature has effectively leveraged diffusion models trained on continuous variables as priors for solving inverse problems. Notably, discrete diffusion models with discret…
HERO: Human-Feedback Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Online Diffusion Model Finetuning
Ayano Hiranaka, Shang-Fu Chen, Chieh-Hsin Lai +6
Controllable generation through Stable Diffusion (SD) fine-tuning aims to improve fidelity, safety, and alignment with human guidance. Existing reinforcement learning from human fe…
MoLA: Motion Generation and Editing with Latent Diffusion Enhanced by Adversarial Training
Kengo Uchida, Takashi Shibuya, Yuhta Takida +4
In text-to-motion generation, controllability as well as generation quality and speed has become increasingly critical. The controllability challenges include generating a motion o…
Instruct-MusicGen: Unlocking Text-to-Music Editing for Music Language Models via Instruction Tuning
Yixiao Zhang, Yukara Ikemiya, Woosung Choi +7
Recent advances in text-to-music editing, which employ text queries to modify music (e.g.\ by changing its style or adjusting instrumental components), present unique challenges an…
GenWarp: Single Image to Novel Views with Semantic-Preserving Generative Warping
Junyoung Seo, Kazumi Fukuda, Takashi Shibuya +6
Generating novel views from a single image remains a challenging task due to the complexity of 3D scenes and the limited diversity in the existing multi-view datasets to train a mo…
PaGoDA: Progressive Growing of a One-Step Generator from a Low-Resolution Diffusion Teacher
Dongjun Kim, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Wei-Hsiang Liao +5
The diffusion model performs remarkable in generating high-dimensional content but is computationally intensive, especially during training. We propose Progressive Growing of Diffu…
Weighted Point Set Embedding for Multimodal Contrastive Learning Toward Optimal Similarity Metric
Toshimitsu Uesaka, Taiji Suzuki, Yuhta Takida +3
In typical multimodal contrastive learning, such as CLIP, encoders produce one point in the latent representation space for each input. However, one-point representation has diffic…
Automated Black-box Prompt Engineering for Personalized Text-to-Image Generation
Yutong He, Alexander Robey, Naoki Murata +7
Prompt engineering is an effective but labor-intensive way to control text-to-image (T2I) generative models. Its time-intensive nature and complexity have spurred the development o…