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In the automatic reassembly of fragments acquired using laser scanners to reconstruct objects, a crucial step is the matching of fractured surfaces. In this paper, we propose a novel local descriptor that uses the Gaussian Mixture Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Meijun Xiong , Zhenguo Shi , Xinyu Zhou , Yuhe Zhang , Shunli Zhang

This study aims to develop a novel Cycle-guided Denoising Diffusion Probability Model (CG-DDPM) for cross-modality MRI synthesis. The CG-DDPM deploys two DDPMs that condition each other to generate synthetic images from two different MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Shaoyan Pan , Chih-Wei Chang , Junbo Peng , Jiahan Zhang , Richard L. J. Qiu , Tonghe Wang , Justin Roper , Tian Liu , Hui Mao , Xiaofeng Yang

Many interesting tasks in image restoration can be cast as linear inverse problems. A recent family of approaches for solving these problems uses stochastic algorithms that sample from the posterior distribution of natural images given the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-14 Bahjat Kawar , Michael Elad , Stefano Ermon , Jiaming Song

In this letter, we propose a Gaussian mixture model (GMM)-based channel estimator which is learned on imperfect training data, i.e., the training data are solely comprised of noisy and sparsely allocated pilot observations. In a practical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Benedikt Fesl , Nurettin Turan , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) provides an effective distribution-level correction for few-step generation, while relying on an auxiliary fake-score network to track the evolving generative distribution. Recent work combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Youngjoong Kim , Deokyeong Lee , Jaesik Park

Multi-modality image fusion aims to combine different modalities to produce fused images that retain the complementary features of each modality, such as functional highlights and texture details. To leverage strong generative priors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Zixiang Zhao , Haowen Bai , Yuanzhi Zhu , Jiangshe Zhang , Shuang Xu , Yulun Zhang , Kai Zhang , Deyu Meng , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Score-based diffusion models, while achieving remarkable empirical performance, often suffer from low sampling speed, due to extensive function evaluations needed during the sampling phase. Despite a flurry of recent activities towards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Gen Li , Yu Huang , Timofey Efimov , Yuting Wei , Yuejie Chi , Yuxin Chen

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) have recently gained significant attention. DDPMs compose a Markovian process that begins in the data domain and gradually adds noise until reaching pure white noise. DDPMs generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Shady Abu-Hussein , Raja Giryes

Diffusion-based generative models (DBGMs) perturb data to a target noise distribution and reverse this process to generate samples. The choice of noising process, or inference diffusion process, affects both likelihoods and sample quality.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Raghav Singhal , Mark Goldstein , Rajesh Ranganath

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

Solving inverse problems with the reverse process of a diffusion model represents an appealing avenue to produce highly realistic, yet diverse solutions from incomplete and possibly noisy measurements, ultimately enabling uncertainty…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-01-10 Matteo Ravasi

Match-and-copy is a core retrieval primitive used at inference time by large language models to retrieve a matching token from the context then copy its successor. Yet, understanding how this behavior emerges on natural data is challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Antoine Gonon , Alexandre Cordonnier , Nicolas Boumal

It is well accepted that acquiring downlink channel state information in frequency division duplexing (FDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is challenging because of the large overhead in training and feedback. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Javad Mirzaei , Shahram ShahbazPanahi , Raviraj Adve , Navaneetha Gopal

Denoising diffusion bridge models (DDBMs) are a powerful variant of diffusion models for interpolating between two arbitrary paired distributions given as endpoints. Despite their promising performance in tasks like image translation, DDBMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Kaiwen Zheng , Guande He , Jianfei Chen , Fan Bao , Jun Zhu

Guided diffusion is a technique for conditioning the output of a diffusion model at sampling time without retraining the network for each specific task. One drawback of diffusion models, however, is their slow sampling process. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Suttisak Wizadwongsa , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

We theoretically study the hallucination phenomena in two canonical diffusion samplers: the stochastic Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) and the deterministic Denoising Diffusion Implicit Model (DDIM). We analyze the reverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Muhammad H. Ashiq , Samanyu Arora , Abhinav N. Harish , Ishaan Kharbanda , Hung Yun Tseng , Grigorios G. Chrysos

We present an approach for efficiently training Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) by Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) with non-stationary, high-dimensional streaming data. Our training scheme does not require data-driven parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Alexander Gepperth , Benedikt Pfülb

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been playing an important role in various domains. Leveraging its high capability to generate high-fidelity and diverse synthetic data, generative AI is widely applied in diagnostic tasks, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yifan Jiang , Ahmad Shariftabrizi , Venkata SK. Manem

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) enables 3D scene reconstruction from several 2D images but incurs high rendering latency via its point-sampling design. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) improves on NeRF with explicit scene representation and an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haomin Li , Bowen Zhu , Fangxin Liu , Zongwu Wang , Xinran Liang , Li Jiang , Haibing Guan

Generative models of graphs based on discrete Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) offer a principled approach to molecular generation by systematically removing structural noise through iterative atom and bond adjustments.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Matteo Ninniri , Marco Podda , Davide Bacciu