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Diffusion models have demonstrated highly-expressive generative capabilities in vision and NLP. Recent studies in reinforcement learning (RL) have shown that diffusion models are also powerful in modeling complex policies or trajectories in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Haoran He , Chenjia Bai , Kang Xu , Zhuoran Yang , Weinan Zhang , Dong Wang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

We introduce a new general-purpose approach to deep learning on 3D surfaces, based on the insight that a simple diffusion layer is highly effective for spatial communication. The resulting networks are automatically robust to changes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Nicholas Sharp , Souhaib Attaiki , Keenan Crane , Maks Ovsjanikov

Hypergraphs are powerful mathematical structures that can model complex, high-order relationships in various domains, including social networks, bioinformatics, and recommender systems. However, generating realistic and diverse hypergraphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Dorian Gailhard , Enzo Tartaglione , Lirida Naviner , Jhony H. Giraldo

This paper deals with a clustering algorithm for histogram data based on a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) learning. It combines a dimension reduction by SOM and the clustering of the data in a reduced space. Related to the kind of data, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Guénaël Cabanes , Younès Bennani , Rosanna Verde , Antonio Irpino

Hypergraphs are a common model for multiway relationships in data, and hypergraph semi-supervised learning is the problem of assigning labels to all nodes in a hypergraph, given labels on just a few nodes. Diffusions and label spreading are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Francesco Tudisco , Konstantin Prokopchik , Austin R. Benson

Model-based reinforcement learning methods often use learning only for the purpose of estimating an approximate dynamics model, offloading the rest of the decision-making work to classical trajectory optimizers. While conceptually simple,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Michael Janner , Yilun Du , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Sergey Levine

In the Wireless Localization Matching Problem (WLMP) the challenge is to match pieces of equipment with a set of candidate locations based on wireless signal measurements taken by the pieces of equipment. This challenge is complicated by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-15 Amin Ghafourian , Orestis Georgiou , Edmund Barter , Thilo Gross

The self-organizing map is an unsupervised neural network which is widely used for data visualisation and clustering in the field of chemometrics. The classical Kohonen algorithm that computes self-organizing maps is suitable only for…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-14 Sara Rejeb , Catherine Duveau , Tabea Rebafka

One major branch of saliency object detection methods is diffusion-based which construct a graph model on a given image and diffuse seed saliency values to the whole graph by a diffusion matrix. While their performance is sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Peng Jiang , Zhiyi Pan , Nuno Vasconcelos , Baoquan Chen , Jingliang Peng

Dataset distillation enables the training of deep neural networks with comparable performance in significantly reduced time by compressing large datasets into small and representative ones. Although the introduction of generative models has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Mingzhuo Li , Guang Li , Jiafeng Mao , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Compositional diffusion models offer a promising route to long-horizon planning by denoising multiple overlapping sub-trajectories while ensuring that together they constitute a global solution. However, enforcing local behavior over long…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yaniv Hassidof , Adir Morgan , Yilun Du , Kiril Solovey

In this paper, a sparsity-aware adaptive algorithm for distributed learning in diffusion networks is developed. The algorithm follows the set-theoretic estimation rationale. At each time instance and at each node of the network, a closed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Symeon Chouvardas , Konstantinos Slavakis , Yannis Kopsinis , Sergios Theodoridis

We aim to leverage diffusion to address the challenging image matting task. However, the presence of high computational overhead and the inconsistency of noise sampling between the training and inference processes pose significant obstacles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yihan Hu , Yiheng Lin , Wei Wang , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei , Humphrey Shi

We present multiscale graph-based reduction algorithms for upscaling heterogeneous and anisotropic diffusion problems. The proposed coarsening approaches begin by constructing a partitioning of the computational domain into a set of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Maria Vasilyeva , James Brannick , Ben S. Southworth

Learning-based 3D Scanning plays a crucial role in enabling efficient and accurate scanning of target objects. However, recent reinforcement learning-based methods often require large-scale training data and still struggle to generalize to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Itsuki Hirako , Ryo Hakoda , Yubin Liu , Matthew Hwang , Yoshihiro Sato , Takeshi Oishi

An active learning algorithm for the classification of high-dimensional images is proposed in which spatially-regularized nonlinear diffusion geometry is used to characterize cluster cores. The proposed method samples from estimated cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 James M. Murphy

This paper explores the application diffusion maps as graph shift operators in understanding the underlying geometry of graph signals. The study evaluates the improvements in graph learning when using diffusion map generated filters to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Todd Hildebrant

An unsupervised learning algorithm to cluster hyperspectral image (HSI) data is proposed that exploits spatially-regularized random walks. Markov diffusions are defined on the space of HSI spectra with transitions constrained to near…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 James M. Murphy , Mauro Maggioni

We propose a method called integrated diffusion for combining multimodal datasets, or data gathered via several different measurements on the same system, to create a joint data diffusion operator. As real world data suffers from both local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Manik Kuchroo , Abhinav Godavarthi , Alexander Tong , Guy Wolf , Smita Krishnaswamy

Equation-free modeling aims at extracting low-dimensional macroscopic dynamics from complex high-dimensional systems that govern the evolution of microscopic states. This algorithm relies on lifting and restriction operators that map…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Tracy Chin , Jacob Ruth , Clayton Sanford , Rebecca Santorella , Paul Carter , Bjorn Sandstede