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We propose a novel method for simulating conditioned diffusion processes (diffusion bridges) in Euclidean spaces. By training a neural network to approximate bridge dynamics, our approach eliminates the need for computationally intensive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-23 Gefan Yang , Frank van der Meulen , Stefan Sommer

Synthetic vehicle speed trajectory generation is essential for evaluating vehicle control algorithms and connected vehicle technologies. Traditional Markov chain approaches suffer from discretization artifacts and limited expressiveness.…

Applications · Statistics 2026-02-06 Vadim Sokolov , Farnaz Behnia , Dominik Karbowski

The kinetics of collective rearrangements in solution, such as protein folding and nanocrystal phase transitions, often involve free energy barriers that are both long and rough. Applying methods of transition path sampling to harvest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Grünwald , P. L. Geissler , C. Dellago

Score-based models generate samples by mapping noise to data (and vice versa) via a high-dimensional diffusion process. We question whether it is necessary to run this entire process at high dimensionality and incur all the inconveniences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Bowen Jing , Gabriele Corso , Renato Berlinghieri , Tommi Jaakkola

Synthesizing extrapolated views remains a difficult task, especially in urban driving scenes, where the only reliable sources of data are limited RGB captures and sparse LiDAR points. To address this problem, we present PointmapDiff, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Thang-Anh-Quan Nguyen , Nathan Piasco , Luis Roldão , Moussab Bennehar , Dzmitry Tsishkou , Laurent Caraffa , Jean-Philippe Tarel , Roland Brémond

Score-based generative models exhibit state of the art performance on density estimation and generative modeling tasks. These models typically assume that the data geometry is flat, yet recent extensions have been developed to synthesize…

In this study we introduce a new technique for the generation of terrain maps, exploiting a combination of procedural generation and Neural Style Transfer. We consider our approach to be a viable alternative to competing generative models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Fabio Merizzi

Graph structures offer a versatile framework for representing diverse patterns in nature and complex systems, applicable across domains like molecular chemistry, social networks, and transportation systems. While diffusion models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Adrien Carrel

Mapping the chemical reaction pathways and their corresponding activation barriers is a significant challenge in molecular simulation. Given the inherent complexities of 3D atomic geometries, even generating an initial guess of these paths…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 Akihide Hayashi , So Takamoto , Ju Li , Yuta Tsuboi , Daisuke Okanohara

We propose score dynamics (SD), a general framework for learning accelerated evolution operators with large timesteps from molecular-dynamics simulations. SD is centered around scores, or derivatives of the transition log-probability with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Tim Hsu , Babak Sadigh , Vasily Bulatov , Fei Zhou

Graph is a prevalent discrete data structure, whose generation has wide applications such as drug discovery and circuit design. Diffusion generative models, as an emerging research focus, have been applied to graph generation tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zhe Xu , Ruizhong Qiu , Yuzhong Chen , Huiyuan Chen , Xiran Fan , Menghai Pan , Zhichen Zeng , Mahashweta Das , Hanghang Tong

Generation of graphs is a major challenge for real-world tasks that require understanding the complex nature of their non-Euclidean structures. Although diffusion models have achieved notable success in graph generation recently, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jaehyeong Jo , Dongki Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

Prime path coverage is a powerful structural testing criterion, but generating all prime paths in a directed graph remains computationally challenging due to the potentially exponential number of them. Existing approaches typically rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Jakub Zelek , Jakub Ruszil , Adam Roman , Artur Polański

Generative artificial intelligence offers a promising avenue for materials discovery, yet its advantages over traditional methods remain unclear. In this work, we introduce and benchmark two baseline approaches - random enumeration of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-02 Nathan J. Szymanski , Christopher J. Bartel

This paper focuses on generating test cases from timed symbolic transition systems. At the heart of the generation process are symbolic execution techniques on data and time. Test cases look like finite symbolic trees with verdicts on their…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Boutheina Bannour , Arnault Lapitre , Pascale Le Gall , Thang Nguyen

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

Diffusion models, as a type of generative model, have achieved impressive results in generating images and videos conditioned on textual conditions. However, the generation process of diffusion models involves denoising dozens of steps to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hui Zhang , Zuxuan Wu , Zhen Xing , Jie Shao , Yu-Gang Jiang

We introduce a path sampling method for obtaining statistical properties of an arbitrary stochastic dynamics. The method works by decomposing a trajectory in time, estimating the probability of satisfying a progress constraint, modifying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Nicholas Guttenberg , Aaron R. Dinner , Jonathan Weare

We present a new method for making diffusion models faster to sample. The method distills many-step diffusion models into few-step models by matching conditional expectations of the clean data given noisy data along the sampling trajectory.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Tim Salimans , Thomas Mensink , Jonathan Heek , Emiel Hoogeboom

Diffusion probabilistic models have been successful in generating high-quality and diverse images. However, traditional models, whose input and output are high-resolution images, suffer from excessive memory requirements, making them less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Shinei Arakawa , Hideki Tsunashima , Daichi Horita , Keitaro Tanaka , Shigeo Morishima