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Can standard continuous-time generative models represent distributions whose support is an extremely sparse, globally constrained discrete set? We study this question using completed Sudoku grids as a controlled testbed, treating them as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Mariia Drozdova

In this work, we look at Score-based generative models (also called diffusion generative models) from a geometric perspective. From a new view point, we prove that both the forward and backward process of adding noise and generating from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Sandesh Ghimire , Jinyang Liu , Armand Comas , Davin Hill , Aria Masoomi , Octavia Camps , Jennifer Dy

Diffusion models provide a principled framework for generative modeling via stochastic differential equations and time-reversed dynamics. Extending spectral diffusion approaches to spherical data, however, raises nontrivial geometric and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Pierpaolo Brutti , Claudio Durastanti , Francesco Mari

Although ensemble generation remains a central challenge in lattice field theory simulations, recent advances in generative modeling may offer a path to accelerated sampling in these contexts. In this work, we implement a framework for…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-24 Gurtej Kanwar , Octavio Vega

Euclidean diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generative modeling across diverse domains, and they have been extended to manifold cases in recent advances. Instead of explicitly utilizing the structure of special manifolds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zichen Liu , Wei Zhang , Tiejun Li

This work introduces the generative fractional diffusion model for protein generation (ProT-GFDM), a novel generative framework that employs fractional stochastic dynamics for protein backbone structure modeling. This approach builds on the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-01 Xiao Liang , Wentao Ma , Eric Paquet , Herna Lydia Viktor , Wojtek Michalowski

This paper introduces a new probabilistic architecture called Sum-Product Graphical Model (SPGM). SPGMs combine traits from Sum-Product Networks (SPNs) and Graphical Models (GMs): Like SPNs, SPGMs always enable tractable inference using a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-23 Mattia Desana , Christoph Schnörr

Diffusion models have become a leading framework in generative modeling, yet their theoretical understanding -- especially for high-dimensional data concentrated on low-dimensional structures -- remains incomplete. This paper investigates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zixuan Zhang , Kaixuan Huang , Tuo Zhao , Mengdi Wang , Minshuo Chen

In this work, we address the challenge of multi-task image generation with limited data for denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM), a class of generative models that produce high-quality images by reversing a noisy diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Delaram Pirhayatifard , Mohammad Taha Toghani , Guha Balakrishnan , César A. Uribe

In this paper, we introduce a new class of score-based generative models (SGMs) designed to handle high-cardinality data distributions by leveraging concepts from mean-field theory. We present mean-field chaos diffusion models (MF-CDMs),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sungwoo Park , Dongjun Kim , Ahmed Alaa

Diffusion models have had a profound impact on many application areas, including those where data are intrinsically infinite-dimensional, such as images or time series. The standard approach is first to discretize and then to apply…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-09 Jakiw Pidstrigach , Youssef Marzouk , Sebastian Reich , Sven Wang

Score-based (denoising diffusion) generative models have recently gained a lot of success in generating realistic and diverse data. These approaches define a forward diffusion process for transforming data to noise and generate data by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Ke Li , Rémi Piché-Taillefer , Tal Kachman , Ioannis Mitliagkas

We show that a Denoising Diffusion Probabalistic Model (DDPM), a class of score-based generative model, can be used to produce realistic mock images that mimic observations of galaxies. Our method is tested with Dark Energy Spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Michael J. Smith , James E. Geach , Ryan A. Jackson , Nikhil Arora , Connor Stone , Stéphane Courteau

Probabilistic diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis, inpainting, and text-to-image tasks. However, they are still in the early stages of generating complex 3D shapes. This work proposes Diffusion-SDF, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Gene Chou , Yuval Bahat , Felix Heide

We introduce Functional Diffusion Processes (FDPs), which generalize score-based diffusion models to infinite-dimensional function spaces. FDPs require a new mathematical framework to describe the forward and backward dynamics, and several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Giulio Franzese , Giulio Corallo , Simone Rossi , Markus Heinonen , Maurizio Filippone , Pietro Michiardi

We introduce a guided stochastic sampling method that augments sampling from diffusion models with physics-based guidance derived from partial differential equation (PDE) residuals and observational constraints, ensuring generated samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Andrew Millard , Fredrik Lindsten , Zheng Zhao

Score-based diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative methods, achieving state-of-the-art performance across diverse domains. Despite their empirical success, the mathematical foundations of those models remain only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Kang Liu , Enrique Zuazua

Physics-inspired Generative Models (GMs), in particular Diffusion Models (DMs) and Poisson Flow Models (PFMs), enhance Bayesian methods and promise great utility in medical imaging. This review examines the transformative role of such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Dennis Hein , Afshin Bozorgpour , Dorit Merhof , Ge Wang

Since their initial introduction, score-based diffusion models (SDMs) have been successfully applied to solve a variety of linear inverse problems in finite-dimensional vector spaces due to their ability to efficiently approximate the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-31 Lorenzo Baldassari , Ali Siahkoohi , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna , Maarten V. de Hoop

Masked generative models (MGMs) have shown impressive generative ability while providing an order of magnitude efficient sampling steps compared to continuous diffusion models. However, MGMs still underperform in image synthesis compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Jiwan Hur , Dong-Jae Lee , Gyojin Han , Jaehyun Choi , Yunho Jeon , Junmo Kim