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Classifier-guided diffusion models have emerged as a powerful approach for conditional image generation, but they suffer from overconfident predictions during early denoising steps, causing the guidance gradient to vanish. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Seyed Alireza Javid , Amirhossein Bagheri , Nuria González-Prelcic

The proposed method, Discriminator Guidance, aims to improve sample generation of pre-trained diffusion models. The approach introduces a discriminator that gives explicit supervision to a denoising sample path whether it is realistic or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dongjun Kim , Yeongmin Kim , Se Jung Kwon , Wanmo Kang , Il-Chul Moon

In recent years we have witnessed a growth in mathematics for deep learning, which has been used to solve inverse problems of partial differential equations (PDEs). However, most deep learning-based inversion methods either require paired…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Enze Jiang , Jishen Peng , Zheng Ma , Xiong-Bin Yan

The Stable Diffusion Model (SDM) is a prevalent and effective model for text-to-image (T2I) and image-to-image (I2I) generation. Despite various attempts at sampler optimization, model distillation, and network quantification, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jinchao Zhu , Yuxuan Wang , Siyuan Pan , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Gao Huang

Text-to-image diffusion models often degrade when sampled at resolutions outside the final training resolution set. Prior work has largely emphasized higher resolution generation, enabling pretrained diffusion models to extrapolate beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ruozhen He , Moayed Haji-Ali , Ziyan Yang , Vicente Ordonez

Score-based generative models have demonstrated significant practical success in data-generating tasks. The models establish a diffusion process that perturbs the ground truth data to Gaussian noise and then learn the reverse process to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ziqing Wen , Xiaoge Deng , Ping Luo , Tao Sun , Dongsheng Li

Learning generative models directly from corrupted observations is a long standing challenge across natural and scientific domains. We introduce Restoration Score Distillation (RSD), a unified framework for learning high fidelity, one step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yasi Zhang , Tianyu Chen , Zhendong Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Mingyuan Zhou , Oscar Leong

There has been a flurry of activity around using pretrained diffusion models as informed data priors for solving inverse problems, and more generally around steering these models using reward models. Training-free methods like diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Aayush Karan , Kulin Shah , Sitan Chen

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) are emerging powerful generative models. Despite their high-quality generation performance, DPMs still suffer from their slow sampling as they generally need hundreds or thousands of sequential function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Cheng Lu , Yuhao Zhou , Fan Bao , Jianfei Chen , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

Recent success of diffusion models has inspired a surge of interest in developing sampling techniques using reverse diffusion processes. However, accurately estimating the drift term in the reverse stochastic differential equation (SDE)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-22 Zhekun Shi , Longlin Yu , Tianyu Xie , Cheng Zhang

Diffusion models for super-resolution (SR) produce high-quality visual results but require expensive computational costs. Despite the development of several methods to accelerate diffusion-based SR models, some (e.g., SinSR) fail to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Daniil Selikhanovych , David Li , Aleksei Leonov , Nikita Gushchin , Sergei Kushneriuk , Alexander Filippov , Evgeny Burnaev , Iaroslav Koshelev , Alexander Korotin

The reconstruction of unsteady flow fields from limited measurements is a challenging and crucial task for many engineering applications. Machine learning models are gaining popularity for solving this problem due to their ability to learn…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Marc Amorós-Trepat , Luis Medrano-Navarro , Qiang Liu , Luca Guastoni , Nils Thuerey

Inverse problems arise in a multitude of applications, where the goal is to recover a clean signal from noisy and possibly (non)linear observations. The difficulty of a reconstruction problem depends on multiple factors, such as the ground…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Zalan Fabian , Berk Tinaz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

A dramatic influx of diffusion-generated images has marked recent years, posing unique challenges to current detection technologies. While the task of identifying these images falls under binary classification, a seemingly straightforward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yewon Lim , Changyeon Lee , Aerin Kim , Oren Etzioni

We present parallel algorithms to accelerate sampling via counting in two settings: any-order autoregressive models and denoising diffusion models. An any-order autoregressive model accesses a target distribution $\mu$ on $[q]^n$ through an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Nima Anari , Carlo Baronio , CJ Chen , Alireza Haqi , Frederic Koehler , Anqi Li , Thuy-Duong Vuong

In this work, we build upon our previous publication and use diffusion-based generative models for speech enhancement. We present a detailed overview of the diffusion process that is based on a stochastic differential equation and delve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Bunlong Lay , Timo Gerkmann

Generative diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for high-quality image synthesis, yet their iterative nature demands significant computational resources. This paper proposes an efficient time step sampling method based on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haeil Lee , Hansang Lee , Seoyeon Gye , Junmo Kim

In this paper, we present an approach to image enhancement with diffusion model in underwater scenes. Our method adapts conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic models to generate the corresponding enhanced images by using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Yi Tang , Takafumi Iwaguchi , Hiroshi Kawasaki

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable success in modeling large-scale data distributions. However, many downstream tasks require guiding the generated content based on specific differentiable metrics, typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Hongkun Dou , Zeyu Li , Xingyu Jiang , Hongjue Li , Lijun Yang , Wen Yao , Yue Deng

The slow inference process of image diffusion models significantly degrades interactive user experiences. To address this, we introduce Diffusion Preview, a novel paradigm employing rapid, low-step sampling to generate preliminary outputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fu-Yun Wang , Hao Zhou , Liangzhe Yuan , Sanghyun Woo , Boqing Gong , Bohyung Han , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Han Zhang , Yukun Zhu , Ting Liu , Long Zhao