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PixGS: Pixel-Space Diffusion for Direct 3D Gaussian Splat Generation
2026-07-02 07:18:37Duy Cao, Phong Nguyen-HaAbstract
Recent advances in 3D content generation from text or images have achieved impressive results, yet view inconsistency from 2D generators and the scarcity of high-quality 3D data remain significant bottlenecks. Existing solutions typically adapt large-scale pre-trained text-to-image latent diffusion models to generate 3D Gaussian Splats (3DGS). However, these approaches often rely on training complex cascade pipelines that are computationally expensive and scalability-limited. Most critically, the quality of generated 3D assets is inherently constrained by each component capacity and compressed latent space, leading to decoding artifacts and accumulated errors. To address these limitations, we propose PixGS, a single-stage pipeline for direct high-quality 3DGS generation, which leverages recent advances in pixel-space diffusion to bypass lossy latent compression while still benefiting from the vast 2D generative priors. By directly denoising 3D Gaussian attributes at each timestep, our method enables precise, splat-level regularization of both appearance and geometry. Furthermore, we introduce a comprehensive supervision strategy that incorporates surface normals, depth, and high-frequency structural information, which is often overlooked in prior works. Experiments demonstrate that PixGS outperforms current state-of-the-art methods while maintaining a fast inference speed (1s on a single A100 GPU), offering a robust and efficient alternative to multi-stage generation pipelines.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01803
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Subliminal Clocks: Latent Time Modelling in Diffusion Language Models
2026-07-02 06:45:42Maximo Rulli (Sapienza University of Rome), Thomas Fontanari (Sapienza University of Rome), Simone Petruzzi (Sapienza University of Rome), Federico Alvetreti (Sapienza University of Rome), Giorgio Strano (Sapienza University of Rome), Donato Crisostomi (Sapienza University of Rome), Giorgos Nikolaou (EPFL), Tommaso Mencattini (EPFL), Andrea Santilli (Independent researcher), Emanuele Rodol\`a (Sapienza University of Rome), Simone Scardapane (Sapienza University of Rome), Alessio Devoto (Independent researcher)Abstract
Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive models. Unlike standard diffusion-based approaches, DLMs are not explicitly conditioned on a timestep, raising a natural question: do these models internally represent denoising progress, and how is such information used downstream? In this work, we show that DLMs do in fact encode a latent representation related to the diffusion timestep within their residual streams. We find that this signal can be reliably extracted using probes across layers, indicating that denoising progress is decodable from internal activations. We further demonstrate that steering the model along a low-dimensional subspace associated with the inferred timestep allows us to systematically modulate its notion of denoising progress, leading to predictable changes in model confidence and entropy. Finally, we analyse the geometry of the identified representation, showing that it exhibits structured and interpretable properties in activation space, and shedding light on how such a signal is processed by these models.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01774
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ProSAC-CT: Progressive Spectral-Anatomical Co-Guided Multi-Stage Diffusion Model for Low-Dose CT Denoising
2026-07-02 06:13:43Xuepeng Liu, Zetong Liu, Renyiming Li, Yan Li, Ruiyu Li, Ruili Li, Jiayi Ding, Eichi TakayaAbstract
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but introduces stronger quantum noise, streak artifacts, and local texture degradation, which can obscure anatomical boundaries and weaken low-contrast structures. Diffusion models are promising for LDCT denoising by progressively recovering normal-dose CT (NDCT) images from degraded LDCT inputs, but existing methods often suffer from insufficient anatomical guidance, uncertain frequency-dependent recovery, and uniform reverse-process modeling. We propose ProSAC-CT, a progressive spectral-anatomical co-guided multi-stage diffusion model for image-domain LDCT denoising. ProSAC-CT integrates an anatomical-prior-guided conditioning (APGC) module, a residual frequency-domain decoupling stage (RFDDS), and a time-step-decoupling denoising decoder (TD3). APGC extracts LDCT-derived structural guidance, RFDDS enhances frequency-aware representations, and TD3 assigns them to different reverse-diffusion stages for anatomical stabilization, boundary refinement, and fine-detail recovery. Experiments on four LDCT degradation benchmarks show that ProSAC-CT improves image fidelity, structural similarity, perceptual quality, and information preservation over representative methods while better preserving boundary-sensitive anatomical details. Downstream anatomical-region classification on Mayo-2020 further indicates that ProSAC-CT retains task-relevant anatomical information, supporting its practical use for low-dose CT denoising.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01756
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Plug-and-Play Volumetric Reconstruction for Compressive Sensing Light-Sheet Microscopy
2026-07-02 03:26:30Jianqing Jia, Yi Gong, Xinyuan Zhang, Jichen Chai, Yichen Ding, Yifei LouAbstract
We investigate volumetric reconstruction for compressive sensing light-sheet microscopy (CS-LSM), where fast volumetric imaging is achieved by encoding multiple axial planes into each camera exposure. To recover the underlying volume from highly multiplexed measurements, we propose a plug-and-play (PnP) framework that flexibly incorporates any user-specified denoiser into the reconstruction process. Building on a slice-based formulation, we further introduce an axial-coupled model that exploits correlations between adjacent slices to improve volumetric continuity. For efficient computation, we derive a Woodbury-based update for the data-consistency step in both the slice-based and axial-coupled formulations, and employ a Gauss-Seidel sweep for the denoising step in the axial-coupled model. Under a weakly convex regularization assumption, we establish subsequential convergence of the proposed algorithm. Experiments on synthetic and real zebrafish-heart data demonstrate that the proposed framework successfully recovers cellular structures from compressed measurements, and provide practical insights into the comparative performance of commonly used denoisers within the PnP framework under the CS-LSM setup.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01654
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Anti-Prompt: Image Protection against Text-Guided Image-to-Video Generation
2026-07-01 22:00:18Yeonghwan Song, Chanhui Lee, Jinsoo Park, Jeany SonAbstract
Recent advances in Image-to-Video generation allow a single image to be animated into a convincing video under text guidance, raising serious copyright and privacy risks. We propose Anti-Prompt, an image protection approach that injects imperceptible perturbations into an image, inducing visible inconsistencies and structural failures in text-guided I2V generation. Our method is motivated by a simple empirical observation. When text guidance is removed from modern I2V models, generation quality degrades markedly, not only in motion realism but also in subject preservation, structural coherence, and temporal consistency. Building on this insight, Anti-Prompt exploits the model reliance on textual guidance by attenuating text-conditioned interactions during denoising while strengthening visual-only pathways. To further systematically evaluate protection effectiveness, we introduce a Video-LLM-assisted evaluation protocol that provides interpretable, frame-grounded analyses of generation artifacts and inconsistencies. Experiments on two representative I2V architectures demonstrate that our method achieves strong protection performance while improving efficiency and cross-model transferability.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01499
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Discrete Diffusion Language Models for Interactive Radiology Report Drafting
2026-07-01 19:59:09Max Van Puyvelde, Halil Ibrahim Gulluk, Wim Van Criekinge, Olivier GevaertAbstract
Diffusion language models, which generate text by denoising a token canvas bidirectionally instead of emitting tokens left to right, have become competitive with autoregressive (AR) generation. Medical foundation models, however, remain almost entirely autoregressive. We adapt a mixture-of-experts diffusion language model, DiffusionGemma-26B, and benchmark it against its same-size AR sibling Gemma-4-26B under an identical LoRA recipe on medical visual question answering datasets, scored by a verbosity-robust LLM judge. Diffusion matches or exceeds AR on all of them, and the finetuned model (3.8B active) is competitive with frontier vision-language models; its decoding is also 3.5-4.4x faster. Beyond this parity, the diffusion model offers a drafting capability AR lacks: any-order infill. Because the canvas is denoised bidirectionally, a radiologist can fix report fragments and have the model fill the text between them, an operation inherent to diffusion but not to autoregression, which is subpar at it. This suits real reports, which are often terse or inconsistent across clinicians and institutions.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01436
