Applying ViT in Generalized Few-shot Semantic Segmentation

This paper explores the capability of ViT-based models under the generalized few-shot semantic segmentation (GFSS) framework. We conduct experiments with various combinations of backbone models, including ResNets and pretrained Vision Transformer (ViT)-based models, along with decoders featuring a linear classifier, UPerNet, and Mask Transformer. The structure made of DINOv2 and linear classifier takes the lead on popular few-shot segmentation bench mark PASCAL-$5^i$, substantially outperforming the best of ResNet structure by 116% in one-shot scenario. We demonstrate the great potential of large pretrained ViT-based model on GFSS task, and expect further improvement on testing benchmarks. However, a potential caveat is that when applying pure ViT-based model and large scale ViT decoder, the model is easy to overfit.

Diffusion Cocktail: Fused Generation from Diffusion Models

Diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images and are easy to extend, making them extremely popular among active users who have created an extensive collection of diffusion models with various styles by fine-tuning base models such as Stable Diffusion. Recent work has focused on uncovering semantic and visual information encoded in various components of a diffusion model, enabling better generation quality and more fine-grained control. However, those methods target improving a single model and overlook the vastly available collection of fine-tuned diffusion models. In this work, we study the combinations of diffusion models. We propose Diffusion Cocktail (Ditail), a training-free method that can accurately transfer content information between two diffusion models. This allows us to perform diverse generations using a set of diffusion models, resulting in novel images that are unlikely to be obtained by a single model alone. We also explore utilizing Ditail for style transfer, with the target style set by a diffusion model instead of an image. Ditail offers a more detailed manipulation of the diffusion generation, thereby enabling the vast community to integrate various styles and contents seamlessly and generate any content of any style.

Towards Personalized Prompt-Model Retrieval for Generative Recommendation

Recommender Systems are built to retrieve relevant items to satisfy users' information needs. The candidate corpus usually consists of a finite set of items that are ready to be served, such as videos, products, or articles. With recent advances in Generative AI such as GPT and Diffusion models, a new form of recommendation task is yet to be explored where items are to be created by generative models with personalized prompts. Taking image generation as an example, with a single prompt from the user and access to a generative model, it is possible to generate hundreds of new images in a few minutes. How shall we attain personalization in the presence of "infinite" items? In this preliminary study, we propose a two-stage framework, namely Prompt-Model Retrieval and Generated Item Ranking, to approach this new task formulation. We release GEMRec-18K, a prompt-model interaction dataset with 18K images generated by 200 publicly-available generative models paired with a diverse set of 90 textual prompts. Our findings demonstrate the promise of generative model recommendation as a novel personalization problem and the limitations of existing evaluation metrics. We highlight future directions for the RecSys community to advance towards generative recommender systems. Our code and dataset are available at https://github.com/MAPS-research/GEMRec.