Diffusion models are highly expressive image priors for Bayesian inverse problems. However, most diffusion models cannot operate on large-scale, high-dimensional data due to high training and inference costs. In this work, we introduce a Plug-and-play algorithm for 3D stochastic inference with latent diffusion prior (PSI3D) to address massive (1024×1024×128) volumes. Specifically, we formulate a Markov chain Monte Carlo approach to reconstruct each two-dimensional (2D) slice by sampling from a 2D latent diffusion model. To enhance inter-slice consistency, we also incorporate total variation (TV) regularization stochastically along the concatenation axis. We evaluate our performance on optical coherence tomography (OCT) super-resolution. Our method significantly improves reconstruction quality for large-scale scientific imaging compared to traditional and learning-based baselines, while providing robust and credible reconstructions.
@article{arxiv.2512.18367,
title = {PSI3D: Plug-and-Play 3D Stochastic Inference with Slice-wise Latent Diffusion Prior},
author = {Wenhan Guo and Jinglun Yu and Yaning Wang and Jin U. Kang and Yu Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.18367},
year = {2025}
}