English
Related papers

Related papers: Resolving orientation-specific diffusion-relaxatio…

200 papers

Inverse problems (IPs) involve reconstructing signals from noisy observations. Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as a powerful framework for solving IPs, achieving remarkable reconstruction performance. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yang Zheng , Wen Li , Zhaoqiang Liu

We study inference-time alignment for diffusion-based generative models, aiming to steer a base model toward high-reward outputs without updating its weights. Recent Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC)-based steering methods approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weixin Wang , Yu Yang , Wei Deng , Pan Xu

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) is being recognized as a higher-accuracy, albeit more computationally expensive, alternative to Density Functional Theory (DFT) for energy predictions of catalytic systems. A major computational bottleneck in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-12 Gopal R. Iyer , Brenda M. Rubenstein

Energy carrier transport and recombination in emerging semiconductors can be directly monitored with optical microscopy, leading to the measurement of the diffusion coefficient (D), a critical property for design of efficient optoelectronic…

White matter fiber clustering (WMFC) enables parcellation of white matter tractography for applications such as disease classification and anatomical tract segmentation. However, the lack of ground truth and the ambiguity of fiber data (the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yuqian Chen , Chaoyi Zhang , Yang Song , Nikos Makris , Yogesh Rathi , Weidong Cai , Fan Zhang , Lauren J. O'Donnell

A common type of cytoskeletal morphology involves multiple converging microbutubules with their minus ends collected and stabilized by a microtubule organizing center (MTOC) in the interior of the cell. This arrangement enables the…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-04 Niranjan Sarpangala , Brooke Randell , Ajay Gopinathan , Oleg Kogan

Conventional approaches for simulating steady-state distributions of particles under diffusive and advective transport at high P\'eclet numbers involve solving the diffusion and advection equations in at least two dimensions. Here, we…

A recent line of research has exploited pre-trained generative diffusion models as priors for solving Bayesian inverse problems. We contribute to this research direction by designing a sequential Monte Carlo method for linear-Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Filip Ekström Kelvinius , Zheng Zhao , Fredrik Lindsten

Voxelization is an effective approach to reduce the computational cost of processing Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data, yet it results in a loss of fine-scale structural information. This study explores whether low-level voxel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Amirhossein Hassanzadeh , Bartosz Krawczyk , Michael Saunders , Rob Wible , Keith Krause , Dimah Dera , Jan van Aardt

We present two machine learning methodologies that are capable of predicting diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) energies with small datasets (~60 DMC calculations in total). The first uses voxel deep neural networks (VDNNs) to predict DMC energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Kevin Ryczko , Jaron T. Krogel , Isaac Tamblyn

Piecewise deterministic Markov process samplers are attractive alternatives to Metropolis--Hastings algorithms. A central design question is how to incorporate partial velocity refreshment to ensure ergodicity without injecting excessive…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Hirofumi Shiba , Kengo Kamatani

Biophysical modeling is the mediator of evaluating the cellular structure of biological tissues using diffusion-weighted MRI. It is however the bottleneck of microstructural MRI. Beyond the complexity of diffusion, the current development…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 Bibek Dhital , Marco Reisert , Elias Kellner , Valerij G. Kiselev

In this work, we explore the various Brain Neuron tracking techniques, which is one of the most significant applications of Diffusion Tensor Imaging. Tractography provides us with a non-invasive method to analyze underlying tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Nandakishore Puttashamachar , Ulas Bagci

This work presents a machine learning approach to predict peak-stress clusters in heterogeneous polycrystalline materials. Prior work on using machine learning in the context of mechanics has largely focused on predicting the effective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Ankit Shrivastava , Jingxiao Liu , Kaushik Dayal , Hae Young Noh

Diffusion models have become a successful approach for solving various image inverse problems by providing a powerful diffusion prior. Many studies tried to combine the measurement into diffusion by score function replacement, matrix…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Hanyu Chen , Zhixiu Hao , Liying Xiao

Global fits of physics models require efficient methods for exploring high-dimensional and/or multimodal posterior functions. We introduce a novel method for accelerating Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling by pairing a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-06 N. T. Hunt-Smith , W. Melnitchouk , F. Ringer , N. Sato , A. W Thomas , M. J. White

Understanding how proteins structurally interact is crucial to modern biology, with applications in drug discovery and protein design. Recent machine learning methods have formulated protein-small molecule docking as a generative problem…

We propose Diffusion Model Predictive Control (D-MPC), a novel MPC approach that learns a multi-step action proposal and a multi-step dynamics model, both using diffusion models, and combines them for use in online MPC. On the popular D4RL…

We study a multi-factor block model for variable clustering and connect it to regularized subspace clustering through a distributionally robust version of nodewise regression. To solve the latter problem, we derive a convex relaxation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kaizheng Wang , Xiao Xu , Xun Yu Zhou

We present an algorithm for the identification of the relaxation kernel in the theory of diffusion systems with memory (or of viscoelasticity) which is linear, in the sense that we propose a linear Volterra integral equation of convolution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 L. Pandolfi