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Diffusion models have gained significant attention for high-fidelity image generation. Our work investigates the potential of exploiting diffusion models for adversarial robustness in image classification and object detection. Adversarial…

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One of the bottlenecks in robotic intelligence is the instability of neural network models, which, unlike control models, lack a well-defined convergence domain and stability. This leads to risks when applying intelligence in the physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zihao Liu , Xing Liu , Yizhai Zhang , Zhengxiong Liu , Panfeng Huang

Understanding the behaviors of information propagation is essential for the effective exploitation of social influence in social networks. However, few existing influence models are tractable and efficient for describing the information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-06-11 Biao Xiang , Enhong Chen , Qi Liu , Hui Xiong , Yu Yang , Junyuan Xie

Diffusion models have become increasingly popular for generative modeling due to their ability to generate high-quality samples. This has unlocked exciting new possibilities for solving inverse problems, especially in image restoration and…

Diffusion Models are popular generative modeling methods in various vision tasks, attracting significant attention. They can be considered a unique instance of self-supervised learning methods due to their independence from label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-19 Michael Fuest , Pingchuan Ma , Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Vincent Tao Hu , Bjorn Ommer

Microstructure reconstruction, a major component of inverse computational materials engineering, is currently advancing at an unprecedented rate. While various training-based and training-free approaches are developed, the majority of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-28 Christian Düreth , Paul Seibert , Dennis Rücker , Stephanie Handford , Markus Kästner , Maik Gude

The astonishing growth of generative tools in recent years has empowered many exciting applications in text-to-image generation and text-to-video generation. The underlying principle behind these generative tools is the concept of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Stanley H. Chan

Studying information diffusion in SNS (Social Networks Service) has remarkable significance in both academia and industry. Theoretically, it boosts the development of other subjects such as statistics, sociology, and data mining.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Huacheng Li , Chunhe Xia , Tianbo Wang , Sheng Wen , Chao Chen , Yang Xiang

Known by many names and arising in many settings, the forced linear diffusion model is central to the modeling of power and influence within social networks (while also serving as the mechanistic justification for the widely used…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Carter T. Butts

We study the inductive biases of diffusion models with a conditioning-variable, which have seen widespread application as both text-conditioned generative image models and observation-conditioned continuous control policies. We observe that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Daniel Pfrommer , Zehao Dou , Christopher Scarvelis , Max Simchowitz , Ali Jadbabaie

With the advancement of computational network science, its research scope has significantly expanded beyond static graphs to encompass more complex structures. The introduction of streaming, temporal, multilayer, and hypernetwork approaches…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Michał Czuba , Mateusz Nurek , Damian Serwata , Yu-Xuan Qiu , Mingshan Jia , Katarzyna Musial , Radosław Michalski , Piotr Bródka

The question that how cultural variation emerges has drawn lots of interest in sociological inquiry. Sociologists predominantly study such variation through the lens of social contagion, which mostly attributes cultural variation to the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Heng-Chien Liou , Hsuan-Wei Lee

Diffusion is a fundamental phenomenon that occurs ubiquitously in nature and remains the subject of continuous research interest. Understanding diffusion is a key to understanding leaving systems. In this Chapter, I discuss diffusion of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-15 Svyatoslav Kondrat

We investigate the phenomenon of diffusion in a countably infinite society of individuals interacting with their neighbors in a network. At a given time, each individual is either active or inactive. The diffusion is driven by two…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Michel Grabisch , Agnieszka Rusinowska , Xavier Venel

The diffusion of information and behaviors over social networks is of considerable interest in research fields ranging from sociology to computer science and application domains such as marketing, finance, human health, and national…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-12-31 Richard Colbaugh , Kristin Glass

The ways in which an innovation (e.g., new behaviour, idea, technology, product) diffuses among people can determine its success or failure. In this paper, we address the problem of diffusion of innovations over multiplex social networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Rasoul Ramezanian , Mostafa Salehi , Matteo Magnani , Danilo Montesi

Diffusion models, though originally designed for generative tasks, have demonstrated impressive self-supervised representation learning capabilities. A particularly intriguing phenomenon in these models is the emergence of unimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xiao Li , Zekai Zhang , Xiang Li , Siyi Chen , Zhihui Zhu , Peng Wang , Qing Qu

We introduce a new threshold model of social networks, in which the nodes influenced by their neighbours can adopt one out of several alternatives. We characterize the graphs for which adoption of a product by the whole network is possible…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Krzysztof R. Apt , Evangelos Markakis

In this chapter, we apply the theoretical framework introduced in the previous chapter to study how the modular structure of the social network affects the spreading of complex contagion. In particular, we focus on the notion of optimal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-04 Azadeh Nematzadeh , Nathaniel Rodriguez , Alessandro Flammini , Yong-Yeol Ahn

A comprehensive study on the applications of denoising diffusion models for wireless systems is provided. The article highlights the capabilities of diffusion models in learning complicated signal distributions, modeling wireless channels,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho