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Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful tools for missing data imputation by modeling the joint distribution of observed and unobserved variables. However, existing methods, typically based on stochastic denoising diffusion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Youran Zhou , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Sunil Aryal

Point cloud upsampling (PCU) enriches the representation of raw point clouds, significantly improving the performance in downstream tasks such as classification and reconstruction. Most of the existing point cloud upsampling methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Wentao Qu , Yuantian Shao , Lingwu Meng , Xiaoshui Huang , Liang Xiao

Score-based diffusion models have achieved remarkable empirical success in generating high-quality samples from target data distributions. Among them, the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) is one of the most widely used…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-16 Yuchen Jiao , Yuchen Zhou , Gen Li

Diffusion language models (DLMs) are an attractive alternative to autoregressive models because they promise sublinear-time, parallel generation, yet practical gains remain elusive as high-quality samples still demand hundreds of refinement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hasan Amin , Yuan Gao , Yaser Souri , Subhojit Som , Ming Yin , Rajiv Khanna , Xia Song

The discovery and study of new material systems rely on molecular simulations that often come with significant computational expense. We propose MDDM, a Molecular Dynamics Diffusion Model, which is capable of predicting a valid output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Kevin Ferguson , Yu-hsuan Chen , Levent Burak Kara

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) are a well-established class of diffusion models for unconditional image generation, while SGMSE+ is a well-established conditional diffusion model for speech enhancement. One of the downsides of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Bunlong Lay , Timo Gerkmann

Diffusion models have emerged as a popular family of deep generative models (DGMs). In the literature, it has been claimed that one class of diffusion models -- denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) -- demonstrate superior image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Rucha Deshpande , Muzaffer Özbey , Hua Li , Mark A. Anastasio , Frank J. Brooks

We propose a novel diffusion-based image generation method called the observation-guided diffusion probabilistic model (OGDM), which effectively addresses the tradeoff between quality control and fast sampling. Our approach reestablishes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Junoh Kang , Jinyoung Choi , Sungik Choi , Bohyung Han

Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance on many generative tasks. Despite recent success, most diffusion models are restricted in that they only allow linear transformation of the data distribution. In contrast, broader family of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Grigory Bartosh , Dmitry Vetrov , Christian A. Naesseth

While 2D diffusion models generate realistic, high-detail images, 3D shape generation methods like Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) built on these 2D diffusion models produce cartoon-like, over-smoothed shapes. To help explain this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Artem Lukoianov , Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Kristjan Greenewald , Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini , Timur Bagautdinov , Vincent Sitzmann , Justin Solomon

Timbre transfer techniques aim at converting the sound of a musical piece generated by one instrument into the same one as if it was played by another instrument, while maintaining as much as possible the content in terms of musical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Luca Comanducci , Fabio Antonacci , Augusto Sarti

Denoising language models (DLMs) have been proposed as a powerful alternative to traditional language models (LMs) for automatic speech recognition (ASR), motivated by their ability to use bidirectional context and adapt to a specific ASR…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dorian Koch , Albert Zeyer , Nick Rossenbach , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful generative technique for robotic policy learning, capable of modeling multi-mode action distributions. Leveraging its capability for end-to-end autonomous driving is a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Bencheng Liao , Shaoyu Chen , Haoran Yin , Bo Jiang , Cheng Wang , Sixu Yan , Xinbang Zhang , Xiangyu Li , Ying Zhang , Qian Zhang , Xinggang Wang

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art generative performance but suffer from high computational costs during inference due to the repeated evaluation of a heavy neural network. In this work, we propose Dual-Rate Diffusion, a method to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Grigory Bartosh , David Ruhe , Emiel Hoogeboom , Jonathan Heek , Thomas Mensink , Tim Salimans

Diffusion-based trajectory optimization has emerged as a powerful planning paradigm, but existing methods require either learned score networks trained on large datasets or analytical dynamics models for score computation. We introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shihao Li , Jiachen Li , Jiamin Xu , Dongmei Chen

Discrete diffusion models (DDMs) are a powerful class of generative models for categorical data, but they typically require many function evaluations for a single sample, making inference expensive. Existing acceleration methods either rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yansong Gao , Yu Sun

Discrete diffusion models form a powerful class of generative models across diverse domains, including text and graphs. However, existing approaches face fundamental limitations. Masked diffusion models suffer from irreversible errors due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Marcel Kollovieh , Sirine Ayadi , Stephan Günnemann

Applying pre-trained generative denoising diffusion models (DDMs) for downstream tasks such as image semantic editing usually requires either fine-tuning DDMs or learning auxiliary editing networks in the existing literature. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Ye Zhu , Yu Wu , Zhiwei Deng , Olga Russakovsky , Yan Yan

Diffusion bridges have shown potential in paired image-to-image (I2I) translation tasks. However, existing methods are limited by their unidirectional nature, requiring separate models for forward and reverse translations. This not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Duc Kieu , Kien Do , Toan Nguyen , Dang Nguyen , Thin Nguyen

High-quality audio is essential in a wide range of applications, including online communication, virtual assistants, and the multimedia industry. However, degradation caused by noise, compression, and transmission artifacts remains a major…