Visual Generative Modeling: What’s After Diffusion?

CVPR 2025 Workshop

06/12/2025 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Room 103 A

About VGM at CVPR 2025

In recent years, diffusion models have rapidly overtaken previous methods to become the dominant approach in visual generative modeling, with widespread applications in generating images, videos, 3D objects, and more. However, these models also come with notable limitations, such as slow generation speeds, limited human intervention during the generation process, and challenges in modeling complex distributions like long videos.

This year, our Visual Generative Modeling workshop at CVPR aims to explore what lies beyond diffusion models in visual generative modeling. We will discuss novel insights, alternative approaches, and new possibilities in modeling and generating visual data. Join us for a full-day event featuring keynote talks from both academia and industry -- all designed to ignite innovative ideas and novel research in visual generative modeling.

Schedule

TimeSessionSpeakerAffiliation
09:00–09:15Welcome & Opening RemarksTianhong LiMIT
09:15–09:45After Diffusion ModelsBill FreemanMIT
09:45–10:15Controllable, Intuitive Generation of 4D Objects and ScenesJiajun WuStanford
10:15–10:45Still Training GANs in 2025?Jun‑Yan ZhuCMU
10:45–11:15Language as a Visual FormatPhillip IsolaMIT
11:15–11:45Towards End-to-End Generative ModelingKaiming HeMIT
11:45–12:15I don't know what's after Diffusion but here are some ideasRobin RombachBlack Forest Labs
Lunch Break 12:15–14:00
14:00–14:30Breaking the Algorithmic Ceiling in Pre-Training with a Inference-first PerspectiveJiaming SongLuma AI
14:30–15:00Scalable Normalizing Flows for Visual GenerationJiatao GuApple/UPenn
15:00–15:30Diffusion Dialed In: Light and Heavy Adaptations of Diffusion Models for Complex Vision TasksVarun JampaniStability AI
15:30–16:00What's wrong with diffusion?Arash VahdatNVIDIA
16:00–16:30Unlocking Discontinuities in Flow Models: Jumps, Control Flow, Insertions, Deletions, etcRicky T. Q. ChenFAIR
16:30–17:00Beyond Diffusion: A Journey Toward Efficient Generative ModelsLiang‑Chieh ChenAmazon FAR

Invited Speakers

Jiajun Wu

Jiajun Wu

Stanford University
Robin Rombach

Robin Rombach

Black Forest Labs
Jiaming Song

Jiaming Song

Luma AI
Jiatao Gu

Jiatao Gu

Apple / UPenn
Varun Jampani

Varun Jampani

Stability AI
Arash Vahdat

Arash Vahdat

NVIDIA
Liang‑Chieh Chen

Liang‑Chieh Chen

Amazon FAR

Organizers

Yilun Xu
Yilun Xu
Google DeepMind

Tim Dockhorn
Tim Dockhorn
Black Forest Labs

Shuang Li
Shuang Li
Stanford University

Arash Vahdat
Arash Vahdat
NVIDIA