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Sayak Paul

11 accepted papers

2026

A Noise is Worth Diffusion Guidance

ICLR 2026poster

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable image generation capabilities, but their performance heavily relies on classifier-free guidance (CFG). While CFG significantly enhances image quality, evaluating both conditional and unconditional models at every denoising step leads to substantial compu…

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2026

Factuality Matters: When Image Generation and Editing Meet Structured Visuals

ICLR 2026poster

While modern visual generation models excel at creating aesthetically pleasing natural images, they struggle with producing or editing structured visuals like charts, diagrams, and mathematical figures, which demand composition planning, text rendering, and multimodal reasoning for factual fidelity.…

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2026

From Statics to Dynamics: Physics-Aware Image Editing with Latent Transition Priors

ICML 2026poster

Instruction-based image editing has achieved remarkable success in semantic alignment, yet state-of-the-art models frequently fail to render physically plausible results when editing involves complex causal dynamics, such as refraction or material deformation. We attribute this limitation to the dom…

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2026

Margin-Aware Preference Optimization for Aligning Diffusion Models Without Reference

AAAI 2026technical

Modern preference alignment methods, such as DPO, rely on divergence regularization to a reference model for training stability—but this creates a fundamental problem we call "reference mismatch." In this paper, we investigate the negative impacts of reference mismatch in aligning text-to-image (T2I

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2025

Exploring the Deep Fusion of Large Language Models and Diffusion Transformers for Text-to-Image Synthesis

CVPR 2025poster

This paper does not describe a new method; instead, it provides a thorough exploration of an important yet understudied design space related to recent advances in text-to-image synthesis---specifically, the deep fusion of large language models (LLMs) with diffusion transformers (DiTs) for multimodal…

2025

From Reflection to Perfection: Scaling Inference-Time Optimization for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Reflection Tuning

ICCV 2025poster

Recent text-to-image diffusion models achieve impressive visual quality through extensive scaling of training data and model parameters, yet they often struggle with complex scenes and fine-grained details. Inspired by the self-reflection capabilities emergent in large language models, we propose Re…

2025

LlamaDuo: LLMOps Pipeline for Seamless Migration from Service LLMs to Small-Scale Local LLMs

ACL 2025long

The widespread adoption of cloud-based proprietary large language models (LLMs) has introduced significant challenges, including operational dependencies, privacy concerns, and the necessity of continuous internet connectivity. In this work, we introduce an LLMOps pipeline, “LlamaDuo”, for the seaml…

2025

SANA-Sprint: One-Step Diffusion with Continuous-Time Consistency Distillation

ICCV 2025poster

This paper presents SANA-Sprint, an efficient diffusion model for ultra-fast text-to-image (T2I) generation. SANA-Sprint is built on a pre-trained foundation model and augmented with hybrid distillation, dramatically reducing inference steps from 20 to 1-4.We introduce three key innovations: (1) We…

2025

Where and How to Perturb: On the Design of Perturbation Guidance in Diffusion and Flow Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent guidance methods in diffusion models steer reverse sampling by perturbing the model to construct an implicit weak model and guide generation away from it. Among these approaches, attention perturbation has demonstrated strong empirical performance in unconditional scenarios where classifier-f…

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2024

Getting it Right: Improving Spatial Consistency in Text-to-Image Models

ECCV 2024poster

"One of the key shortcomings in current text-to-image (T2I) models is their inability to consistently generate images which faithfully follow the spatial relationships specified in the text prompt. In this paper, we offer a comprehensive investigation of this limitation, while also developing datase…