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Existing approaches for diffusion on graphs, e.g., for label propagation, are mainly focused on isotropic diffusion, which is induced by the commonly-used graph Laplacian regularizer. Inspired by the success of diffusivity tensors for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Kwang In Kim , James Tompkin , Hanspeter Pfister , Christian Theobalt

We propose a general framework for conditional sampling in PDE-based inverse problems, targeting the recovery of whole solutions from extremely sparse or noisy measurements. This is accomplished by a function-space diffusion model and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiachen Yao , Abbas Mammadov , Julius Berner , Gavin Kerrigan , Jong Chul Ye , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anima Anandkumar

Diffusion models face a fundamental trade-off between generation quality and computational efficiency. Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) offer an efficient solution but suffer from potential information loss and non-end-to-end training. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhennan Chen , Junwei Zhu , Xu Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Hanzhen Zhao , Chengjie Wang , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

With the success of image generation, generative diffusion models are increasingly adopted for discriminative tasks, as pixel generation provides a unified perception interface. However, directly repurposing the generative denoising process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ziqi Pang , Xin Xu , Yu-Xiong Wang

In recent years, diffusion models have gained popularity for their ability to generate higher-quality images in comparison to GAN models. However, like any other large generative models, these models require a huge amount of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Rajesh Shrestha , Bowen Xie

Guiding unconditional diffusion models typically requires either retraining with conditional inputs or per-step gradient computations (e.g., classifier-based guidance), both of which incur substantial computational overhead. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Qingsong Wang , Mikhail Belkin , Yusu Wang

The colorization of grayscale images is a complex and subjective task with significant challenges. Despite recent progress in employing large-scale datasets with deep neural networks, difficulties with controllability and visual quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Nir Zabari , Aharon Azulay , Alexey Gorkor , Tavi Halperin , Ohad Fried

Diffusion- and flow-based models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative modeling approaches, but they require many sampling steps. Consistency models can distill these models into efficient one-step generators; however, unlike flow-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Amirmojtaba Sabour , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

Negative Prompting (NP) is widely utilized in diffusion models, particularly in text-to-image applications, to prevent the generation of undesired features. In this paper, we show that conventional NP is limited by the assumption of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Felix Koulischer , Johannes Deleu , Gabriel Raya , Thomas Demeester , Luca Ambrogioni

Text-to-image diffusion models produce impressive results but are frustrating tools for artists who desire fine-grained control. For example, a common use case is to create images of a specific instance in novel contexts, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shengqu Cai , Eric Chan , Yunzhi Zhang , Leonidas Guibas , Jiajun Wu , Gordon Wetzstein

Diffusion models has emerged as a powerful framework for tasks like image controllable generation and dense prediction. However, existing models often struggle to capture underlying semantics (e.g., edges, textures, shapes) and effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zhong Ji , Weilong Cao , Yan Zhang , Yanwei Pang , Jungong Han , Xuelong Li

The class-conditional image generation based on diffusion models is renowned for generating high-quality and diverse images. However, most prior efforts focus on generating images for general categories, e.g., 1000 classes in ImageNet-1k. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ziying Pan , Kun Wang , Gang Li , Feihong He , Yongxuan Lai

Collecting large training datasets, annotated with high-quality labels, is costly and time-consuming. This paper proposes a novel framework for training deep convolutional neural networks from noisy labeled datasets that can be obtained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Arash Vahdat

Generative models have advanced significantly in realistic image synthesis, with diffusion models excelling in quality and stability. Recent multi-view diffusion models improve 3D-aware street view generation, but they struggle to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Ji Li , Zhiwei Li , Shihao Li , Zhenjiang Yu , Boyang Wang , Haiou Liu

Recent image denoising methods have leveraged generative modeling for real noise synthesis to address the costly acquisition of real-world noisy data. However, these generative models typically require camera metadata and extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Changjin Kim , HyeokJun Lee , YoungJoon Yoo

Diffusion models have recently gained prominence in offline reinforcement learning due to their ability to effectively learn high-performing, generalizable policies from static datasets. Diffusion-based planners facilitate long-horizon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Donghyeon Ki , JunHyeok Oh , Seong-Woong Shim , Byung-Jun Lee

We introduce a new method to efficiently create text-to-image models from a pre-trained CLIP and StyleGAN. It enables text driven sampling with an existing generative model without any external data or fine-tuning. This is achieved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Justin N. M. Pinkney , Chuan Li

Diffusion models promise efficient parallel text generation but rely on bidirectional attention, creating a structural mismatch with pre-trained Autoregressive (AR) models. This incompatibility precludes reusing robust AR priors,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiangyu Ma , Teng Xiao , Zuchao Li , Lefei Zhang

We introduce a simple but effective unsupervised method for generating realistic and diverse images. We train a class-conditional GAN model without using manually annotated class labels. Instead, our model is conditional on labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Steven Liu , Tongzhou Wang , David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu , Antonio Torralba

Guidance is a crucial technique for extracting the best performance out of image-generating diffusion models. Traditionally, a constant guidance weight has been applied throughout the sampling chain of an image. We show that guidance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Tuomas Kynkäänniemi , Miika Aittala , Tero Karras , Samuli Laine , Timo Aila , Jaakko Lehtinen