3 papers
cs.CV2026
RAIN: Region-Aware Inversion Network for Semantic Watermark Extraction
Zilai Li
Semantic watermarks for diffusion models embed ownership information into the generative process while preserving perceptual quality, but Gaussian-Shading extraction conventionally…
cs.CV2026
EMPURPLE: A Free Lunch for Diffusion Distillation based on the Information Bottleneck
Zilai Li, Lujia Bai
Diffusion models achieve impressive image-generation quality but remain expensive at inference time. Diffusion distillation reduces sampling steps, yet many distilled models, inclu…
cs.GR2025
F-scheduler: illuminating the free-lunch design space for fast sampling of diffusion models
Zilai Li, Lujia Bai
Diffusion models are the state-of-the-art generative models for high-resolution images, but sampling from pretrained models is computationally expensive, motivating interest in fas…