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Dataset Distillation aims to synthesize compact datasets that can approximate the training efficacy of large-scale real datasets, offering an efficient solution to the increasing computational demands of modern deep learning. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Chenru Wang , Yunyi Chen , Zijun Yang , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Chi Zhang

Drifting models train one-step generators by optimizing a kernel-induced mean-shift discrepancy between the data and model distributions, with Laplace kernels used by default in practice. At each point, this discrepancy compares the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Chieh-Hsin Lai , Bac Nguyen , Naoki Murata , Yuhta Takida , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Yuki Mitsufuji , Stefano Ermon , Molei Tao

Recent Diffusion models (DMs) advancements have explored incorporating the second-order diffusion Fisher information (DF), defined as the negative Hessian of log density, into various downstream tasks and theoretical analysis. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Fangyikang Wang , Hubery Yin , Shaobin Zhuang , Huminhao Zhu , Yinan Li , Lei Qian , Chao Zhang , Hanbin Zhao , Hui Qian , Chen Li

We propose Score-of-Mixture Training (SMT), a novel framework for training one-step generative models by minimizing a class of divergences called the $\alpha$-skew Jensen--Shannon divergence. At its core, SMT estimates the score of mixture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Tejas Jayashankar , J. Jon Ryu , Gregory Wornell

Diffusion models excel in content generation by implicitly learning the data manifold, yet they lack a practical method to leverage this manifold - unlike other deep generative models equipped with latent spaces. This paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Shinnosuke Saito , Takashi Matsubara

Sampling from unnormalized densities using diffusion models has emerged as a powerful paradigm. However, while recent approaches that use least-squares `matching' objectives have improved scalability, they often necessitate significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Denis Blessing , Lorenz Richter , Julius Berner , Egor Malitskiy , Gerhard Neumann

Flow matching has emerged as a simulation-free alternative to diffusion-based generative modeling, producing samples by solving an ODE whose time-dependent velocity field is learned along an interpolation between a simple source…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-10 Shivam Kumar , Yixin Wang , Lizhen Lin

Diffusion-based posterior samplers use pretrained diffusion priors to sample from measurement- or reward-conditioned posteriors, and are widely used for inverse problems. Yet their theoretical behavior remains poorly understood: even with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Matias G. Delgadino , Sebastien Motsch , Advait Parulekar , William Porteous , Sanjay Shakkottai

In this work, we address the limitations of denoising diffusion models (DDMs) in image restoration tasks, particularly the shape and color distortions that can compromise image quality. While DDMs have demonstrated a promising performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Xinlong Cheng , Tiantian Cao , Guoan Cheng , Bangxuan Huang , Xinghan Tian , Ye Wang , Xiaoyu He , Weixin Li , Tianfan Xue , Xuan Dong

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for image generation, often times outperforming other generative models. Since their introduction, researchers have extended the powerful noise-to-image denoising pipeline to discriminative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Fahim Ahmed Zaman , Mathews Jacob , Amanda Chang , Kan Liu , Milan Sonka , Xiaodong Wu

The Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) algorithm is a deterministic particle method for sampling. However, a mean-field analysis reveals that the gradient flow corresponding to the SVGD algorithm (i.e., the Stein Variational Gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-10 Ye He , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur , Jianfeng Lu

Riemannian diffusion models draw inspiration from standard Euclidean space diffusion models to learn distributions on general manifolds. Unfortunately, the additional geometric complexity renders the diffusion transition term inexpressible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Aaron Lou , Minkai Xu , Stefano Ermon

Generative AI models, such as score-based diffusion models, have recently advanced the field of computational materials science by enabling the generation of new materials with desired properties. In addition, these models could also be…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Timo Reents , Arianna Cantarella , Marnik Bercx , Pietro Bonfà , Giovanni Pizzi

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generative modeling. However, this study confirms the existence of overfitting in diffusion model training, particularly in data-limited regimes. To address this challenge, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Liang Hou , Yuan Gao , Boyuan Jiang , Xin Tao , Qi Yan , Renjie Liao , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Kun Gai

Generated images of score-based models can suffer from errors in their spatial means, an effect, referred to as a color shift, which grows for larger images. This paper investigates a previously-introduced approach to mitigate color shifts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Katherine Deck , Tobias Bischoff

Diffusion models have emerged as an expressive family of generative models rivaling GANs in sample quality and autoregressive models in likelihood scores. Standard diffusion models typically require hundreds of forward passes through the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Daniel Watson , William Chan , Jonathan Ho , Mohammad Norouzi

Diffusion distillation provides an effective approach for learning lightweight and few-steps diffusion models with efficient generation. However, evaluating their generalization remains challenging: theoretical metrics are often impractical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Huijie Zhang , Zijian Huang , Siyi Chen , Jinfan Zhou , Zekai Zhang , Peng Wang , Qing Qu

Score-based diffusion generative models have recently emerged as a powerful tool for modelling complex data distributions. These models aim at learning the score function, which defines a map from a known probability distribution to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-12 Ehsan Mirafzali , Frank Proske , Utkarsh Gupta , Daniele Venturi , Razvan Marinescu

Diffusion maps are an emerging data-driven technique for non-linear dimensionality reduction, which are especially useful for the analysis of coherent structures and nonlinear embeddings of dynamical systems. However, the computational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-27 N. Benjamin Erichson , Lionel Mathelin , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

We represent the method of dynamic diffusion for the approximate solution of Shroedinger equation with decoherence. Decoherence shows as the divergency of exact solution from the dynamics of diffusion swarm, which arises when the total…

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