Kolja Bauer

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Generative modeling · 100%

Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › diffusion-based representation learning
diffusion model features
0.912025
CleanDIFT: Diffusion Features without Noise · CVPR 2025
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model
0.312025
CleanDIFT: Diffusion Features without Noise · CVPR 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

unsupervised fine-tuning · 0.9feature extraction · 0.9diffusion model · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 CleanDIFT: Diffusion Features without Noise
abstract
Internal features from large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have recently been established as powerful semantic descriptors for a wide range of downstream tasks. Works that use these features generally need to add noise to images before passing them through the model to obtain the semantic features, as the models do not offer the most useful features when given images with little to no noise. We show that this noise has a critical impact on the usefulness of these features that cannot be remedied by ensembling with different random noises. We address this issue by introducing a lightweight, unsupervised fine-tuning method that enables diffusion backbones to provide high-quality, noise-free semantic features. We show that these features readily outperform previous diffusion features by a wide margin in a wide variety of extraction setups and downstream tasks, offering better performance than even ensemble-based methods at a fraction of the cost.
Nick Stracke, Stefan Andreas Baumann, Kolja Bauer, Frank Fundel, Björn Ommer
CVPR3