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Diffusion models, which learn to reverse a signal destruction process to generate new data, typically require the signal at each step to have the same dimension. We argue that, considering the spatial redundancy in image signals, there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Han Zhang , Ruili Feng , Zhantao Yang , Lianghua Huang , Yu Liu , Yifei Zhang , Yujun Shen , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou , Fan Cheng

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation but their practical application is often hindered by the slow sampling speed. Prior efforts of improving efficiency primarily focus on compressing models or reducing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jiuyi Xu , Qing Jin , Meida Chen , Andrew Feng , Yang Sui , Yangming Shi

We develop a distributed algorithm for convex Empirical Risk Minimization, the problem of minimizing large but finite sum of convex functions over networks. The proposed algorithm is derived from directly discretizing the second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Jingzhao Zhang , César A. Uribe , Aryan Mokhtari , Ali Jadbabaie

Diffusion and flow matching models generate high-fidelity data by simulating paths defined by Ordinary or Stochastic Differential Equations (ODEs/SDEs), starting from a tractable prior distribution. The probability flow ODE formulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Liangyu Yuan , Ruoyu Wang , Tong Zhao , Dingwen Fu , Mingkun Lei , Beier Zhu , Chi Zhang

The iterative sampling procedure employed by diffusion models (DMs) often leads to significant inference latency. To address this, we propose Stochastic Consistency Distillation (SCott) to enable accelerated text-to-image generation, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hongjian Liu , Qingsong Xie , TianXiang Ye , Zhijie Deng , Chen Chen , Shixiang Tang , Xueyang Fu , Haonan Lu , Zheng-jun Zha

We introduce the Fixed Point Diffusion Model (FPDM), a novel approach to image generation that integrates the concept of fixed point solving into the framework of diffusion-based generative modeling. Our approach embeds an implicit fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Xingjian Bai , Luke Melas-Kyriazi

Diffusion models have become a successful approach for solving various image inverse problems by providing a powerful diffusion prior. Many studies tried to combine the measurement into diffusion by score function replacement, matrix…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Hanyu Chen , Zhixiu Hao , Liying Xiao

Diffusion models have shown promising results for a wide range of generative tasks with continuous data, such as image and audio synthesis. However, little progress has been made on using diffusion models to generate discrete symbolic music…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jincheng Zhang , György Fazekas , Charalampos Saitis

A popular approach to sample a diffusion-based generative model is to solve an ordinary differential equation (ODE). In existing samplers, the coefficients of the ODE solvers are pre-determined by the ODE formulation, the reverse discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Guoqiang Zhang , Niwa Kenta , W. Bastiaan Kleijn

While working within the spatial domain can pose problems associated with ill-conditioned scores caused by power-law decay, recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have shown that transitioning to the wavelet domain offers a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Xiongye Xiao , Shixuan Li , Luzhe Huang , Gengshuo Liu , Trung-Kien Nguyen , Yi Huang , Di Chang , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Paul Bogdan

Sampling from high-dimensional distributions is a fundamental problem in statistical research and practice. However, great challenges emerge when the target density function is unnormalized and contains isolated modes. We tackle this…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-11 Yixuan Qiu , Xiao Wang

Current video diffusion models achieve impressive generation quality but struggle in interactive applications due to bidirectional attention dependencies. The generation of a single frame requires the model to process the entire sequence,…

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Domain generalization (DG) for object detection aims to enhance detectors' performance in unseen scenarios. This task remains challenging due to complex variations in real-world applications. Recently, diffusion models have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Boyong He , Yuxiang Ji , Qianwen Ye , Zhuoyue Tan , Liaoni Wu

Accelerated gradient methods like Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient (NAG) achieve faster convergence on well-conditioned problems but often diverge on ill-conditioned or non-convex landscapes due to aggressive momentum accumulation. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Sarwan Ali

In this paper, we establish an a priori error analysis of HDG methods with two types of stabilization parameter applied to convection dominated diffusion problem. We show that, using polynomials of degree no greater than k, L2 error of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-13 Guosheng Fu , Weifeng Qiu , Wujun Zhang

Diffusion-based language models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional autoregressive LLMs by enabling parallel token generation and significantly reducing inference latency. However, existing sampling strategies for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Qingyan Wei , Yaojie Zhang , Zhiyuan Liu , Puyu Zeng , Yuxuan Wang , Biqing Qi , Dongrui Liu , Linfeng Zhang

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art image quality. However, sampling is costly at inference time because it requires a large number of function evaluations (NFEs). To reduce NFEs, classical ODE numerical methods have been adopted.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Soochul Park , Yeon Ju Lee

Artifact detection algorithms are crucial to correcting the output generated by diffusion models. However, because of the variety of artifact forms, existing methods require substantial annotated data for training. This requirement limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Dennis Menn , Feng Liang , Hung-Yueh Chiang , Diana Marculescu

Diffusion models with continuous stochastic differential equations (SDEs) have shown superior performances in image generation. It can serve as a deep generative prior to solving the inverse problem in magnetic resonance (MR)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Chentao Cao , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Yue Wang , Shaonan Liu , Taijin Chen , Hairong Zheng , Dong Liang , Yanjie Zhu

Diffusion models play a pivotal role in contemporary generative modeling, claiming state-of-the-art performance across various domains. Despite their superior sample quality, mainstream diffusion-based stochastic samplers like DDPM often…

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