Towards General Modality Translation with Contrastive and Predictive Latent Diffusion Bridge

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20819v2
• Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 09:13:56 GMT
• Title: Towards General Modality Translation with Contrastive and Predictive Latent Diffusion Bridge
• Authors: Nimrod Berman, Omkar Joglekar, Eitan Kosman, Dotan Di Castro, Omri Azencot,
• Abstract summary: Latent Denoising Diffusion Bridge Model (LDDBM) is a general-purpose framework for modality translation.<n>By operating in a shared latent space, our method learns a bridge between arbitrary modalities without requiring aligned dimensions.<n>Our approach supports arbitrary modality pairs and performs strongly on diverse MT tasks, including multi-view to 3D shape generation, image super-resolution, and multi-view scene synthesis.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances in generative modeling have positioned diffusion models as state-of-the-art tools for sampling from complex data distributions. While these models have shown remarkable success across single-modality domains such as images and audio, extending their capabilities to Modality Translation (MT), translating information across different sensory modalities, remains an open challenge. Existing approaches often rely on restrictive assumptions, including shared dimensionality, Gaussian source priors, and modality-specific architectures, which limit their generality and theoretical grounding. In this work, we propose the Latent Denoising Diffusion Bridge Model (LDDBM), a general-purpose framework for modality translation based on a latent-variable extension of Denoising Diffusion Bridge Models. By operating in a shared latent space, our method learns a bridge between arbitrary modalities without requiring aligned dimensions. We introduce a contrastive alignment loss to enforce semantic consistency between paired samples and design a domain-agnostic encoder-decoder architecture tailored for noise prediction in latent space. Additionally, we propose a predictive loss to guide training toward accurate cross-domain translation and explore several training strategies to improve stability. Our approach supports arbitrary modality pairs and performs strongly on diverse MT tasks, including multi-view to 3D shape generation, image super-resolution, and multi-view scene synthesis. Comprehensive experiments and ablations validate the effectiveness of our framework, establishing a new strong baseline in general modality translation. For more information, see our project page: https://sites.google.com/view/lddbm/home.

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