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Neuro-Symbolic Safety Guidance for Vision-Language-Action Models via Constrained Flow Matching
2026-07-01 18:41:33William English, Hao Zheng, Rickard EwetzAbstract
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated promising generalization capabilities across robotic manipulation tasks, yet their real-world deployment remains limited by the lack of effective safety measures. Specifically, existing safety measures only prevent collisions caused by the robot's next action. In this paper, we propose a neuro-symbolic safety guidance mechanism for flow matching based VLAs that enables predictive collision avoidance. Flow matching based VLAs determine the next actions by predicting a trajectory (a sequence of actions) through an iterative neural flow matching process. Our method formulates safety enforcement as a minimum-norm constrained optimization problem that corrects safety violations during the denoising process of noisy intermediate trajectory predictions. By analyzing predicted trajectories and applying corrections during iterative denoising, our approach anticipates collisions before they become unavoidable. This interleaving of symbolic constraint satisfaction with neural trajectory generation enables predictive collision avoidance rather than reactive intervention. On the SafeLIBERO benchmark, our method achieves 82.8% collision avoidance and 81.6% task success, a 6.3% and 19.8% improvement respectively over single-step methods, with the largest gains on long-horizon tasks where compounding distribution shift is most pronounced. Video demonstrations of our approach are included on our project page at this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01378
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MapDreamer: Aerial Imagery Conditioned Latent Diffusion for Lane-Level Map Generation
2026-07-01 18:33:38Julian Brandes, Philipp Crocoll, Wolfram BurgardAbstract
High definition map generation is essential for autonomous driving, yet remains a labor-intensive process at scale. We present MapDreamer, a generative diffusion model that synthesizes lane-level vector maps with explicit topology directly from a single aerial image. MapDreamer learns a compact latent representation of lane centerlines and their topological relations using a variational autoencoder and predicts graphs with a transformer-based latent diffusion model. To align generated maps with the observed scene, we condition each denoising step on dense aerial features injected through cross-attention. To handle the varying number of lanes across scenes, we propose a lane cardinality module paired with background ghost lane latents, a learned buffer that prevents slot collapse during diffusion. Furthermore, we introduce a sliding-window global graph aggregation strategy that stitches local tiles into city-scale maps while preserving connectivity through encoded lane boundaries. Experiments on UrbanLaneGraph derived from Argoverse 2 show improved geometric and topological fidelity over non-generative baselines.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01370
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Diffusion-GR2: Diffusion Generative Reasoning Re-ranker
2026-07-01 17:02:20Zhuoxuan Zhang (Yang), Kangqi Ni (Yang), Yuhang Chen (Yang), Mingfu Liang (Yang), Xiaohan Wei (Yang), Yunchen Pu (Yang), Fei Tian (Yang), Chonglin Sun (Yang), Frank Shyu (Yang), Adam (Yang), Song, Sandeep Pandey, Luke Simon, Tianlong Chen, Xi LiuAbstract
Generative reasoning re-rankers achieve strong recommendation accuracy by emitting a chain-of-thought before re-ordering a candidate list, but they are slow at inference: an autoregressive (AR) decoder spends one sequential forward pass per reasoning token, and the reasoning trace far exceeds the ranking it produces. To reduce this cost, block-diffusion language models decode many positions in parallel over a few denoising steps and are substantially faster, yet naively converting an AR re-ranker into one opens two accuracy gaps: (1) a structural gap: answer positions are denoised in parallel and scored independently, so the decoder emits invalid rankings (duplicated, dropped, or out-of-set identifiers) that AR avoids through left-to-right masking; and (2) a distributional gap: fine-tuning the converted model on fixed teacher trajectories is off-policy relative to its own decoding at inference, leaving a residual accuracy gap. To close both gaps while keeping the speedup, we propose \textbf{Diffusion-GR2}, a recipe that converts our AR reasoning re-ranker (GR2) into a block-diffusion re-ranker. First, conversion fine-tuning (CFT) adapts the AR-initialized diffusion model to denoise the answer into a valid permutation on its own, without an external constrained decoder. Next, on-policy distillation (OPD) then supervises the model on its own decoded trajectories with dense per-token targets from the AR teacher. Finally, we apply a reinforcement-learning (RL) stage against a re-ranking reward on top of OPD's on-policy policy. Experiments on Amazon Beauty demonstrate that Diffusion-GR2 recovers to near-parity with the AR re-ranker, while block-parallel decoding raises decode throughput by $2.4$--$3.5\times$ at the model's reasoning output length. Ablations show that CFT recovers most of the conversion gap, and that on-policy distillation further closes it to the AR reference.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01170
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CPDDNet: Color-Polarization Denoising and Demosaicking Network
2026-07-01 15:52:03Qihang Zhang, Yusuke Monno, Masayuki Tanaka, Masatoshi OkutomiAbstract
Color-polarization imaging using a color-polarization filter array (CPFA) sensor captures both texture (color intensity) and physical (polarization) information of the scene in a single shot, enabling various applications in computer vision. However, the raw mosaic output from a CPFA sensor often suffers from severe noise and resolution loss, especially under low-light conditions. Existing methods generally focus on either denoising or demosaicking tasks, failing to capture the coupling between them and neglecting shared low-level features. In this paper, we propose a color-polarization denoising and demosaicking network (CPDDNet), which is a joint framework that performs noise removal and CPFA interpolation using a feature fusion module that retains the features from the CPFA raw data at both the denoising and the demosaicking stages. Experimental results demonstrate that CPDDNet significantly enhances image quality and polarization parameter accuracy, outperforming existing approaches on a real dataset.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01100
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AVSR-Diff: Scale-Agnostic Diffusion Priors for Temporally Consistent Arbitrary-Scale Video Super-Resolution
2026-07-01 14:22:22Geunhyuk Youk, Jeonghyeok Do, Dayeon Kim, Jihyong Oh, Munchurl KimAbstract
Diffusion models have significantly advanced video super-resolution (VSR) but remain largely constrained to fixed upsampling scales. Conversely, while coordinate-based arbitrary-scale VSR methods offer scale flexibility, they inherently suffer from severe over-smoothing at large scaling factors. Integrating generative priors with continuous decoding is promising but currently hindered by severe temporal flickering caused by the stochasticity of diffusion sampling. To address this, we propose AVSR-Diff (Arbitrary-scale Video Super-Resolution with Diffusion), a novel decoupled framework that separates scale-agnostic latent denoising from continuous coordinate rendering, effectively avoiding computationally heavy resolution-specific sampling. Our approach introduces a Temporally-Gated Feature Recurrence (TGFR) module to extract strictly aligned, temporally consistent latent priors. Furthermore, we design a continuous video VAE decoder incorporating a Scale-Aware Fourier Refinement (SAFR) module to dynamically adapt frequency components to any target scale. Extensive experiments demonstrate that AVSR-Diff consistently preserves high-frequency details and strong temporal stability across various scales, surpassing state-of-the-art arbitrary-scale baselines. Remarkably, our framework outperforms recent fixed-scale generative models even on their native resolution.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00987
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Pano2World: End-to-End 3D Generation via Unified Multi-View Sequences
2026-07-01 11:54:02Zhenjia Li, Jinrang Jia, Yifeng ShiAbstract
