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Senmao Li

11 accepted papers

2026

FasterVAR: Plug-and-Play Acceleration for Visual Autoregressive Models

ICML 2026poster

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) modeling departs from the next-token prediction paradigm of traditional Autoregressive (AR) models through next-scale prediction, enabling high-quality image generation. However, the VAR paradigm suffers from sharply increased computational complexity and running time at …

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2026

WaDi: Weight Direction-aware Distillation for One-step Image Synthesis

CVPR 2026

Despite the impressive performance of diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion (SD) in image generation, their slow inference limits practical deployment. Recent works accelerate inference by distilling multi-step diffusion into one-step generators. To better understand the distillation mechanism,

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2025

$InterLCM$: Low-Quality Images as Intermediate States of Latent Consistency Models for Effective Blind Face Restoration

ICLR 2025poster

Diffusion priors have been used for blind face restoration (BFR) by fine-tuning diffusion models (DMs) on restoration datasets to recover low-quality images. However, the naive application of DMs presents several key limitations. (i) The diffusion prior has inferior semantic consistency (e.g., ID,…

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2025

Free-Lunch Color-Texture Disentanglement for Stylized Image Generation

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advances in Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have transformed image generation, enabling significant progress in stylized generation using only a few style reference images. However, current diffusion-based methods struggle with \textit{fine-grained} style customization due to challenges…

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2025

From Cradle to Cane: A Two-Pass Framework for High-Fidelity Lifespan Face Aging

NeurIPS 2025poster

Face aging has become a crucial task in computer vision, with applications ranging from entertainment to healthcare. However, existing methods struggle with achieving a realistic and seamless transformation across the entire lifespan, especially when handling large age gaps or extreme head poses. Th…

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2025

Not All Parameters Matter: Masking Diffusion Models for Enhancing Generation Ability

CVPR 2025poster

The diffusion models, in early stages focus on constructing basic image structures, while the refined details, including local features and textures, are generated in later stages. Thus the same network layers are forced to learn both structural and textural information simultaneously, significant…

2025

One-Prompt-One-Story: Free-Lunch Consistent Text-to-Image Generation Using a Single Prompt

ICLR 2025spotlight

Text-to-image generation models can create high-quality images from input prompts. However, they struggle to support the consistent generation of identity-preserving requirements for storytelling. Existing approaches to this problem typically require extensive training in large datasets or additiona…

2025

One-Way Ticket: Time-Independent Unified Encoder for Distilling Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

CVPR 2025poster

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have made remarkable advancements in generative modeling; however, they face a trade-off between inference speed and image quality, posing challenges for efficient deployment. Existing distilled T2I models can generate high-fidelity images with fewer sampling ste…

2024

Faster Diffusion: Rethinking the Role of the Encoder for Diffusion Model Inference

NeurIPS 2024poster

One of the main drawback of diffusion models is the slow inference time for image generation. Among the most successful approaches to addressing this problem are distillation methods. However, these methods require considerable computational resources. In this paper, we take another approach to diff…

2024

Get What You Want, Not What You Don't: Image Content Suppression for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

ICLR 2024poster

The success of recent text-to-image diffusion models is largely due to their capacity to be guided by a complex text prompt, which enables users to precisely describe the desired content. However, these models struggle to effectively suppress the generation of undesired content, which is explicitly…

2023

3D-Aware Multi-Class Image-to-Image Translation With NeRFs

CVPR 2023poster

Recent advances in 3D-aware generative models (3D-aware GANs) combined with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have achieved impressive results. However no prior works investigate 3D-aware GANs for 3D consistent multi-class image-to-image (3D-aware I2I) translation. Naively using 2D-I2I translation metho…