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Sampling from unnormalized densities using diffusion models has emerged as a powerful paradigm. However, while recent approaches that use least-squares `matching' objectives have improved scalability, they often necessitate significant…

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The slow iterative sampling nature remains a major bottleneck for the practical deployment of diffusion and flow-based generative models. While consistency models (CMs) represent a state-of-the-art distillation-based approach for efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Linwei Dong , Ruoyu Guo , Ge Bai , Zehuan Yuan , Yawei Luo , Changqing Zou

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) is a recent but already widely popular method that relies on an image diffusion model to control optimization problems using text prompts. In this paper, we conduct an in-depth analysis of the SDS loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Thiemo Alldieck , Nikos Kolotouros , Cristian Sminchisescu

Cross-entropy method model predictive control (CEM--MPC) is a powerful gradient-free technique for nonlinear optimal control, but its performance is often limited by the reliance on random sampling. This conventional approach can lead to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Markus Walker , Daniel Frisch , Uwe D. Hanebeck

We consider the application of a subspace migration (SM) algorithm to quickly identify small objects in microwave imaging. In various problems, it is easy to measure the diagonal elements of the scattering matrix if the location of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Won-Kwang Park

In this work, we investigate the diffusive optical tomography (DOT) problem in the case that limited boundary measurements are available. Motivated by the direct sampling method (DSM), we develop a deep direct sampling method (DDSM) to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Jiahua Jiang , Yi Li , Ruchi Guo

Dynamic spectrum management (DSM) has been recognized as a key technology to significantly improve the performance of digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband access networks. The basic concept of DSM is to coordinate transmission over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Paschalis Tsiaflakis , Ion Necoara , Johan A. K. Suykens , Marc Moonen

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a vital diagnostic tool, but its inherently long acquisition times reduce clinical efficiency and patient comfort. Recent advancements in deep learning, particularly diffusion models, have improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Yuxuan Zhang , Jinkui Hao , Bo Zhou

In this work we investigate the practicality of stochastic gradient descent and recently introduced variants with variance-reduction techniques in imaging inverse problems. Such algorithms have been shown in the machine learning literature…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Junqi Tang , Karen Egiazarian , Mohammad Golbabaee , Mike Davies

Sampling-based model predictive control (MPC) is effective for nonlinear systems but often produces non-smooth control inputs due to random sampling. To address this issue, we extend the model predictive path integral (MPPI) framework with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Markus Walker , Marcel Reith-Braun , Tai Hoang , Gerhard Neumann , Uwe D. Hanebeck

In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of direct statistical simulation (DSS) for two low-order models of dynamo action. The first model, which is a simple model of solar and stellar dynamo action, is third-order and has cubic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 Kuan Li , J. B. Marston , Steven M. Tobias

In this literature, we carefully investigate the structure of single- and multi-frequency imaging functions, that are usually employed in inverse scattering problems. Based on patterns of the singular vectors of the Multi-Static Response…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-04 Young Deuk Jo , Young Mi Kwon , Joo Young Huh , Won-Kwang Park

We consider a stochastic nonlinear defocusing Schr\"{o}dinger equation with zero-order linear damping, where the stochastic forcing term is given by a combination of a linear multiplicative noise in the Stratonovich form and a nonlinear…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Zdzisław Brzeźniak , Benedetta Ferrario , Margherita Zanella

In the realm of medical imaging, inverse problems aim to infer high-quality images from incomplete, noisy measurements, with the objective of minimizing expenses and risks to patients in clinical settings. The Diffusion Models have recently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-08 Hossein Askari , Fred Roosta , Hongfu Sun

We propose in this work a novel iterative direct sampling method for imaging moving inhomogeneities in parabolic problems using boundary measurements. It can efficiently identify the locations and shapes of moving inhomogeneities when very…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Bangti Jin , Fengru Wang , Jun Zou

Snapshot multi-dimensional imaging offers a promising alternative to traditional low-dimensional imaging techniques by enabling the simultaneous capture of spatial, spectral, polarization, and other information in a single shot for improved…

Monocular depth estimation is a crucial task in computer vision. While existing methods have shown impressive results under standard conditions, they often face challenges in reliably performing in scenarios such as low-light or rainy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Yifan Mao , Jian Liu , Xianming Liu

Direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) is commonly used to mitigate the effect of jamming and to operate under an adversary receiver's thermal noise floor in order to avoid signal detection. Unfortunately, the discrete nature and unique…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-20 Ismail Shakeel

In medical image segmentation tasks, diffusion models have shown significant potential. However, mainstream diffusion models suffer from drawbacks such as multiple sampling times and slow prediction results. Recently, consistency models, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Kejia Zhang , Lan Zhang , Haiwei Pan , Baolong Yu

Sliding mode control (SMC) is a robust and computationally efficient solution for tracking control problems of highly nonlinear systems with a great deal of uncertainty. High frequency oscillations due to chattering phenomena and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Mohammad Reza Amini , Mahdi Shahbakhti , Selina Pan , J. Karl Hedrick