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Singing voice synthesis (SVS) systems are built to synthesize high-quality and expressive singing voice, in which the acoustic model generates the acoustic features (e.g., mel-spectrogram) given a music score. Previous singing acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Jinglin Liu , Chengxi Li , Yi Ren , Feiyang Chen , Zhou Zhao

Diffusion models (DM) can gradually learn to remove noise, which have been widely used in artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) in recent years. The property of DM for eliminating noise leads us to wonder whether DM can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Dazhi He , Liang Qian , Yin Xu , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

Recently, there has been a growing interest in text-to-speech (TTS) methods that can be trained with minimal supervision by combining two types of discrete speech representations and using two sequence-to-sequence tasks to decouple TTS.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chunyu Qiang , Hao Li , Hao Ni , He Qu , Ruibo Fu , Tao Wang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Diffusion-based generative models (DBGMs) perturb data to a target noise distribution and reverse this process to generate samples. The choice of noising process, or inference diffusion process, affects both likelihoods and sample quality.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Raghav Singhal , Mark Goldstein , Rajesh Ranganath

This paper introduces a discrete diffusion model (DDM) framework for text-aligned speech tokenization and reconstruction. By replacing the auto-regressive speech decoder with a discrete diffusion counterpart, our model achieves…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Pin-Jui Ku , He Huang , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Subham Sekhar Sahoo , Zhehuai Chen , Ante Jukić

Pretrained diffusion models have demonstrated strong capabilities in zero-shot inverse problem solving by incorporating observation information into the generation process of the diffusion models. However, this presents an inherent dilemma:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xun Su , Hiroyuki Kasai

Inverse problems are prevalent across various disciplines in science and engineering. In the field of computer vision, tasks such as inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution are commonly formulated as inverse problems. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Shayan Mohajer Hamidi , En-Hui Yang

There are many deterministic mathematical operations (e.g. compression, clipping, downsampling) that degrade speech quality considerably. In this paper we introduce a neural network architecture, based on a modification of the DiffWave…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Jianwei Zhang , Suren Jayasuriya , Visar Berisha

Diffusion models have become emerging generative models. Their sampling process involves multiple steps, and in each step the models predict the noise from a noisy sample. When the models make prediction, the output deviates from the ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shifeng Xu , Yanzhu Liu , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

Image deblurring is an ill-posed problem with multiple plausible solutions for a given input image. However, most existing methods produce a deterministic estimate of the clean image and are trained to minimize pixel-level distortion. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jay Whang , Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Chitwan Saharia , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Peyman Milanfar

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in generating high-quality samples. Existing diffusion-based image restoration algorithms exploit pre-trained diffusion models to leverage data priors, yet they still preserve elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Hongjie Wu , Linchao He , Mingqin Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Kunming Luo , Mengting Luo , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Hu Chen , Jiancheng Lv

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) has been pivotal for leveraging pre-trained diffusion models in downstream tasks such as inverse problems, but it faces two major challenges: $(i)$ mode collapse and $(ii)$ latent space inversion, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Nicolas Zilberstein , Morteza Mardani , Santiago Segarra

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

This paper proposes a new unsupervised audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) approach that combines a diffusion-based audio-visual speech generative model with a non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) noise model. First, the diffusion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jean-Eudes Ayilo , Mostafa Sadeghi , Romain Serizel , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems find broad applications in voice assistants, e-learning, and audiobook creation. The pursuit of modern models, like Diffusion Models (DMs), holds promise for achieving high-fidelity, real-time speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiang Li , Fan Bu , Ambuj Mehrish , Yingting Li , Jiale Han , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality data generation. Despite their success in discrete spaces, such as text generation tasks, the acceleration of discrete diffusion models remains under-explored. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Zixiang Chen , Huizhuo Yuan , Yongqian Li , Yiwen Kou , Junkai Zhang , Quanquan Gu

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

This paper addresses the challenge of audio-visual single-microphone speech separation and enhancement in the presence of real-world environmental noise. Our approach is based on generative inverse sampling, where we model clean speech and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Yochai Yemini , Yoav Ellinson , Rami Ben-Ari , Sharon Gannot , Ethan Fetaya

This report studies diffusion posterior sampling (DPS) for single-image super-resolution (SISR) under a known degradation model. We implement a likelihood-guided sampling procedure that combines an unconditional diffusion prior with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Abu Hanif Muhammad Syarubany

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) and their extensions have emerged as competitive generative models yet confront challenges of efficient sampling. We propose a new bilateral denoising diffusion model (BDDM) that parameterizes both the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Max W. Y. Lam , Jun Wang , Dan Su , Dong Yu