Pixel-space diffusion has recently emerged as a promising direction for high-fidelity image generation by modeling images directly in the original pixel domain. However, pixel-space diffusion is compu...
arXiv:2608.30129v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work presents $\textbf{Lapis}$, a $\textbf{l}$inear-$\textbf{a}$ttention-based $\textbf{pi}$xel-$\textbf{s}$pace generative framework that achieve...
By Bingde Liu, Wu Ran, Jinglei Zhang, Huanhuan Yuan, Chao Ma
Pixel‑Space Diffusion via Observation Operators introduces a new framework for pixel‑space diffusion models that addresses a scale‑time mismatch in existing methods. By replacing fixed full‑image supervision with a time‑indexed observation trajectory that progresses from coarse structures to the full image, the model aligns supervision with the natural recovery order of image details. The approach employs Gaussian‑Lanczos operators and a GL‑CoDA decoder to refine features progressively, resulting in faster convergence and higher generation quality, achieving an FID of 1.52 on ImageNet‑256.
By Shaojie Guo, Lichen Ma, Haoyang Tong, Yu He, Zipeng Guo, Xiaoan Liu, Feng Yan, Yu Guo, Fei Wang, Junshi Huang, Yan Wang
Unified image restoration (UIR) aims to recover high-quality (HQ) content from low-quality (LQ) images with different degradations using a single model. Most recent methods adapt large pretrained text-to-image (T2I) latent diffusion models for their strong capacity and generative priors.
PixelMoE introduces a pixel-space generative framework that applies LLM-style Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) to diffusion models, enabling sparse scaling of model capacity without diffusion-specific routing. The approach combines Token-Choice routing, fine-grained routed experts, a shared expert, and bias-based load balancing, while also employing Pixel-Space Hierarchical Flow Matching to adjust spatial resolution during denoising. PixelMoE outperforms dense counterparts at comparable active parameter counts, achieving strong FID scores on class-conditional ImageNet-1K.
arXiv:2609.24919v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in pixel-space diffusion models have narrowed the image quality gap with latent-space diffusion, but still converge more slowly and lag...
By Yongsheng Yu, Wei Xiong, Yichen Sheng, Shiqiu Liu, Jiebo Luo
arXiv:2505.16157v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Transformer-based models have made remarkable progress in image restoration (IR) tasks. However, the quadratic complexity of self-attention in Tran...
By Yuang Ai
arXiv:2608. 09133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image super-resolution (SR) with large generative models has recently achieved remarkable perceptual quality, yet maintaining fidelity to the LR observation remains challenging.
By Yu Shi, Yuyao Zhang, Yu-wing Tai
Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) aims to reconstruct high-quality (HQ) images from low-quality (LQ) inputs subject to diverse real-world degradations. Recent advances have leveraged the LQ inputs and natural image priors learned by Stable Diffusion models to achieve impressive results.
The paper introduces QuADA-GS, a method for Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution that dynamically densifies 2D Gaussian splatting based on low‑resolution input. By allocating Gaussians adaptively to structurally complex regions and employing a sparse communication mechanism, it balances high visual fidelity with lower computational cost. Experiments show that this approach achieves a competitive trade‑off between quality and efficiency for super‑resolution tasks.
By Giulio Federico, Giuseppe Amato, Claudio Gennaro, Fabio Carrara, Marco Di Benedetto
arXiv:2609.23169v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: High-quality texture generation is essential for creating realistic and production-ready 3D assets. Recent multi-view diffusion methods have shown prom...
By Yibo Zhang, Ze Yuan, Nan Cao, Li Zhang, Yan-Pei Cao, Yuan-Chen Guo, Rui Ma
BudgetPix introduces a compute‑adaptive tokenization framework for pixel‑space image diffusion, dynamically allocating computational resources based on visual complexity and spatial layout. It comprises an adaptive encoder using an entropy‑guided quadtree and multi‑scale patch embedder, a scale‑aware decoder, and a flexible training schedule that allows pixel‑space denoisers to operate across variable token counts. The method integrates with existing diffusion architectures, achieving comparable fidelity to larger models while using only a fraction of the compute budget, and demonstrates improved quality‑efficiency tradeoffs in both text‑to‑image and class‑conditional generation.
By Ozgur Kara, Yujia Chen, Daniel Watson, David Forsyth, James Matthew Rehg, Wen-Sheng Chu, Du Tran