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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

Speech enhancement is designed to enhance the intelligibility and quality of speech across diverse noise conditions. Recently, diffusion model has gained lots of attention in speech enhancement area, achieving competitive results. Current…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Chengzhong Wang , Jianjun Gu , Dingding Yao , Junfeng Li , Yonghong Yan

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in generative tasks, including audio super-resolution (SR). In many applications like movie post-production and album mastering, substantial computational budgets are available for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yizhu Jin , Zhen Ye , Zeyue Tian , Haohe Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Yike Guo , Wei Xue

Generative models have attracted considerable attention for speech separation tasks, and among these, diffusion-based methods are being explored. Despite the notable success of diffusion techniques in generation tasks, their adaptation to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Jinwei Dong , Xinsheng Wang , Qirong Mao

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

Extracting individual elements from music mixtures is a valuable tool for music production and practice. While neural networks optimized to mask or transform mixture spectrograms into the individual source(s) have been the leading approach,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Text-conditioned image generation models have recently shown immense qualitative success using denoising diffusion processes. However, unlike discriminative vision-and-language models, it is a non-trivial task to subject these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Benno Krojer , Elinor Poole-Dayan , Vikram Voleti , Christopher Pal , Siva Reddy

Employing a forward diffusion chain to gradually map the data to a noise distribution, diffusion-based generative models learn how to generate the data by inferring a reverse diffusion chain. However, this approach is slow and costly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-08 Huangjie Zheng , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

Recently, score-based generative models have been successfully employed for the task of speech enhancement. A stochastic differential equation is used to model the iterative forward process, where at each step environmental noise and white…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Bunlong Lay , Simon Welker , Julius Richter , Timo Gerkmann

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for generative tasks in deep learning. They decompose generative modeling into two computational primitives: deterministic neural-network evaluation and stochastic sampling. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nihal Sanjay Singh , Mazdak Mohseni-Rajaee , Shaila Niazi , Kerem Y. Camsari

Solving ill-posed inverse problems requires careful formulation of prior beliefs over the signals of interest and an accurate description of their manifestation into noisy measurements. Handcrafted signal priors based on e.g. sparsity are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Tristan S. W. Stevens , Hans van Gorp , Faik C. Meral , Junseob Shin , Jason Yu , Jean-Luc Robert , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

While Diffusion Generative Models have achieved great success on image generation tasks, how to efficiently and effectively incorporate them into speech generation especially translation tasks remains a non-trivial problem. Specifically,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yongxin Zhu , Zhujin Gao , Xinyuan Zhou , Zhongyi Ye , Linli Xu

We explore unsupervised speech enhancement using diffusion models as expressive generative priors for clean speech. Existing approaches guide the reverse diffusion process using noisy speech through an approximate, noise-perturbed…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Mostafa Sadeghi , Jean-Eudes Ayilo , Romain Serizel , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Optoacoustic tomography image reconstruction has been a problem of interest in recent years. By exploiting the exceptional generative power of the recently proposed diffusion models we consider a scheme which is based on a conditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Martin G. Gonzalez , Matias Vera , Leonardo Rey Vega

Diffusion models are powerful generative models that map noise to data using stochastic processes. However, for many applications such as image editing, the model input comes from a distribution that is not random noise. As such, diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Linqi Zhou , Aaron Lou , Samar Khanna , Stefano Ermon

We present DiffusionBERT, a new generative masked language model based on discrete diffusion models. Diffusion models and many pre-trained language models have a shared training objective, i.e., denoising, making it possible to combine the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Zhengfu He , Tianxiang Sun , Kuanning Wang , Xuanjing Huang , Xipeng Qiu

In text generation, models that generate text from scratch one token at a time are currently the dominant paradigm. Despite being performant, these models lack the ability to revise existing text, which limits their usability in many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Machel Reid , Vincent J. Hellendoorn , Graham Neubig

Speech separation, the task of isolating multiple speech sources from a mixed audio signal, remains challenging in noisy environments. In this paper, we propose a generative correction method to enhance the output of a discriminative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Helin Wang , Jesus Villalba , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Jiarui Hai , Thomas Thebaud , Najim Dehak

Diffusion-based generative models have greatly impacted the speech processing field in recent years, exhibiting high speech naturalness and spawning a new research direction. Their application in real-time communication is, however, still…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Simon Welker , Bunlong Lay , Maris Hillemann , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

In this paper we consider the problem of acoustic inversion in the context of the optoacoustic tomography image reconstruction problem. By leveraging the ability of the recently proposed diffusion models for image generative tasks among…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 M. G. González , M. Vera , A. Dreszman , L. J. Rey Vega