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Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) are a class of powerful generative models. The past few years have witnessed the great success of DDPMs in generating high-fidelity samples. A significant limitation of the DDPMs is the slow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yansong Gao , Zhihong Pan , Xin Zhou , Le Kang , Pratik Chaudhari

Classifier-free guided diffusion models have recently been shown to be highly effective at high-resolution image generation, and they have been widely used in large-scale diffusion frameworks including DALLE-2, Stable Diffusion and Imagen.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Chenlin Meng , Robin Rombach , Ruiqi Gao , Diederik P. Kingma , Stefano Ermon , Jonathan Ho , Tim Salimans

Diffusion-based generative models are extremely effective in generating high-quality images, with generated samples often surpassing the quality of those produced by other models under several metrics. One distinguishing feature of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ashwini Pokle , Zhengyang Geng , Zico Kolter

Diffusion models have been achieving state-of-the-art results across various generation tasks. However, a notable drawback is their sequential generation process, requiring long-sequence step-by-step generation. Existing methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Wenju Xu

We introduce Efficient Motion Diffusion Model (EMDM) for fast and high-quality human motion generation. Current state-of-the-art generative diffusion models have produced impressive results but struggle to achieve fast generation without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Wenyang Zhou , Zhiyang Dou , Zeyu Cao , Zhouyingcheng Liao , Jingbo Wang , Wenjia Wang , Yuan Liu , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang , Lingjie Liu

Based on the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM), medical image segmentation can be described as a conditional image generation task, which allows to compute pixel-wise uncertainty maps of the segmentation and allows an implicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Xutao Guo , Yanwu Yang , Chenfei Ye , Shang Lu , Yang Xiang , Ting Ma

Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural, we often aim to optimize downstream reward functions while…

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have emerged as a powerful class of deep generative models, achieving remarkable performance in image synthesis tasks. However, these models face challenges in terms of widespread adoption due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Kidist Amde Mekonnen , Nicola Dall'Asen , Paolo Rota

Although diffusion model has shown great potential for generating higher quality images than GANs, slow sampling speed hinders its wide application in practice. Progressive distillation is thus proposed for fast sampling by progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Wujie Sun , Defang Chen , Can Wang , Deshi Ye , Yan Feng , Chun Chen

Despite the remarkable generation capabilities of Diffusion Models (DMs), conducting training and inference remains computationally expensive. Previous works have been devoted to accelerating diffusion sampling, but achieving data-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yize Li , Yihua Zhang , Sijia Liu , Xue Lin

Diffusion models have become a standard approach for generative modeling in continuous domains, yet their application to discrete data remains challenging. We investigate why Gaussian diffusion models with the DDPM solver struggle to sample…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Alexander Shabalin , Simon Elistratov , Viacheslav Meshchaninov , Ildus Sadrtdinov , Dmitry Vetrov

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently emerged as SoTA tools for generative modeling in various domains. Standard DMs can be viewed as an instantiation of hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs) where the latent variables are inferred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jiatao Gu , Shuangfei Zhai , Yizhe Zhang , Miguel Angel Bautista , Josh Susskind

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) can generate high-quality samples such as image and audio samples. However, DDPMs require hundreds to thousands of iterations to produce final samples. Several prior works have successfully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Luping Liu , Yi Ren , Zhijie Lin , Zhou Zhao

Diffusion models (DMs) have become the dominant paradigm of generative modeling in a variety of domains by learning stochastic processes from noise to data. Recently, diffusion denoising bridge models (DDBMs), a new formulation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Guande He , Kaiwen Zheng , Jianfei Chen , Fan Bao , Jun Zhu

The past few years have witnessed the great success of Diffusion models~(DMs) in generating high-fidelity samples in generative modeling tasks. A major limitation of the DM is its notoriously slow sampling procedure which normally requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Qinsheng Zhang , Yongxin Chen

Diffusion Models~(DMs) have emerged as the dominant approach in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), owing to their remarkable performance in tasks such as text-to-image synthesis. However, practical DMs, such as stable diffusion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xuhui Fan , Zhangkai Wu , Hongyu Wu

Denoising diffusion models have become ubiquitous for generative modeling. The core idea is to transport the data distribution to a Gaussian by using a diffusion. Approximate samples from the data distribution are then obtained by…

Recently, diffusion models have achieved great success in generative tasks. Sampling from diffusion models is equivalent to solving the reverse diffusion stochastic differential equations (SDEs) or the corresponding probability flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Hanzhong Guo , Cheng Lu , Fan Bao , Tianyu Pang , Shuicheng Yan , Chao Du , Chongxuan Li

Much effort has been put into developing samplers with specific properties, such as producing blue noise, low-discrepancy, lattice or Poisson disk samples. These samplers can be slow if they rely on optimization processes, may rely on a…

Adapting a pretrained diffusion model to new objectives at inference time remains an open problem in generative modeling. Existing steering methods suffer from inaccurate value estimation, especially at high noise levels, which biases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Vineet Jain , Kusha Sareen , Mohammad Pedramfar , Siamak Ravanbakhsh