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Path planning in complex environments is one of the key problems of artificial intelligence because it requires simultaneous understanding of the geometry of space and the global structure of the problem. In this paper, we explore the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Agnieszka Polowczyk , Alicja Polowczyk , Michał Wieczorek

I give an overview of rare event simulation techniques to generate dynamical pathways across high free energy barriers. The methods on which I will concentrate are the reactive flux approach, transition path sampling, (replica-exchange)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 Titus S. van Erp

We propose a stochastic method to generate exactly the overdamped Langevin dynamics of semi-flexible Gaussian chains, conditioned to evolve between given initial and final conformations in a preassigned time. The initial and final…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-18 Cristian Micheletti , Henri Orland

Diffusion-based generative models have achieved promising results recently, but raise an array of open questions in terms of conceptual understanding, theoretical analysis, algorithm improvement and extensions to discrete, structured,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Xingchao Liu , Lemeng Wu , Mao Ye , Qiang Liu

Many methods that build powerful variational distributions based on unadjusted Langevin transitions exist. Most of these were developed using a wide range of different approaches and techniques. Unfortunately, the lack of a unified analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Tomas Geffner , Justin Domke

Automated creation of synthetic traffic scenarios is a key part of validating the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). In this paper, we propose Scenario Diffusion, a novel diffusion-based architecture for generating traffic scenarios that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ethan Pronovost , Meghana Reddy Ganesina , Noureldin Hendy , Zeyu Wang , Andres Morales , Kai Wang , Nicholas Roy

In this paper, we present an automated pipeline for generating domain-specific synthetic datasets with diffusion models, addressing the distribution shift between pre-trained models and real-world deployment environments. Our three-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Dongsik Yoon , Jongeun Kim

We explore a data-driven approach for learning to optimize neural networks. We construct a dataset of neural network checkpoints and train a generative model on the parameters. In particular, our model is a conditional diffusion transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 William Peebles , Ilija Radosavovic , Tim Brooks , Alexei A. Efros , Jitendra Malik

Addressing decision-making problems using sequence modeling to predict future trajectories shows promising results in recent years. In this paper, we take a step further to leverage the sequence predictive method in wider areas such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Mineui Hong , Minjae Kang , Songhwai Oh

Learning generative models for graph-structured data is challenging because graphs are discrete, combinatorial, and the underlying data distribution is invariant to the ordering of nodes. However, most of the existing generative models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Chenhao Niu , Yang Song , Jiaming Song , Shengjia Zhao , Aditya Grover , Stefano Ermon

Diffusion models generate high-quality synthetic data. They operate by defining a continuous-time forward process which gradually adds Gaussian noise to data until fully corrupted. The corresponding reverse process progressively "denoises"…

Creating large-scale datasets for training high-performance generative models is often prohibitively expensive, especially when associated attributes or annotations must be provided. As a result, merging existing datasets has become a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-31 Yanfeng Yang , Kenji Fukumizu

In this paper we describe a learned method of traffic scene generation designed to simulate the output of the perception system of a self-driving car. In our "Scene Diffusion" system, inspired by latent diffusion, we use a novel combination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Ethan Pronovost , Kai Wang , Nick Roy

Diffusion-based generative models (DGMs) have recently attracted attention in speech enhancement research (SE) as previous works showed a remarkable generalization capability. However, DGMs are also computationally intensive, as they…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Chenda Li , Samuele Cornell , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

Graph generation addresses the problem of generating new graphs that have a data distribution similar to real-world graphs. While previous diffusion-based graph generation methods have shown promising results, they often struggle to scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Tobias Bernecker , Ghalia Rehawi , Francesco Paolo Casale , Janine Knauer-Arloth , Annalisa Marsico

Despite significant advances in video synthesis, research into multi-shot video generation remains in its infancy. Even with scaled-up models and massive datasets, the shot transition capabilities remain rudimentary and unstable, largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xiaoxue Wu , Bingjie Gao , Yu Qiao , Yaohui Wang , Xinyuan Chen

A method to generate reactive trajectories, namely equilibrium trajectories leaving a metastable state and ending in another one is proposed. The algorithm is based on simulating in parallel many copies of the system, and selecting the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Frédéric Cérou , Arnaud Guyader , Tony Lelièvre , David Pommier

Diffusion-based generative models have recently emerged as powerful solutions for high-quality synthesis in multiple domains. Leveraging the bidirectional Markov chains, diffusion probabilistic models generate samples by inferring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Mengyi Zhao , Mengyuan Liu , Bin Ren , Shuling Dai , Nicu Sebe

Diffusion maps approximate the generator of Langevin dynamics from simulation data. They afford a means of identifying the slowly-evolving principal modes of high-dimensional molecular systems. When combined with a biasing mechanism,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-07-01 Zofia Trstanova , Ben Leimkuhler , Tony Lelièvre

This paper introduces the use of statistical distributions based on transport differential equations for clear distinction of transport modes within transient kinetic experiments. More specifically,novel techniques are developed for the…

Applications · Statistics 2025-01-08 M. Ross Kunz , Debtanu Maiti , Gregory Yablonsky , Rebecca Fushimi