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  1. Pooling Representation Autoencoders for Efficient Diffusion

    Oct 7, 2026Ramón Calvo-González, Youssef Saied, François FleuretAutoencodersDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    University of Geneva · University of Geneva and Meta

  2. Backend-Agnostic Sparse Attention for Fast High-Resolution Visual Generation

    Oct 6, 2026Liao Ma, Jiayi Song, Yunfeng Wu +2Video Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Transformer

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · School of Data Science, Fudan University · School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong

  3. Two Halves are More than One: Phase-wise Velocity Distillation for Fast and High-Quality Image Generation

    Oct 6, 2026Zhen Guo, Rongyuan Wu, Qiaosi Yi +3Diffusion Model DistillationDiffusion Distillation

    Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · OPPO Research Institute

  4. Level-of-Token Diffusion

    Oct 5, 2026Kiyohiro Nakayama, Brian Chao, Jan Ackermann +5Video Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Transformer

    Stanford University · Google

  5. LiFT: Loop Flow Transformers

    Oct 4, 2026Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshani, Pedro M. P. Curvo, Gertjan J. Burghouts +2Diffusion TransformerRecurrent Transformers

    VISLab · University of Amsterdam · TNO, Intelligent Imaging +1

  6. FACET: Factorized Asymmetric Conditioning for Efficient Transport in High-Fidelity Fluorescence Microscopy Synthesis

    Oct 4, 2026Sazan Mahbub, Caleb N. Ellington, Eric P. XingConditional Image GenerationDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    Carnegie Mellon University · GenBio AI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI

  7. DMAD: Distribution Matching as Adversarial Distillation for Fast Visual Generation

    Oct 1, 2026Zhengming Yu, Junkun Yuan, Haotian Yang +8Diffusion Model DistillationFew-Step Diffusion Sampling

    Texas A&M University · Intelligent Creation, ByteDance

  8. DC-SAE: Deep Compression Semantic Autoencoder for Faster Diffusion Convergence

    Sep 30, 2026Xu Huang, Ye Huang, Zijun Liao +6AutoencodersDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    Peking University · Singapore University of Technology and Design

  9. From Unity Simulation to Diffusion-Based Augmentation: Quantifying Dataset Balance for Robust Object Detection

    Sep 29, 2026Mohamed Benkedadra, Aissa Saoudi, Maxime Gloesener +2Synthetic-to-Real Domain AdaptationSynthetic Data Augmentation

    ILIA, Université de Mons Mons, Belgium · Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France Valenciennes, France · DeepILIA, ILIA, Université de Mons Mons, Belgium +1

  10. Improved Distributional Diffusion Models

    Sep 29, 2026Tommaso Martorella, Alexandre Galashov, Felix Krause +4Few-Step Diffusion SamplingDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) · Google DeepMind

  11. Representation by Design in Generation: Cross-View Class-Token Alignment in Diffusion Transformers

    Sep 28, 2026Xiaoyu Wu, Yifei Wang, Chen WeiFlow MatchingDiffusion Transformer

    Carnegie Mellon University · Rice University

  12. Persistence Forcing: Exploiting Feature Specialization in Pixel-Space Diffusion

    Sep 28, 2026Chong Wang, Zixuan Fu, Shiqi Huang +3Diffusion TransformerDiffusion Guidance

    Nanyang Technological University · KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Hebei University of Technology

  13. Residual-Stream Burden Shapes Representation Learning in Diffusion Transformers

    Sep 27, 2026Tongtong Liang, Siqi Kou, Ziqiao Xi +6Diffusion TransformerResidual Learning

    UC San Diego · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Aether AI

  14. FuseReg: Regularizing Layer Fusion Mitigates the Reconstruction-Generation Gap in Representation Autoencoders

    Sep 25, 2026Hongyang Du, Yunfei Xie, Junjie Ye +13AutoencodersImage Reconstruction

    USC PSI Lab · Brown University · Rice University +4

  15. PixelDiT2: Representation-Grounded Pixel Diffusion Transformers

    Sep 21, 2026Yongsheng Yu, Wei Xiong, Yichen Sheng +2Diffusion Model GuidanceDiffusion Transformer

