English
Related papers

Related papers: The Emergence of Reproducibility and Generalizabil…

200 papers

Diffusion models have emerged from various theoretical and methodological perspectives, each offering unique insights into their underlying principles. In this work, we provide an overview of the most prominent approaches, drawing attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Solveig Klepper

This book presents the core principles that have guided the development of diffusion models, tracing their origins and showing how diverse formulations arise from shared mathematical ideas. Diffusion modeling starts by defining a forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yang Song , Dongjun Kim , Yuki Mitsufuji , Stefano Ermon

Text-to-image diffusion models achieve impressive visual fidelity, yet they remain unreliable in multi-object generation. Despite extensive empirical evidence of these failures, the underlying causes remain unclear. We begin by asking how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yujin Jeong , Arnas Uselis , Iro Laina , Seong Joon Oh , Anna Rohrbach

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of generative tasks. A key challenge is understanding the mechanisms that prevent their memorization of training data and allow generalization. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tony Bonnaire , Raphaël Urfin , Giulio Biroli , Marc Mézard

Generalization in generative modeling is defined as the ability to learn an underlying distribution from a finite dataset and produce novel samples, with evaluation largely driven by held-out performance and perceived sample quality. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jerome Garnier-Brun , Luca Biggio , Davide Beltrame , Marc Mézard , Luca Saglietti

Diffusion models have revolutionized various application domains, including computer vision and audio generation. Despite the state-of-the-art performance, diffusion models are known for their slow sample generation due to the extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zehao Dou , Minshuo Chen , Mengdi Wang , Zhuoran Yang

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in synthesizing diverse content. However, despite their high-quality outputs, these models often perpetuate social biases, including those related to gender and race. These biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yingdong Shi , Changming Li , Yifan Wang , Yongxiang Zhao , Anqi Pang , Sibei Yang , Jingyi Yu , Kan Ren

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for generative modeling, with guidance techniques playing a crucial role in enhancing sample quality. Despite their empirical success, a comprehensive theoretical understanding of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-05 Gen Li , Yuchen Jiao

Diffusion models are generative models that have shown significant advantages compared to other generative models in terms of higher generation quality and more stable training. However, the computational need for training diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Gulcin Baykal , Halil Faruk Karagoz , Taha Binhuraib , Gozde Unal

Modern generative models exhibit unprecedented capabilities to generate extremely realistic data. However, given the inherent compositionality of the real world, reliable use of these models in practical applications requires that they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Maya Okawa , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Robert P. Dick , Hidenori Tanaka

Diffusion models generate high-dimensional data such as images by learning a process that gradually removes noise from corrupted data. Recent studies have shown that the backward dynamics of diffusion models exhibit two characteristic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-14 Tomoei Takahashi , Takashi Takahashi , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

Diffusion guidance is a powerful technique that enables controllable and high-fidelity sample generation with diffusion models. At a high level, it modifies the score function by incorporating a guidance term that steers the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ruijia Cao , Yuchen Wu , Nisha Chandramoorthy

Diffusion models have emerged as the leading paradigm in generative modeling, excelling in various applications. Despite their success, these models often misalign with human intentions and generate results with undesired properties or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Buhua Liu , Shitong Shao , Bao Li , Lichen Bai , Zhiqiang Xu , Haoyi Xiong , James Kwok , Sumi Helal , Zeke Xie

Diffusion generative models have demonstrated remarkable success in visual domains such as image and video generation. They have also recently emerged as a promising approach in robotics, especially in robot manipulations. Diffusion models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Rosa Wolf , Yitian Shi , Sheng Liu , Rania Rayyes

Diffusion models have significantly advanced the field of generative modeling. However, training a diffusion model is computationally expensive, creating a pressing need to adapt off-the-shelf diffusion models for downstream generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jincheng Zhong , Xingzhuo Guo , Jiaxiang Dong , Mingsheng Long

The creativity of diffusion models refers to their ability to generate highly realistic images that are different from their training data. Creativity is somewhat surprising since it is known that if the denoiser used in the diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Itamar Levine , Yair Weiss

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) are powerful generative models that have achieved unparalleled success in a number of generative tasks. In this work, we aim to build inductive biases into the training and sampling of diffusion models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Thomas Jiralerspong , Berton Earnshaw , Jason Hartford , Yoshua Bengio , Luca Scimeca

Diffusion-based generative modeling has been achieving state-of-the-art results on various generation tasks. Most diffusion models, however, are limited to a single-generation modeling. Can we generalize diffusion models with the ability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Changyou Chen , Han Ding , Bunyamin Sisman , Yi Xu , Ouye Xie , Benjamin Z. Yao , Son Dinh Tran , Belinda Zeng

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative modeling, enabling unprecedented realism in image and video synthesis. This success has sparked interest in leveraging their representations for visual understanding tasks. While recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Pedro Vélez , Luisa F. Polanía , Yi Yang , Chuhan Zhang , Rishabh Kabra , Anurag Arnab , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi

Despite the remarkable performance of generative Diffusion Models (DMs), their internal working is still not well understood, which is potentially problematic. This paper focuses on exploring the important notion of bias-variance tradeoff…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Shahin Hakemi , Naveed Akhtar , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Ajmal Mian