Diffusion and generative media

Image, video and audio generation — diffusion models, flow matching and the systems built on top of them.

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Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30

CXR-Retrieve: Compositional Text-to-Image Retrieval in Chest Radiography

Large chest radiography archives are difficult to search because most studies are paired only with free-text reports rather than structured clinical annotations. Vision-language models offer a natural interface for text-to-image retrieval, but current biomedical models are primarily optimized for report-to-image matching rather than for satisfying short clinical search queries.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

Two2Four: Generative Quadruped Puppeteering from Human Motion

arXiv:2607. 26108v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Realistic animal motion for virtual production is typically obtained either through motion capture of highly trained performers who accurately mimic animal behavior, or by retargeting ordinary human motion using complex control setups.

By Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Zehong Qiu, Dhruv Agrawal, Stelian Coros, Robert W. Sumner, Martin Guay, Jakob Buhmann
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

Temporally Centered SIGReg Improves Multi-Task LeWorldModel Learning: From Analysis to Method

arXiv:2607. 26924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work on LeWorldModel (LeWM) has shown that the Sketched Isotropic Gaussian Regularizer (SIGReg) enables stable end-to-end world-model learning from pixels by regularizing the latent marginal distribution toward an isotropic Gaussian, thereby preventing representation collapse.

By Chang Liu, Fei Suo, Yanzhou Jin, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Yaonan Zhu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

Learning Controlled Stochastic Differential Equations

arXiv:2411. 01982v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the problem of learning controlled stochastic differential equations (SDEs) \[ dX_t = b(t,X_t,u_t)\,dt + \sigma(t,X_t,u_t)\,dW_t, \] whose drift and diffusion depend nonlinearly on time, state, and control values.

By Luc Brogat-Motte, Riccardo Bonalli, Alessandro Rudi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

Teaching Tiny VLA Models Where to Look and How to Move

arXiv:2607. 04171v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tiny Vision-Language-Action models are appealing for real-time robotic control, but reducing model scale often weakens two capabilities essential for manipulation: task-conditioned spatial grounding and coherent action generation.

By Iok Tong Lei, Ying Jie Yap, Wei Huang, Qingchen Xie, Qianzhi Li, Yujie Zhang, Xiaolong Liu, Zhidong Deng
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 29

Temporally Centered SIGReg Improves Multi-Task LeWorldModel Learning: From Analysis to Method

Recent work on LeWorldModel (LeWM) has shown that the Sketched Isotropic Gaussian Regularizer (SIGReg) enables stable end-to-end world-model learning from pixels by regularizing the latent marginal distribution toward an isotropic Gaussian, thereby preventing representation collapse. While effective and elegant in single-task settings, this recipe does not extend reliably to multi-task training, leading to substantially worse downstream behavior-cloning performance.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 29

FreeShadow: Training-Free Shadow Removal via Illumination Transfer and Selective Content Preservation in Diffusion Models

Existing supervised and unsupervised shadow removal methods often suffer from limited generalization due to the insufficient diversity of available training datasets, while zero-shot methods tend to produce artifacts and require time-consuming test-time optimization. To address these issues, we propose FreeShadow, a training-free shadow removal method built upon pretrained diffusion models, which exploits diffusion priors for shadow removal without any training or optimization.