    NVIDIA · University of Rochester

  16. AlignMorph: Tuning-Free Diffusion Image Morphing via Explicit Semantic Transport

    Sep 21, 2026Wuyi Liu, Xu Han, Yuren Chen +3Diffusion-Based Image Generation

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Beijing Jiaotong University · Beihang University +1

  17. PhysReflect: Geometry and Perception Guided Diffusion for Physically-Plausible Mirror Reflections

    Sep 20, 2026Shuheng Ge, Hongwei Ren, Li Zhang +1Diffusion Model GuidanceImage Generation

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

  18. Beyond the Foreground: FOV-Aware Polyp Image Synthesis via Lesion-Guided Adaptive Mucosal Context Propagation

    Sep 17, 2026Tong Wang, Yuting He, Bin Ren +2Synthetic Data AugmentationDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    Southeast University · MBZUAI · Case Western Reserve University

  19. Spatially Adaptive Noise Injection

    Sep 16, 2026Frantzeska Lavda, Maciej Falkiewicz, Van Khoa Nguyen +1Diffusion SamplingDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, HES-SO Geneva · Computer Science Department, University of Geneva

  20. Mudragen: Geometrically Supervised Generation of Interacting Two-Hand Mudras for Preserving Indian Classical Dance Heritage

    Sep 3, 2026Jagadish Kashinath Kamble, Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, Debaditya Roy +1Conditional Image GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kharagpur, West Bengal, INDIA · Ashoka University Sonipat, Haryana, INDIA

  21. DPA: Decoupling Product-Agnostic Anomaly Representations for Zero-shot Anomaly Generation

    Sep 2, 2026Hang Yao, Yansheng Fu, Ming Liu +4Industrial Anomaly DetectionDiffusion-Based Image Generation

  22. Denoising Diffusion Generative Models Secretly Calculate Attentions

    Sep 1, 2026Farzan Haddadi, Leila Monfared, Ebrahim Rezaii +3Attention Control in Diffusion ModelsDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    School of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, IRAN · Independent researcher

  23. Advanced Pixel Diffusion Model with Guided Sparse Global Refinement

    Sep 1, 2026Weiyi You, Jinhua Zhang, Xingyu Zhou +3Pixel-Space Diffusion ModelsDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  24. From Local Mismatch to Global Impact: Optimizing Cache Reuse Policy for Efficient Diffusion

    Aug 13, 2026Xichen Ye, Yifan Wu, Zhikang Xie +3Video Diffusion ModelsDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University · Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong · School of Data Science, Fudan University

  25. AdvFD: Boosting Visual Generation via Adversarial Fr'echet Distance Loss

    Aug 11, 2026Mingju Gao, Jingkai Zhou, Kun Gai +2Diffusion Model AlignmentDiffusion Model Fine-Tuning

    Peking University · KlingAI Research

  26. Unveiling the Secret of AdaLN-Zero in Diffusion Transformer

    Aug 10, 2026Jie Zhu, Mingyu Ding, Boqiang Duan +2Diffusion TransformerNeural Network Initialization

    Key Lab of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education, China, and School of Computer Science, Peking University, China. · UC Berkeley · Baidu, Beijing, China

  27. InsertFuse: A Unified Framework for Multi-Category Reference-Guided Image Insertion

    Aug 6, 2026Guangzhao Li, Qingyan Wei, Huayu Zheng +7Conditional Image GenerationDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Shanghai Innovation Institute · 4Xi’an Jiaotong University +2

  28. Controllable Clothing: Precise Labels and Generation for Virtual Try-On with Latent Diffusion Models

    Aug 6, 2026Max Rehman LinderVirtual Try-OnConditional Image Generation

    PUBLICIS RESOURCES GENAI TEAM · ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE

  29. A Foundational EDM2-Based Generative Model for High-Resolution Synthetic Fetal Ultrasound Imaging from Open Datasets

    Aug 5, 2026Harvey Mannering, Yilin Zhang, Ziao Liu +3Synthetic Data AugmentationUltrasound Imaging

    University of Southampton · Tsinghua University · King’s College London +1

  30. STEP-OPD: Rethinking Output Targets and Internal Dynamics in On-Policy Distillation for Diffusion Models

    Aug 5, 2026Qingyan Wei, Guangzhao Li, Xiaobing Tu +5Diffusion Model DistillationDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Alibaba Group

  31. Intrinsic-Hybrid Latent Diffusion Models for Generative Modeling on Unknown Manifolds

    Aug 5, 2026Yizhu Wang, Mu Niu, Xiaochen YangLatent Diffusion ModelsGenerative Modeling

    School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K.

