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The problem of inpainting involves reconstructing the missing areas of an image. Inpainting has many applications, such as reconstructing old damaged photographs or removing obfuscations from images. In this paper we present the directional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Jan Deriu , Rolf Jagerman , Kai-En Tsay

Deep Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are essential for capturing complex dependencies in graph-structured data. However, scaling GNNs to depth remains challenging, as stacking layers leads to representation collapse and diminishing sensitivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Rémi Bourgerie , Šarūnas Girdzijauskas , Viktoria Fodor

Nearly every recent image synthesis approach, including diffusion, masked-token prediction, and next-token prediction, uses a Transformer network architecture. Despite this common backbone, there has been no direct, compute controlled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Maciej Kilian , Varun Jampani , Luke Zettlemoyer

Diffusion models have become the dominant tool for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet are critically bottlenecked by their inference speed due to the numerous iterative passes of Diffusion Transformers. To reduce the exhaustive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqi Han , Juntong Shi , Puheng Li , Haotian Ye , Qiushan Guo , Stefano Ermon

In this paper, we propose a method, based on graph signal processing, to optimize the choice of $k$ in $k$-nearest neighbor graphs ($k$NNGs). $k$NN is one of the most popular approaches and is widely used in machine learning and signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Asuka Tamaru , Junya Hara , Hiroshi Higashi , Yuichi Tanaka , Antonio Ortega

This work aims to improve the efficiency of text-to-image diffusion models. While diffusion models use computationally expensive UNet-based denoising operations in every generation step, we identify that not all operations are equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Amirhossein Habibian , Amir Ghodrati , Noor Fathima , Guillaume Sautiere , Risheek Garrepalli , Fatih Porikli , Jens Petersen

Networks are ubiquitous in the real world. Link prediction, as one of the key problems for network-structured data, aims to predict whether there exists a link between two nodes. The traditional approaches are based on the explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Wei Wu , Bin Li , Chuan Luo , Wolfgang Nejdl

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in diverse domains. However, training GNNs on large-scale graphs poses significant challenges due to high memory demands and significant communication overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Arefin Niam , M S Q Zulkar Nine

Diffusion models generate high-quality images but require dozens of forward passes. We introduce Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD), a procedure to transform a diffusion model into a one-step image generator with minimal impact on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Tianwei Yin , Michaël Gharbi , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Fredo Durand , William T. Freeman , Taesung Park

Modern diffusion models, particularly those utilizing a Transformer-based UNet for denoising, rely heavily on self-attention operations to manage complex spatial relationships, thus achieving impressive generation performance. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Songhua Liu , Weihao Yu , Zhenxiong Tan , Xinchao Wang

The k Nearest Neighbors (kNN) method has received much attention in the past decades, where some theoretical bounds on its performance were identified and where practical optimizations were proposed for making it work fairly well in high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Aleksander Lodwich , Faisal Shafait , Thomas Breuel

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have delivered remarkable results in various fields. However, the rapid increase in the scale of graph data has introduced significant performance bottlenecks for GNN inference. Both computational complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiabao Wu , Yongchao Liu , Wei Qin , Chuntao Hong

State-of-the-art algorithms for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) such as DiskANN, FAISS-IVF, and HNSW build data dependent indices that offer substantially better accuracy and search efficiency over data-agnostic indices by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Shikhar Jaiswal , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Ankit Garg , Harsha Vardhan Simhadri , Sheshansh Agrawal

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high dimensions is an integral part of several computer vision systems and gains importance in deep learning with explicit memory representations. Since PQT, FAISS, and SONG started to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Fabian Groh , Lukas Ruppert , Patrick Wieschollek , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Big data mining is well known to be an important task for data science, because it can provide useful observations and new knowledge hidden in given large datasets. Proximity-based data analysis is particularly utilized in many real-life…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Daichi Amagata , Yusuke Arai , Sumio Fujita , Takahiro Hara

Nearest neighbor search has found numerous applications in machine learning, data mining and massive data processing systems. The past few years have witnessed the popularity of the graph-based nearest neighbor search paradigm because of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Hongya Wang , Zhizheng Wang , Wei Wang , Yingyuan Xiao , Zeng Zhao , Kaixiang Yang

State of the art image retrieval performance is achieved with CNN features and manifold ranking using a k-NN similarity graph that is pre-computed off-line. The two most successful existing approaches are temporal filtering, where manifold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Ahmet Iscen , Yannis Avrithis , Giorgos Tolias , Teddy Furon , Ondrej Chum

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse applications, yet they remain limited by oversmoothing and poor performance on heterophilic graphs. To address these challenges, we introduce a novel framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Cristina López Amado , Tassilo Schwarz , Yu Tian , Renaud Lambiotte

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a dominant paradigm for graph classification. Specifically, most existing GNNs mainly rely on the message passing strategy between neighbor nodes, where the expressivity is limited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Lin Du , Lu Bai , Jincheng Li , Lixin Cui , Hangyuan Du , Lichi Zhang , Yuting Chen , Zhao Li

Graph diffusion models have recently been proposed to synthesize entire graphs, such as molecule graphs. Although existing methods have shown great performance in generating entire graphs for graph-level learning tasks, no graph diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yancheng Wang , Changyu Liu , Yingzhen Yang