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Diffusion models have become a powerful family of deep generative models, with record-breaking performance in many applications. This paper first gives an overview and derivation of the basic theory of diffusion models, then reviews the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Yuansong Zhu , Yu Zhao

Offline reinforcement learning (RL), which aims to learn an optimal policy using a previously collected static dataset, is an important paradigm of RL. Standard RL methods often perform poorly in this regime due to the function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zhendong Wang , Jonathan J Hunt , Mingyuan Zhou

Generative diffusion models for end-to-end autonomous driving often suffer from mode collapse, tending to generate conservative and homogeneous behaviors. While DiffusionDrive employs predefined anchors representing different driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jialv Zou , Shaoyu Chen , Bencheng Liao , Zhiyu Zheng , Yuehao Song , Lefei Zhang , Qian Zhang , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Incorporating diffusion-generated synthetic data into adversarial training (AT) has been shown to substantially improve the training of robust image classifiers. In this work, we extend the role of diffusion models beyond merely generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Pin-Han Huang , Shang-Tse Chen , Hsuan-Tien Lin

We introduce Diffusion Active Learning, a novel approach that combines generative diffusion modeling with data-driven sequential experimental design to adaptively acquire data for inverse problems. Although broadly applicable, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Luis Barba , Johannes Kirschner , Tomas Aidukas , Manuel Guizar-Sicairos , Benjamín Béjar

Legged locomotion demands controllers that are both robust and adaptable, while remaining compatible with task and safety considerations. However, model-free reinforcement learning (RL) methods often yield a fixed policy that can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Runhan Huang , Haldun Balim , Heng Yang , Yilun Du

Although diffusion models have achieved strong results in decision-making tasks, their slow inference speed remains a key limitation. While consistency models offer a potential solution, existing applications to decision-making either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xintong Duan , Yutong He , Fahim Tajwar , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , J. Zico Kolter , Jeff Schneider

Classifier free guidance has shown strong potential in diffusion-based reinforcement learning. However, existing methods rely on joint training of the guidance module and the diffusion model, which can be suboptimal during the early stages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhaoyang Chen , Cody Fleming

Machine learning has demonstrated remarkable promise for solving the trajectory generation problem and in paving the way for online use of trajectory optimization for resource-constrained spacecraft. However, a key shortcoming in current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Julia Briden , Breanna Johnson , Richard Linares , Abhishek Cauligi

We report a series of deep learning models to solve complex forward and inverse design problems in molecular modeling and design. Using both diffusion models inspired by nonequilibrium thermodynamics and attention-based transformer…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-21 Rachel K. Luu , Marcin Wysokowski , Markus J. Buehler

Diffusion models are a class of generative models that learn to synthesize samples by inverting a diffusion process that gradually maps data into noise. While these models have enjoyed great success recently, a full theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Raja Marjieh , Ilia Sucholutsky , Thomas A. Langlois , Nori Jacoby , Thomas L. Griffiths

In medical imaging, the diffusion models have shown great potential for synthetic image generation tasks. However, these approaches often lack the interpretable connections between the generated and real images and can create anatomically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Jian-Qing Zheng , Yuanhan Mo , Yang Sun , Jiahua Li , Fuping Wu , Ziyang Wang , Tonia Vincent , Bartłomiej W. Papież

Redundant manipulators, with their higher Degrees of Freedom (DoFs), offer enhanced kinematic performance and versatility, making them suitable for applications like manufacturing, surgical robotics, and human-robot collaboration. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xudong Mou , Xiaohan Zhang , Tiejun Wang , Tianyu Wo , Cangbai Xu , Ningbo Gu , Rui Wang , Xudong Liu

This work introduces the Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (MDT), a novel diffusion policy framework, that excels at learning versatile behavior from multimodal goal specifications with few language annotations. MDT leverages a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Moritz Reuss , Ömer Erdinç Yağmurlu , Fabian Wenzel , Rudolf Lioutikov

Datasets of labeled network traces are essential for a multitude of machine learning (ML) tasks in networking, yet their availability is hindered by privacy and maintenance concerns, such as data staleness. To overcome this limitation,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Xi Jiang , Shinan Liu , Aaron Gember-Jacobson , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Paul Schmitt , Francesco Bronzino , Nick Feamster

Due to network operation and maintenance relying heavily on network traffic monitoring, traffic matrix analysis has been one of the most crucial issues for network management related tasks. However, it is challenging to reliably obtain the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xinyu Yuan , Yan Qiao , Zhenchun Wei , Zeyu Zhang , Minyue Li , Pei Zhao , Rongyao Hu , Wenjing Li

Diffusion models have been applied to improve adversarial robustness of image classifiers by purifying the adversarial noises or generating realistic data for adversarial training. However, diffusion-based purification can be evaded by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Huanran Chen , Yinpeng Dong , Zhengyi Wang , Xiao Yang , Chengqi Duan , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Over the past decade, there has been tremendous progress in the domain of synthetic media generation. This is mainly due to the powerful methods based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). Very recently, diffusion probabilistic models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Dwij Mehta , Aditya Mehta , Pratik Narang

Recently Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) has garnered attention and can transfer knowledge from a teacher neural network to a student neural network without requiring any access to training data. Although diffusion models are adept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xiaohua Qi , Renda Li , Long Peng , Qiang Ling , Jun Yu , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei Han , Jing Xiao

Diffusion models are powerful generative models that achieve state-of-the-art performance in image synthesis. However, training them demands substantial amounts of data and computational resources. Continual learning would allow for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Sergi Masip , Pau Rodriguez , Tinne Tuytelaars , Gido M. van de Ven