Summary of [mask] Is All You Need, by Vincent Tao Hu et al.
[MASK] is All You Need
by Vincent Tao Hu, Björn Ommer
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel framework is proposed to connect two popular generative modeling paradigms: masked generative models and non-autoregressive diffusion models. By leveraging discrete-state models, the authors unify these approaches in a scalable manner, enabling the exploration of various design spaces including timestep-independence, noise schedule, temperature, guidance strength, and more. This framework, called Discrete Interpolants, is applied to discriminative tasks such as image segmentation by treating them as unmasking processes from [MASK] tokens. The authors demonstrate state-of-the-art or competitive performance on benchmarks like ImageNet256, MS COCO, and FaceForensics, highlighting the potential of discrete-state models in generative and discriminative tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way to make pictures is developed by combining two popular methods: masked generative models and non-autoregressive diffusion models. This new method uses special computer models that have many states, like a coin flipper with many outcomes. By using these special models, the authors can try different settings to see what works best, like adjusting the temperature or noise level. They also show how this method can be used for tasks like image segmentation by treating it as a puzzle to solve. The results are impressive, beating previous methods on famous datasets. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoregressive » Image segmentation » Mask » Temperature