A single panorama captures the full visual sphere from one camera center, yet confines users to looking around in place without enabling true scene exploration. Converting a single panorama into a persistent, renderable 3D representation for free-viewpoint navigation has attracted growing interest; existing methods either adopt iterative per-view completion that propagates inpainting results to update the underlying geometry, leading to progressive error accumulation and cumbersome multi-step pipelines, or leverage the temporal consistency priors of video generation models, yet the continuous-trajectory constraint intrinsic to such models limits their flexibility in covering scenes from multiple directions simultaneously. We present Pano2World, which takes a single indoor panorama as input and directly outputs a persistent, explorable 3D Gaussian scene. Given the source panorama, Pano2World first reconstructs a coarse 3D Gaussian proxy and renders it at adaptively sampled nearby poses to obtain geometrically aligned guidance panoramas; a panoramic diffusion model then jointly denoises all target views via View-Aware Attention Routing, where each target view simultaneously receives geometric constraints from its corresponding guidance panorama and global semantic guidance from the source panorama, naturally enforcing cross-view consistency. To avoid the information loss incurred by decoding the multi-view hidden features formed during joint denoising back to the pixel domain via VAE, we introduce Latent Feature Adapter, a geometry-aware bridge module that directly distills these hidden features into a scene latent, subsequently decoded into the final 3D Gaussian scene. Experiments demonstrate that Pano2World significantly outperforms existing methods on the multi-position panoramic novel-view synthesis benchmark.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00832
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Training-Free Debiasing of Diffusion Models via CLIP-Guided Denoising Optimization
2026-07-01 11:41:40Dain Kim, Jinseo Kim, Sungyong BaikAbstract
Text-to-image diffusion models achieve impressive visual quality, yet demographic bias remains a challenge, as neutral prompts consistently produce stereotypical representations across gender and race. Existing approaches remain limited by costly retraining or by inference-time interventions that often degrade image quality and semantic alignment. We propose Text Embedding Steering (TES), a training-free framework that mitigates demographic bias by directly optimizing conditional text embeddings during the diffusion process. We show that a two-stage strategy - early-stage global alignment followed by iterative denoising-time refinement with CLIP-based feedback - enables stable and controllable attribute steering without modifying model parameters. Extensive experiments on Stable Diffusion demonstrate that TES outperforms existing training-free baselines in fairness while maintaining competitive image quality. These results highlight that inference-time text embedding optimization is a practical and scalable solution for fairness-aware generation in diffusion models.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00817
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Self-conditioned Flow Map Language Models via Fixed-point Flows
2026-07-01 10:02:20Jaehoon Yoo, Wonjung Kim, Floor Eijkelboom, Chanhyuk Lee, Nicholas M. Boffi, Seunghoon Hong, Jinwoo KimAbstract
Self-conditioning is a core technique that enhances continuous flow-based language models, where the model learns to denoise generated text by conditioning on its own denoising estimate. While empirically successful, its performance improvements are poorly understood. Moreover, there is growing interest in the use of few-step generators based on flow maps, for which how to leverage self-conditioning is unclear. Here, we show that flow language models with self-conditioning solve a fixed-point iteration that bootstraps the performance of the learned denoiser. We use this viewpoint to formulate fixed-point flows, a two-dimensional class of self-conditioned flows, where the first dimension represents the flow process and the second represents the fixed-point iteration. We show that fixed-point flows define valid flow maps, and show that they can be distilled from self-conditioned flow models by compressing both fixed-point iterations and the flow process, the former with fixed-point distillation and the latter with flow map distillation. Our resulting flow map language model, FMLM$^\star$, outperforms state-of-the-art self-conditioned models and few-step models in one- and few-step generation on OpenWebText. Code is available at this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00714
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AnF-DiffPET: Anatomy- and Frequency-Guided Diffusion for PET/CT Denoising
2026-07-01 06:44:10Xuepeng Liu, Ruili Li, Zetong Liu, Renyiming Li, Yan Li, Yin Dai, Chao Li, Yueyang TengAbstract
