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most citedEmu: Enhancing Image Generation Models Using Photogenic Needles in a Haystack

30 citations · 47 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.CV2026

NVIDIA OmniDreams: Real-Time Generative World Model for Closed-Loop Autonomous Vehicle Simulation

NVIDIA, :, Aarti Basant +33

As autonomous vehicle capabilities advance, the safe evaluation of driving policies in long-tail scenarios remains a critical bottleneck. In closed-loop simulation, the driving pol…

cs.CV2026

Think in Strokes, Not Pixels: Process-Driven Image Generation via Interleaved Reasoning

Lei Zhang, Junjiao Tian, Zhipeng Fan +9

Humans paint images incrementally: they plan a global layout, sketch a coarse draft, inspect, and refine details, and most importantly, each step is grounded in the evolving visual…

cs.CV2026

UniT: Unified Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Test-time Scaling

Leon Liangyu Chen, Haoyu Ma, Zhipeng Fan +11

Unified models can handle both multimodal understanding and generation within a single architecture, yet they typically operate in a single pass without iteratively refining their…

cs.CV2025

Exploring MLLM-Diffusion Information Transfer with MetaCanvas

Han Lin, Xichen Pan, Ziqi Huang +10

Multimodal learning has rapidly advanced visual understanding, largely via multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that use powerful LLMs as cognitive cores. In visual generation,…

cs.CV2025

PhyGDPO: Physics-Aware Groupwise Direct Preference Optimization for Physically Consistent Text-to-Video Generation

Yuanhao Cai, Kunpeng Li, Menglin Jia +11

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) generation have achieved good visual quality, yet synthesizing videos that faithfully follow physical laws remains an open challenge. Existin…

cs.CV2025

Improving Chain-of-Thought Efficiency for Autoregressive Image Generation

Zeqi Gu, Markos Georgopoulos, Xiaoliang Dai +10

Autoregressive multimodal large language models have recently gained popularity for image generation, driven by advances in foundation models. To enhance alignment and detail, newe…

cs.CV2025

Token-Shuffle: Towards High-Resolution Image Generation with Autoregressive Models

Xu Ma, Peize Sun, Haoyu Ma +22

Autoregressive (AR) models, long dominant in language generation, are increasingly applied to image synthesis but are often considered less competitive than Diffusion-based models.…

cs.CV2025

Transfer between Modalities with MetaQueries

Xichen Pan, Satya Narayan Shukla, Aashu Singh +9

Unified multimodal models aim to integrate understanding (text output) and generation (pixel output), but aligning these different modalities within a single architecture often dem…

cs.CV2025

Learnings from Scaling Visual Tokenizers for Reconstruction and Generation

Philippe Hansen-Estruch, David Yan, Ching-Yao Chung +7

Visual tokenization via auto-encoding empowers state-of-the-art image and video generative models by compressing pixels into a latent space. Although scaling Transformer-based gene…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Llama Learns to Direct: DirectorLLM for Human-Centric Video Generation

Kunpeng Song, Tingbo Hou, Zecheng He +12

In this paper, we introduce DirectorLLM, a novel video generation model that employs a large language model (LLM) to orchestrate human poses within videos. As foundational text-to-…

cs.CV2024

LinGen: Towards High-Resolution Minute-Length Text-to-Video Generation with Linear Computational Complexity

Hongjie Wang, Chih-Yao Ma, Yen-Cheng Liu +10

Text-to-video generation enhances content creation but is highly computationally intensive: The computational cost of Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) scales quadratically in the numb…

cs.CV2024★ 8 cited

Movie Gen: A Cast of Media Foundation Models

Adam Polyak, Amit Zohar, Andrew Brown +85

We present Movie Gen, a cast of foundation models that generates high-quality, 1080p HD videos with different aspect ratios and synchronized audio. We also show additional capabili…

cs.CV2024

Pixel-Space Post-Training of Latent Diffusion Models

Christina Zhang, Simran Motwani, Matthew Yu +6

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) have made significant advancements in the field of image generation in recent years. One major advantage of LDMs is their ability to operate in a com…

cs.CV2024

An Analysis on Quantizing Diffusion Transformers

Yuewei Yang, Jialiang Wang, Xiaoliang Dai +2

Diffusion Models (DMs) utilize an iterative denoising process to transform random noise into synthetic data. Initally proposed with a UNet structure, DMs excel at producing images…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Cache Me if You Can: Accelerating Diffusion Models through Block Caching

Felix Wimbauer, Bichen Wu, Edgar Schoenfeld +11

Diffusion models have recently revolutionized the field of image synthesis due to their ability to generate photorealistic images. However, one of the major drawbacks of diffusion…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

FlowVid: Taming Imperfect Optical Flows for Consistent Video-to-Video Synthesis

Feng Liang, Bichen Wu, Jialiang Wang +8

Diffusion models have transformed the image-to-image (I2I) synthesis and are now permeating into videos. However, the advancement of video-to-video (V2V) synthesis has been hampere…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Efficient Quantization Strategies for Latent Diffusion Models

Yuewei Yang, Xiaoliang Dai, Jialiang Wang +2

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) capture the dynamic evolution of latent variables over time, blending patterns and multimodality in a generative system. Despite the proficiency of L…

cs.CV2023

ControlRoom3D: Room Generation using Semantic Proxy Rooms

Jonas Schult, Sam Tsai, Lukas Höllein +11

Manually creating 3D environments for AR/VR applications is a complex process requiring expert knowledge in 3D modeling software. Pioneering works facilitate this process by genera…

cs.CV2023★ 30 cited

Emu: Enhancing Image Generation Models Using Photogenic Needles in a Haystack

Xiaoliang Dai, Ji Hou, Chih-Yao Ma +23

Training text-to-image models with web scale image-text pairs enables the generation of a wide range of visual concepts from text. However, these pre-trained models often face chal…