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Discrete diffusion models are increasingly competitive for language modeling, yet it remains unclear how their denoising objectives organize learning. Although these objectives target the full data distribution, we show that the exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Adrian Müller , Antoine Gonon , Zebang Shen , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Niao He

Unsupervised learning of feature representations is a challenging yet important problem for analyzing a large collection of multimedia data that do not have semantic labels. Recently proposed neural network-based unsupervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Takahiko Furuya , Ryutarou Ohbuchi

Diffusion or score-based models recently showed high performance in image generation. They rely on a forward and a backward stochastic differential equations (SDE). The sampling of a data distribution is achieved by numerically solving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Emile Pierret , Bruno Galerne

Adaptive networks consist of a collection of nodes with adaptation and learning abilities. The nodes interact with each other on a local level and diffuse information across the network to solve estimation and inference tasks in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Sheng-Yuan Tu , Ali H. Sayed

Diffusion models are often trained in low-dimensional latent spaces, which are then reused for related but shifted datasets. In this work, we study when such latent reuse remains reliable under distribution shift. We consider a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Yifeng Yu , Lu Yu

This paper addresses the challenging problem of category-level pose estimation. Current state-of-the-art methods for this task face challenges when dealing with symmetric objects and when attempting to generalize to new environments solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Takuya Ikeda , Sergey Zakharov , Tianyi Ko , Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Robert Lee , Katherine Liu , Rares Ambrus , Koichi Nishiwaki

Recent score-based diffusion models (SBDMs) show promising results in unpaired image-to-image translation (I2I). However, existing methods, either energy-based or statistically-based, provide no explicit form of the interfered intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Shikun Sun , Longhui Wei , Junliang Xing , Jia Jia , Qi Tian

Score matching is a vital tool for learning the distribution of data with applications across many areas including diffusion processes, energy based modelling, and graphical model estimation. Despite all these applications, little work…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Josh Givens , Song Liu , Henry W J Reeve

Compressive sensing(CS) has drawn much attention in recent years due to its low sampling rate as well as high recovery accuracy. As an important procedure, reconstructing a sparse signal from few measurement data has been intensively…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Yicong He , Fei Wang , Shiyuan Wang , Badong Chen

Score-based diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools in generative modeling, yet their theoretical foundations remain underexplored. In this work, we focus on the Wasserstein convergence analysis of score-based diffusion models.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-10 Yifeng Yu , Lu Yu

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art performance, demonstrating remarkable generalisation capabilities across diverse domains. However, the mechanisms underpinning these strong capabilities remain only partially understood. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Tyler Farghly , Peter Potaptchik , Samuel Howard , George Deligiannidis , Jakiw Pidstrigach

Diffusion models excel at capturing complex data distributions, such as those of natural images and proteins. While diffusion models are trained to represent the distribution in the training dataset, we often are more concerned with other…

We introduce novel diffusion based adaptive estimation strategies for distributed networks that have significantly less communication load and achieve comparable performance to the full information exchange configurations. After local…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-02-06 Muhammed O. Sayin , Suleyman S. Kozat

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful learners for simulation-based inference (SBI), enabling fast and accurate estimation of latent parameters from simulated and real data. Their score-based formulation offers a flexible way…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-30 Jonas Arruda , Niels Bracher , Ullrich Köthe , Jan Hasenauer , Stefan T. Radev

Distributed estimation and processing in networks modeled by graphs have received a great deal of interest recently, due to the benefits of decentralised processing in terms of performance and robustness to communications link failure…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-29 C. T. Healy , R. C. de Lamare

This paper provides statistical sample complexity bounds for score-matching and its applications in causal discovery. We demonstrate that accurate estimation of the score function is achievable by training a standard deep ReLU neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Zhenyu Zhu , Francesco Locatello , Volkan Cevher

Recent advances in diffusion models have demonstrated their remarkable ability to capture complex image distributions, but the geometric properties of the learned data manifold remain poorly understood. We address this gap by introducing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Simone Azeglio , Arianna Di Bernardo

We consider the robustness of score-based generative modeling to errors in the estimate of the score function. In particular, we show that Langevin dynamics is not robust to the L^2 errors (more generally L^p errors) in the estimate of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Daniel Yiming Cao , August Y. Chen , Karthik Sridharan , Yuchen Wu

Diffusion models perform remarkably well on high-dimensional data such as images, often using only a modest number of reverse-time steps. Despite this practical success, existing convergence theory does not fully explain why such samplers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ahmad Aghapour , Erhan Bayraktar

Diffusion models excel at modeling complex data distributions, including those of images, proteins, and small molecules. However, in many cases, our goal is to model parts of the distribution that maximize certain properties: for example,…