  32. FlowForm: Synergizing Fluid Physics with Topological Consistency for Satellite Flood Synthesis

    Aug 4, 2026Zhang Weihui, Wang Ruizhi, Xu Hongye +3Physics-Informed Generative ModelingSynthetic Data Augmentation

    Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China

  33. IRIS: Visual-Semantic Binding for Forgery-Resistant Watermarking of Diffusion Images

    Aug 4, 2026Xiaoyan Feng, Zheng Gao, Tong Guan +4Diffusion Model WatermarkingDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    1Griffith University · University of New South Wales · 3Zhejiang University

  34. HyperbolicDiffusion: Sharp & Scalable Tiled Generation on the Hyperbolic Plane

    Aug 4, 2026Hugo Caselles-DupréDiffusion SamplingImage Generation

    Obvious Research Paris, France

  35. DiverseDiT++: Quantifying, Analyzing, and Promoting Representation Diversity in Diffusion Transformers

    Aug 4, 2026Binglei Li, Mengping Yang, Zhiyu Tan +4Representation LearningDiffusion Transformer

    Fudan University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Academy of AI for Science, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China

  36. SPARE: Structural Parameter-Free Affinity Regularization for Flow Matching

    Aug 3, 2026Zong-Wei Hong, Jinglun Li, Shen Zhang +3Diffusion Model AlignmentFlow Matching

    JIIOV Technology

  37. GeoCore-9B: Towards Geo-Aware Generative Foundation Models in Earth Observation

    Aug 3, 2026Jeonghyeok Do, Munchurl KimGeospatial Foundation ModelsDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    Information & Electronics Research Institute KAIST · School of Electrical Engineering KAIST

  38. SPAE: Spectrally Guided Autoencoder for Pretrained Visual Latents

    Aug 2, 2026Yibin Huang, Jixiang Hong, Zongzhao Li +8AutoencodersVision Foundation Model Adaptation

    Alibaba Group · Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China

  39. UDT: Reconciling U-Nets and Diffusion Transformers with Data-Adaptive Token Reduction

    Aug 2, 2026Junno Yun, Yaşar Utku Alçalar, Mehmet AkçakayaToken MergingDiffusion Transformer

    University of Minnesota

  40. InstancePin: Instance-Addressable Layout-to-Image Diffusion via Coordinate Pinning

    Aug 1, 2026Chaoyue Wu, Yunfei Zhang, Si WuConditional Image GenerationImage Generation

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China · School of Future Technology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

  41. OSAGEN: Object-Aware Mask Priors and Multistage Decoupled Diffusion for Industrial Anomaly Generation

    Jul 31, 2026Jinyi Xu, Peng Chen, Yunkang Cao +3Industrial Anomaly DetectionAnomaly Localization

    School of Cyber Science and Technology, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University · School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University · Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau +1

  42. FeatFix: Reuse What You Verify through Local Exact-Feature Correction for Faster Cached Diffusion Inference

    Jul 30, 2026Hanshuai Cui, Zhiqing Tang, Zhi Yao +3Diffusion-Based Image GenerationDiffusion Model Caching

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China · Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Future Networks, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China

  43. Amortized Moment Matching for Visual Generation

    Jul 29, 2026Wenze Liu, Xintao Wang, Pengfei Wan +1One-Step Generative ModelingDistribution Matching

    MMLab, CUHK · Work done at Kuaishou Technology. · Kling Team, Kuaishou Technology

  44. LumaGuide: Distribution Shaping for Training-Free HDR Generation in Diffusion Models

    Jul 28, 2026Bowen Chen, Shreshth Saini, Balu Adsumilli +1Diffusion Model GuidanceImage Generation

    The University of Texas at Austin · Google/YouTube · University of Colorado Boulder

  45. Parallel Decoding Distillation for Fast Image and Video Generation

    Jul 28, 2026Neta Shaul, Chao Liu, Arash Vahdat +1Video Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Model Distillation

