arXiv AI

Generative Models: Principles, Architectures, and Applications

arXiv:2608. 08101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI has emerged as one of the most transformative forces in modern artificial intelligence, reshaping how we create, imagine, and interact with digital content.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Vision-centric generative AI models: A software-hardware perspective

The article discusses how vision generative AI models, while rapidly advancing, have largely been developed with a focus on output quality, leading to hardware that adapts reactively to increasing model demands. It evaluates the parameter cost and energy efficiency of these models across various accelerator platforms and aligns four generative model families with seven real-world application domains. The authors propose a software‑hardware co‑design strategy that considers deployment constraints from the outset, ensuring that the appropriate model runs on suitable hardware for specific applications, thereby making generative AI deployment more sustainable and widely accessible.

By Eleni Tselepi, Cristian Sestito, Shady Agwa, Themis Prodromakis
arXiv AI
Aug 20

Iterative Flow Matching: Path Correction and Gradual Refinement for Enhanced Generative Modeling

The paper "Iterative Flow Matching: Path Correction and Gradual Refinement for Enhanced Generative Modeling" investigates the use of flow matching for image generation and identifies that this approach can produce hallucinations—unrealistic images. It proposes an iterative refinement process that can be incorporated into virtually any generative modeling technique to improve performance and robustness. The authors demonstrate how their method corrects the generation path and gradually refines outputs to mitigate hallucinations.

By Eldad Haber, Shadab Ahamed, Md. Shahriar Rahim Siddiqui, Niloufar Zakariaei, Moshe Eliasof
OpenAI Blog
Jun 16, 2016

Generative models

This post describes four projects that share a common theme of enhancing or using generative models, a branch of unsupervised learning techniques in machine learning. In addition to describing our work, this post will tell you a bit more about generative models: what they are, why they are important, and where they might be going.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 10

Generative Communications: Overview, Technologies, and Trends

The groundbreaking development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly boosting the ability to generate content such as images and videos, reshaping communication paradigms. This article introduces generative communications (GenCom), a novel paradigm for 6G networks in which large AI models (LAMs) drive semantic understanding, reasoning, and content generation, embedding these into the communication process.

arXiv AI
Sep 21

Physically Based Rendering in the Latent Space

The paper introduces a method that applies physically based rendering (PBR) within the latent space of variational autoencoders used in image diffusion models. By modifying the rendering equation and using a differentiable renderer, the authors can generate latent maps that guide content creation with physically accurate lighting. The approach is trained on a single rendered image and then shown to generalize to changes in scene geometry, lighting, and camera viewpoint.

By Vuk Radovanovic, Vishesh Gupta, Adrien Gruson, Binh-Son Hua
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Building Expressive and Tractable Probabilistic Generative Models: A Review

The article surveys recent progress in tractable probabilistic generative modeling, with a focus on Probabilistic Circuits (PCs). It offers a unified view of the trade‑offs between expressivity and tractability, outlining design principles, algorithmic extensions, and a taxonomy of the field. The review also covers deep and hybrid PCs that integrate ideas from deep neural models, and highlights challenges and open questions for future research.

By Sahil Sidheekh, Sriraam Natarajan