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Diffusion models have gained prominence as state-of-the-art techniques for synthesizing images and videos, particularly due to their ability to scale effectively with large datasets. Recent studies have uncovered that these extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Dat Nguyen Cong , Hieu Tran Bao , Hoang Thanh-Tung

Despite the recent advancements, conditional image generation still faces challenges of cost, generalizability, and the need for task-specific training. In this paper, we propose Manifold Preserving Guided Diffusion (MPGD), a training-free…

Determining conditional independence (CI) relationships between random variables is a fundamental yet challenging task in machine learning and statistics, especially in high-dimensional settings. Existing generative model-based CI testing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yixin Ren , Chenghou Jin , Yewei Xia , Li Ke , Longtao Huang , Hui Xue , Hao Zhang , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Discrete-time diffusion-based generative models and score matching methods have shown promising results in modeling high-dimensional image data. Recently, Song et al. (2021) show that diffusion processes that transform data into noise can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Chin-Wei Huang , Jae Hyun Lim , Aaron Courville

Adapting a pretrained diffusion model to new objectives at inference time remains an open problem in generative modeling. Existing steering methods suffer from inaccurate value estimation, especially at high noise levels, which biases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Vineet Jain , Kusha Sareen , Mohammad Pedramfar , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Diffusion models have quickly risen in popularity for their ability to model complex distributions and perform effective posterior sampling. Unfortunately, the iterative nature of these generative models makes them computationally expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Tristan S. W. Stevens , Oisín Nolan , Jean-Luc Robert , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Discrete diffusion models have recently emerged as strong alternatives to autoregressive language models, matching their performance through large-scale training. However, inference-time control remains relatively underexplored. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Meihua Dang , Jiaqi Han , Minkai Xu , Kai Xu , Akash Srivastava , Stefano Ermon

Recent research has focused on designing neural samplers that amortize the process of sampling from unnormalized densities. However, despite significant advancements, they still fall short of the state-of-the-art MCMC approach, Parallel…

Image synthesis approaches, e.g., generative adversarial networks, have been popular as a form of data augmentation in medical image analysis tasks. It is primarily beneficial to overcome the shortage of publicly accessible data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Shiyi Du , Xiaosong Wang , Yongyi Lu , Yuyin Zhou , Shaoting Zhang , Alan Yuille , Kang Li , Zongwei Zhou

With the rapid development of deep learning, existing generative text steganography methods based on autoregressive models have achieved success. However, these autoregressive steganography approaches have certain limitations. Firstly,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhengxian Wu , Juan Wen , Yiming Xue , Ziwei Zhang , Yinghan Zhou

Diffusion models have gained attention for their success in modeling complex distributions, achieving impressive perceptual quality in SR tasks. However, existing diffusion-based SR methods often suffer from high computational costs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Rui Qin , Qijie Wang , Ming Sun , Haowei Zhu , Chao Zhou , Bin Wang

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) has emerged as a prominent method for text-to-3D generation by leveraging the strengths of 2D diffusion models. However, SDS is limited to generation tasks and lacks the capability to edit existing 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xingyu Miao , Haoran Duan , Yang Long , Jungong Han

Diffusion models represent a powerful family of generative models widely used for image and video generation. However, the time-consuming deployment, long inference time, and requirements on large memory hinder their applications on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Kafeng Wang , Jianfei Chen , He Li , Zhenpeng Mi , Jun Zhu

Diffusion Language models (DLMs) are a promising avenue for text generation due to their practical properties on tractable controllable generation. They also have the advantage of not having to predict text autoregressively. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Sofia Maria Lo Cicero Vaina , Nikita Balagansky , Daniil Gavrilov

Diffusion models have significantly advanced the state of the art in image, audio, and video generation tasks. However, their applications in practical scenarios are hindered by slow inference speed. Drawing inspiration from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Chen Xu , Tianhui Song , Weixin Feng , Xubin Li , Tiezheng Ge , Bo Zheng , Limin Wang

In light of the widespread success of generative models, a significant amount of research has gone into speeding up their sampling time. However, generative models are often sampled multiple times to obtain a diverse set incurring a cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Gabriele Corso , Yilun Xu , Valentin de Bortoli , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Diffusion Models have demonstrated remarkable performance in image generation. However, their demanding computational requirements for training have prompted ongoing efforts to enhance the quality of generated images through modifications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Eleftherios Tsonis , Paraskevi Tzouveli , Athanasios Voulodimos

Conditional diffusion probabilistic models can model the distribution of natural images and can generate diverse and realistic samples based on given conditions. However, oftentimes their results can be unrealistic with observable color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Kangfu Mei , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Vishal M. Patel

We propose Generative Probabilistic Image Colorization, a diffusion-based generative process that trains a sequence of probabilistic models to reverse each step of noise corruption. Given a line-drawing image as input, our method suggests…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Chie Furusawa , Shinya Kitaoka , Michael Li , Yuri Odagiri

Score-based generative models (SBM), also known as diffusion models, are the de facto state of the art for image synthesis. Despite their unparalleled performance, SBMs have recently been in the spotlight for being tricked into creating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Camilo Carvajal Reyes , Joaquín Fontbona , Felipe Tobar