    2Weizmann Institute of Science · 1NVIDIA

  46. Beyond Facial Consistency: Personalized Person Image Generation with Holistic Identity Preservation

    Jul 28, 2026Yuxuan Xiao, Shanshan Zhang, Jian Yang +1Subject-Driven Image GenerationIdentity-Preserving Image Generation

  47. MorphUNet: Alpha-Controlled Biometric Transport for Diffusion-Based Face Morphing Attacks

    Jul 27, 2026Taimoor Rizwan, Sara Atito, Zhenhua Feng +2Biometric IdentificationDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    University of Surrey Guildford, United Kingdom · Jiangnan University Wuxi, China

  48. Diff-ID: Identity Consistent Facial Image Generation and Morphing via Diffusion Models

    Jul 27, 2026Taimoor Rizwan, Sara Atito, Muhammad Awais +2Image GenerationIdentity-Preserving Image Generation

    Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) University of Surrey Guildford, United Kingdom · School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Jiangnan University Wuxi, China

  49. OmniCache: Multidimensional Hierarchical Feature Caching For Diffusion Models

    Jul 26, 2026Zhaoyuan He, Muhammad Muaz, Lili QiuVideo Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Transformer

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

  50. PriSAR: 3D Geometric-Prior-Guided Diffusion for Parameter-Controlled SAR Image Generation

    Jul 25, 2026Fan Zhang, Xuanting Wu, Fei Ma +2Diffusion Model GuidanceDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China · 2Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  51. InnoText: A Unified Model for Visual Text Generation and Editing

    Jul 24, 2026Haowei Liu, Runze He, Jian Lu +10Diffusion TransformerDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-Sen University · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunications +5

  52. Inference-Time Scaling of Diffusion Models via Progressive Seed Pruning

    Jul 23, 2026Rogerio Guimaraes, Pietro PeronaDiffusion Model SamplingDiffusion Sampling

    California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA 91125, USA

  53. WearWow: Native 2K Multi-Garment Virtual Try-On via Adaptive Token Packing and Preference Alignment

    Jul 22, 2026Xujie Zhang, Runyan Du, Song Chang +7Virtual Try-OnDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, China · Meitu Lab, China

  54. Analytic Distribution of Classifier-Free Guidance for Schedule Design

    Jul 22, 2026Enze Jiang, Zheng MaClassifier-Free GuidanceDiffusion Sampling

    School of Mathematical Sciences Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China

  55. Local Label-Informed Feature Transfer for Generating Ground-Truth Medical Images: A Comparison of GAN- and Diffusion-Based Approaches

    Jul 21, 2026Rick Wilming, Irem Ozseker, Luca Matteo Cornils +4Diffusion-Based Image GenerationMedical Image Synthesis

    Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin, Germany · Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

  56. DuSPiT: Dual-Branch Sub-Patch Pixel Diffusion Transformer

    Jul 20, 2026Yunpeng Bai, Yossi Gandelsman, Michaël GharbiDiffusion TransformerPixel-Space Diffusion Models

    The University of Texas at Austin · Reve

  57. DiFA: Inference-Time Forward-Process Alignment for Diffusion Models

    Jul 20, 2026Shigui Li, Delu ZengDiffusion Model AlignmentDiffusion Sampling

    School of Mathematics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China · School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

  58. Pixel-Space Diffusion Transformers

    Jul 20, 2026Renye Yan, Jikang Cheng, You Wu +8Diffusion TransformerPixel-Space Diffusion Models

    Peking University, China · Nanjing University, China · Stanford University, USA +3

  59. Physics-aware Masked Diffusion-based Flood Simulation for Urban Fisheye Disaster Detection

    Jul 17, 2026Sodtavilan Odonchimed, Tsogt Enkhbayar, Oyunzul Munkhtamga +1Diffusion-Based Image GenerationPhysics-Based Simulation

    The University of Tokyo · Mongolian University of Science and Technology · United Arab Emirates University

  60. VQ-Touch: A Data-Efficient Tactile Generation Framework Across Sensors and Scenarios

    Jul 16, 2026Kailin Lyu, Long Xiao, Jianing Zeng +3Tactile SensingVector-Quantized Variational Autoencoder

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences