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Recent advancements in diffusion models have demonstrated significant success in unsupervised anomaly segmentation. For anomaly segmentation, these models are first trained on normal data; then, an anomalous image is noised to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Mehrdad Moradi , Kamran Paynabar

Deep generative models have emerged as promising tools for detecting arbitrary anomalies in data, dispensing with the necessity for manual labelling. Recently, autoregressive transformers have achieved state-of-the-art performance for…

Diffusion models (DMs) are a type of generative model that has a huge impact on image synthesis and beyond. They achieve state-of-the-art generation results in various generative tasks. A great diversity of conditioning inputs, such as text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Weiguo Lu , Xuan Wu , Deng Ding , Jinqiao Duan , Jirong Zhuang , Gangnan Yuan

While many unsupervised learning models focus on one family of tasks, either generative or discriminative, we explore the possibility of a unified representation learner: a model which uses a single pre-training stage to address both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Soumik Mukhopadhyay , Matthew Gwilliam , Vatsal Agarwal , Namitha Padmanabhan , Archana Swaminathan , Srinidhi Hegde , Tianyi Zhou , Abhinav Shrivastava

Diffusion models offer stable training and state-of-the-art performance for deep generative modeling tasks. Here, we consider their use in the context of multivariate subsurface modeling and probabilistic inversion. We first demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Roberto Miele , Niklas Linde

Diffusion models have emerged as a prominent technique in generative modeling with neural networks, making their mark in tasks like text-to-image translation and super-resolution. In this tutorial, we provide a comprehensive guide to build…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Harshith Bachimanchi , Giovanni Volpe

Speaker verification systems are increasingly deployed in security-sensitive applications but remain highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. In this work, we propose the Mask Diffusion Detector (MDD), a novel adversarial detection…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Yibo Bai , Sizhou Chen , Michele Panariello , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Massimiliano Todisco , Nicholas Evans

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive models for language modeling, yet the effective design of transformer architectures for MDMs remains underexplored. In this paper, we show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sanghyun Lee , Chunsan Hong , Seungryong Kim , Jonghyun Lee , Jongho Park , Dongmin Park

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality data generation. Despite their success in discrete spaces, such as text generation tasks, the acceleration of discrete diffusion models remains under-explored. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Zixiang Chen , Huizhuo Yuan , Yongqian Li , Yiwen Kou , Junkai Zhang , Quanquan Gu

For large-scale applications, there is growing interest in replacing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with lightweight Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) via knowledge distillation. However, distilling GNNs for self-supervised graph representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Seong Jin Ahn , Myoung-Ho Kim

Collective insights from a group of experts have always proven to outperform an individual's best diagnostic for clinical tasks. For the task of medical image segmentation, existing research on AI-based alternatives focuses more on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Aimon Rahman , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M Patel

Discrete diffusion models, like continuous diffusion models, generate high-quality samples by gradually undoing noise applied to datapoints with a Markov process. Gradual generation in theory comes with many conceptual benefits; for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Alan N. Amin , Nate Gruver , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods have demonstrated remarkable performance. Recent advancements have introduced deterministic sampling processes that reduce inference from 15 iterative steps to a single step, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zihang Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang

The discovery and study of new material systems rely on molecular simulations that often come with significant computational expense. We propose MDDM, a Molecular Dynamics Diffusion Model, which is capable of predicting a valid output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Kevin Ferguson , Yu-hsuan Chen , Levent Burak Kara

Neural Network Potentials (NNPs) have emerged as a powerful tool for modelling atomic interactions with high accuracy and computational efficiency. Recently, denoising diffusion models have shown promise in NNPs by training networks to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Liam Harcombe , Timothy T. Duignan

Diffusion models have garnered considerable interest in computer vision, owing both to their capacity to synthesize photorealistic images and to their proven effectiveness in image reconstruction tasks. However, existing approaches fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jonas Dornbusch , Emanuel Pfarr , Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu , Frank Werner , Radu Timofte

Diffusion models are capable of impressive feats of image generation with uncommon juxtapositions such as astronauts riding horses on the moon with properly placed shadows. These outputs indicate the ability to perform compositional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Qiyao Liang , Ziming Liu , Ila Fiete

Nowadays, denoising diffusion probabilistic models have been adapted for many image segmentation tasks. However, existing end-to-end models have already demonstrated remarkable capabilities. Rather than using denoising diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Shi Zhenning , Dong Changsheng , Xie Xueshuo , Pan Bin , He Along , Li Tao

Diffusion Transformer (DiT) has emerged as the new trend of generative diffusion models on image generation. In view of extremely slow convergence in typical DiT, recent breakthroughs have been driven by mask strategy that significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Rui Zhu , Yingwei Pan , Yehao Li , Ting Yao , Zhenglong Sun , Tao Mei , Chang Wen Chen

The emergence of generative AI and controllable diffusion has made image-to-image synthesis increasingly practical and efficient. However, when input images exhibit low entropy and sparse, the inherent characteristics of diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Hao Wang , Xiwen Chen , Ashish Bastola , Jiayou Qin , Abolfazl Razi