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We provide a general framework for learning diffusion bridges that transport prior to target distributions. It includes existing diffusion models for generative modeling, but also underdamped versions with degenerate diffusion matrices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Denis Blessing , Julius Berner , Lorenz Richter , Gerhard Neumann

Despite their popularity, to date, the application of normalizing flows on categorical data stays limited. The current practice of using dequantization to map discrete data to a continuous space is inapplicable as categorical data has no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Phillip Lippe , Efstratios Gavves

Disentangled representation learning aims to capture the underlying explanatory factors of observed data, enabling a principled understanding of the data-generating process. Recent advances in generative modeling have introduced new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jinjin Chi , Taoping Liu , Mengtao Yin , Ximing Li , Yongcheng Jing , Jialie Shen , Leszek Rutkowski , Dacheng Tao

Density estimation, a central problem in machine learning, can be performed using Normalizing Flows (NFs). NFs comprise a sequence of invertible transformations, that turn a complex target distribution into a simple one, by exploiting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Massimiliano Patacchiola , Aliaksandra Shysheya , Katja Hofmann , Richard E. Turner

Machine Learning (ML) models in Robotic Assembly Sequence Planning (RASP) need to be introspective on the predicted solutions, i.e. whether they are feasible or not, to circumvent potential efficiency degradation. Previous works need both…

Generative diffusion models can provide powerful prior probability models for inverse problems in imaging, but existing implementations suffer from two key limitations: $(i)$ the prior density is represented implicitly, and $(ii)$ they rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nicolas Zilberstein , Santiago Segarra , Eero Simoncelli , Florentin Guth

Image denoising is a classic restoration problem. Yet, current deep learning methods are subject to the problems of generalization and interpretability. To mitigate these problems, in this project, we present a framework that is capable of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Haley Owsianko , Florian Cassayre , Qiyuan Liang

Generative models have gained popularity for their potential applications in imaging science, such as image reconstruction, posterior sampling and data sharing. Flow-based generative models are particularly attractive due to their ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Varun A. Kelkar , Rucha Deshpande , Arindam Banerjee , Mark A. Anastasio

Flow-based generative models (Dinh et al., 2014) are conceptually attractive due to tractability of the exact log-likelihood, tractability of exact latent-variable inference, and parallelizability of both training and synthesis. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-11 Diederik P. Kingma , Prafulla Dhariwal

Denoising diffusion models are a novel class of generative algorithms that achieve state-of-the-art performance across a range of domains, including image generation and text-to-image tasks. Building on this success, diffusion models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Nic Fishman , Leo Klarner , Valentin De Bortoli , Emile Mathieu , Michael Hutchinson

Underwater images suffer from light refraction and absorption, which impairs visibility and interferes the subsequent applications. Existing underwater image enhancement methods mainly focus on image quality improvement, ignoring the effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zengxi Zhang , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Invertible convolutions have been an essential element for building expressive normalizing flow-based generative models since their introduction in Glow. Several attempts have been made to design invertible $k \times k$ convolutions that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Aditya Kallappa , Sandeep Nagar , Girish Varma

We propose an algorithm for taming Normalizing Flow models - changing the probability that the model will produce a specific image or image category. We focus on Normalizing Flows because they can calculate the exact generation probability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Shimon Malnick , Shai Avidan , Ohad Fried

Use denoising diffusion implicit model for bridge-type innovation. The process of adding noise and denoising to an image can be likened to the process of a corpse rotting and a detective restoring the scene of a victim being killed, to help…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Hongjun Zhang

The particle-in-cell numerical method of plasma physics balances a trade-off between computational cost and intrinsic noise. Inference on data produced by these simulations generally consists of binning the data to recover the particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 John Donaghy , Kai Germaschewski

In this paper we propose Discretely Indexed flows (DIF) as a new tool for solving variational estimation problems. Roughly speaking, DIF are built as an extension of Normalizing Flows (NF), in which the deterministic transport becomes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-05 Elouan Argouarc'h , François Desbouvries , Eric Barat , Eiji Kawasaki , Thomas Dautremer

Flow-based generative models have recently become one of the most efficient approaches to model data generation. Indeed, they are constructed with a sequence of invertible and tractable transformations. Glow first introduced a simple type…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Thanh-Dat Truong , Khoa Luu , Chi Nhan Duong , Ngan Le , Minh-Triet Tran

The normalization constraint on probability density poses a significant challenge for solving the Fokker-Planck equation. Normalizing Flow, an invertible generative model leverages the change of variables formula to ensure probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Feng Liu , Faguo Wu , Xiao Zhang

Recently developed generative methods, including invertible rescaling network (IRN) based and generative adversarial network (GAN) based methods, have demonstrated exceptional performance in image rescaling. However, IRN-based methods tend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Jinmin Li , Tao Dai , Jingyun Zhang , Kang Liu , Jun Wang , Shaoming Wang , Shu-Tao Xia , Rizen Guo

Foundation models have demonstrated remarkable performance across modalities such as language and vision. However, model reuse across distinct modalities (e.g., text and vision) remains limited due to the difficulty of aligning internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ali Gholamzadeh , Noor Sajid