Positron emission tomography (PET) provides essential functional information for disease assessment, however reducing injected activity or acquisition time produces low-dose (LD) PET with stronger count dependent noise and less reliable uptake quantification. Diffusion models offer a promising solution for PET denoising by progressively recovering high-dose (HD) PET images from LD inputs. However, LD-to-HD PET denoising is still challenging due to insufficient anatomical guidance, unstable multi-scale feature propagation, and uncertain frequency domain uptake recovery. We propose AnF-DiffPET, an anatomy- and frequency-guided diffusion framework for computed tomography (CT) conditioned LD PET denoising. The framework integrates Anatomical-Frequency Guidance (AFG), Multi-Scale Cross-Transformer Reconstruction (MSCTR), and Frequency-Contrastive Hard Mining (FCHM) to enhance anatomy aware feature modulation and frequency domain consistency during denoising. Experimental results across four PET/CT datasets show that the proposed method improves image fidelity, anatomical consistency, and quantitative fidelity over representative CNN-based, GAN-based, transformer-based, and diffusion-based methods. The code and trained models will be publicly released upon acceptance.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00509
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Personalization as Inverse Planning: Learning Latent Design Intents for Agentic Slide Generation via Structural Denoising
2026-07-01 04:05:47Tianci Liu, Zihan Dong, Linjun Zhang, Haoyu Wang, jing Gao, Emre Kiciman, Ranveer Chandra, Wei-Ting ChenAbstract
Slide design requires personalizing both deck themes and page layouts. Yet, current AI agent-based methods struggle with fine-grained, page-level design. Solely relying on prespecified templates or user verbose instructions, they fail to capture latent design intents, leaving Page-level Slide Personalization (PSP) unresolved. To close this gap, this work formulates PSP as an inverse planning problem. We propose to learn a design intent without assuming any knowledge of the specific executing tools (e.g., PowerPoint, Beamer) being used. However, relinquishing control over these tools makes the problem intractable to optimize end-to-end. To overcome this, we propose SPIRE, a principled framework to solve PSP approximately. By intentionally corrupting the visual structures of clean slides, SPIRE creates a verifiable task to denoise the corruption, whereby two agents learn to collaboratively refine executable designs via reinforcement learning (RL). We present a proof that structural denoising is a consistent surrogate for PSP, and that the multi-agent formulation strictly reduces policy gradient variance in RL. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of SPIRE.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00407
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RotateAttention: RoPE-Aware Rotation and Range Rectification for INT4 Quantized Attention in Video Generation
2026-07-01 02:44:10Yaofu Liu, Wanli Lan, Jinxi Li, Binhang Yuan, Harry YangAbstract
In \textbf{DiT-based video generation models equipped with 3D Rotary Position Embeddings (3D RoPE)}, the attention mechanism remains a primary computational bottleneck due to its quadratic complexity with respect to sequence length. While quantized \textbf{FlashAttention} offers a promising path toward hardware acceleration, existing low-bit quantization methods overlook two critical challenges in this setting: \textbf{1)} applying online rotation matrices -- a widely used technique for mitigating outliers in Queries ($Q$) and Keys ($K$) -- is difficult to reconcile with \textbf{RoPE}; and \textbf{2)} the non-negative attention matrix $P = \exp(QK - \max(QK))$ makes symmetric quantization waste half of the 4-bit dynamic range. In this work, we observe that the outlier distributions of $Q$ and $K$ are strongly affected by the dimensional partitioning of \textbf{3D RoPE}. Based on this finding, we propose \textbf{RotateAttention}, an efficient \textbf{mixed-precision INT4 FlashAttention} framework tailored for \textbf{DiT-based video generation models with 3D RoPE}, using selective \textbf{FP16 fallback} for accuracy-sensitive attention blocks and denoising steps. RotateAttention introduces two core techniques: \textbf{1) RoPE-aware Rotation}, which employs either mergeable rotation matrices that can be fused into RoPE or negligible-overhead matrices to mitigate RoPE-induced outliers in $Q$ and $K$; and \textbf{2) Range-optimized $P$ Quantization}, which uses fixed scales and zero-points to fully exploit the \textbf{INT4 numerical range} with minimal computational overhead. Experiments show that \textbf{RotateAttention} preserves video generation quality nearly identical to full-precision baselines while achieving up to 1.68$\times$ end-to-end speedup and 2.2$\times$ kernel-level acceleration.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02584
