arXiv Computation and Language

VOLTA: Improving Generative Diversity by Variational Mutual Information Maximizing Autoencoder

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Diversifying Long Prompt Image Generation through Structured Prompt Embedding Space Sampling

The paper investigates how long, richly detailed prompts cause modern text-to-image models to lose diversity, even when many visual aspects are unspecified. It introduces PromptMoG, a training‑free method that samples prompt embeddings from a Mixture‑of‑Gaussians distribution to restore diversity while preserving semantic fidelity. The authors also present LPD‑Bench, a benchmark for evaluating fidelity and diversity under long, semantically dense prompts, and demonstrate PromptMoG’s effectiveness on four large diffusion models.

By Bo-Kai Ruan, Teng-Fang Hsiao, Ling Lo, Yi-Lun Wu, Hong-Han Shuai
arXiv AI
Aug 12

JEPA-DNA: Grounding Genomic Foundation Models through Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures

arXiv:2602. 17162v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Genomic Foundation Models (GFMs) typically rely on Masked Language Modeling (MLM) or Next-Token Prediction (NTP) to learn the "Laws of Nature".

By Ariel Larey, Elay Dahan, Amit Bleiweiss, Raizy Kellerman, Guy Leib, Omri Nayshool, Dan Ofer, Tal Zinger, Dan Dominissini, Gideon Rechavi, Nicole Bussola, Simon Lee, Shane O'Connell, Dung Hoang, Marissa Wirth, Alexander W. Charney, Nati Daniel, Yoli Shavit
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

Repurposing Pre-trained LLMs as High Fidelity Continuous Text Autoencoders

The paper introduces LLMAE, a technique that transforms a pretrained decoder-only language model into a continuous text autoencoder by inserting a fixed-length latent bottleneck into its internal activations. Using a 270M Gemma 3 model with structured attention masks, LoRA adaptation, and KL regularization, LLMAE achieves near-perfect reconstruction of text sequences up to 1024 tokens. The authors further show that the resulting latent representation can be leveraged to train a latent text diffusion model for detailed image captioning, demonstrating downstream utility.

By Arkanath Pathak, Unnat Jain, Alexander C. Berg
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

PAPT++: Risk-Aware Adversarial Tuning and Generation for Single Domain Generalization

PAPT++ is a risk‑aware adversarial generation‑training framework designed to improve single domain generalization. It learns diverse semantic reference images per class and uses them as denoising targets in classifier‑guided diffusion synthesis, thereby generating challenging yet semantically consistent samples. These samples are iteratively combined with source data to update the classifier, progressively exposing it to difficult variations and enhancing generalization performance on standard benchmarks.

By Zhipeng Xu, De Cheng, Xinyang Jiang, Lingfeng He, Huaijie Wang, Dongsheng Li, Nannan Wang, Xinbo Gao
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Evaluating the Diversity of AI-Generated Content with Diversity Profiles

The paper argues that measuring diversity in AI-generated content using a single scalar score is inherently ambiguous and often misleading. It reviews existing diversity metrics, demonstrates their limitations through axiomatic and empirical analyses, and introduces diversity profiles—curve-valued, condition-aware summaries that evaluate diversity across a range of thresholds, scales, exponents, or orders. These profiles reveal whether comparisons are robust across resolutions or depend on arbitrary parameter choices, offering a more transparent framework for generative AI evaluation.

By Xiuyuan Hu, Xuege Hou, Guoqing Liu, Yang Zhao, Jieran Li, Dongbiao Sun, Jos\'e Miguel Hern\'andez-Lobato, Hao Zhang, Xue Liu