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DDTR: Diffusion Denoising Trace Recovery

Machine Learning 2025-10-28 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

With recent technological advances, process logs, which were traditionally deterministic in nature, are being captured from non-deterministic sources, such as uncertain sensors or machine learning models (that predict activities using cameras). In the presence of stochastically-known logs, logs that contain probabilistic information, the need for stochastic trace recovery increases, to offer reliable means of understanding the processes that govern such systems. We design a novel deep learning approach for stochastic trace recovery, based on Diffusion Denoising Probabilistic Models (DDPM), which makes use of process knowledge (either implicitly by discovering a model or explicitly by injecting process knowledge in the training phase) to recover traces by denoising. We conduct an empirical evaluation demonstrating state-of-the-art performance with up to a 25% improvement over existing methods, along with increased robustness under high noise levels.

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@article{arxiv.2510.22553,
  title  = {DDTR: Diffusion Denoising Trace Recovery},
  author = {Maximilian Matyash and Avigdor Gal and Arik Senderovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.22553},
  year   = {2025}
}
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