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LuxEmo: Expressive Text-to-Speech Corpus for Luxembourgish
2026-06-30 16:53:15Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Sandipana DowerahAbstract
State-of-the-art speech datasets predominantly focus on widely spoken languages, often overlooking low-resource languages such as Luxembourgish, which remain underrepresented in speech technology research. In this work, we introduce LuxEmo, a 21-hour conversational expressive speech corpus for Luxembourgish with 4 emotion categories. LuxEmo is derived from Radio Télévision Luxembourg (RTL) youth broadcasts, using automated detection followed by human validation. We propose a semi-automatic curation workflow combining voice activity detection, denoising, language identification, LuxASR-based segmentation, automatic emotion prediction, lexical cues, and targeted human review. Additionally, we benchmark five expressive TTS systems covering German-based cross-lingual transfer, multilingual Luxembourgish support, Luxembourgish adaptation, and non-parametric prosody transfer. Performance is evaluated using both objective metrics and human evaluation.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31947
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Joint Medical Image Enhancement and Segmentation with Diffusion-based Symbiotic Information Interaction
2026-06-30 07:50:44Ying Chen, Jinyue Li, Qiankun LiAbstract
Image quality is critical for accurate medical diagnosis. However, MRI, CT, and ultrasound images are often of low resolution and quality due to cost constraints, complicating the visualization of key anatomical structures and lesions. While such limitations are common in practice, traditional methods treat image enhancement as a separate preprocessing step, failing to fully leverage its potential synergy with image segmentation. To address this, we propose DiSIINet (Diffusion-based Symbiotic Information Interaction Network), which is built on the principle that enhancement and segmentation should mutually reinforce each other in a unified model. Based on Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIM), DiSIINet integrates an enhancement branch and a segmentation branch. These branches interact through a novel Symbiotic Information Interaction (SII) module, which facilitates dynamic, feature-level information exchange via cross-attention during the reverse diffusion process. This design enables both tasks to iteratively improve each other. The DDIM backbone ensures high-quality output and efficient inference through deterministic sampling. Experiments on multi-modal medical datasets (MRI, CT, ultrasound) show that DiSIINet achieves significant performance improvements compared to sequential or independent enhancement and segmentation approaches. The code is available at: this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00058
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SwiftAudio: Data-Efficient Caption-Only Distillation for One-Step Text-to-Audio Diffusion-based Generation
2026-06-30 07:36:10Binh Mai, Tran Quoc Bao Le, Hung Dinh, Cong TranAbstract
Diffusion-based text-to-audio (TTA) models achieve impressive synthesis quality but suffer from high inference latency due to iterative multi-step denoising. Existing one-step approaches alleviate this issue but still rely on paired text--audio data during distillation. To address these limitations, we propose SwiftAudio, a one-step TTA framework that performs audio-free distillation from a pretrained diffusion teacher using only text captions. Specifically, we adapt Variational Score Distillation (VSD) to the audio domain and introduce a temporal smoothness regularization objective to encourage coherent latent audio representations. This design enables the student model to inherit the teacher's generative prior without requiring paired audio supervision and allows effective training with only approximately 45K captions. Experiments on AudioCaps and Clotho demonstrate that SwiftAudio achieves state-of-the-art performance among strict one-step methods and substantially narrows the gap to multi-step diffusion systems. Project page: this https URL
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31259
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