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Controllable molecular graph generation is essential for material and drug discovery, where generated molecules must satisfy diverse property constraints. While recent advances in graph diffusion models have improved generation quality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Anjie Qiao , Zhen Wang , Chuan Chen , DeFu Lian , Enhong Chen

The bifurcation of generative modeling into autoregressive approaches for discrete data (text) and diffusion approaches for continuous data (images) hinders the development of truly unified multimodal systems. While Masked Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yuanfeng Xu , Yuhao Chen , Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang

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

Training-free guided sampling in diffusion models leverages off-the-shelf pre-trained networks, such as an aesthetic evaluation model, to guide the generation process. Current training-free guided sampling algorithms obtain the guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jiachun Pan , Hanshu Yan , Jun Hao Liew , Jiashi Feng , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a widely used technique for controllable generation in diffusion and flow-based models. Despite its empirical success, CFG relies on a heuristic linear extrapolation that is often sensitive to the guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jian-Feng Cai , Haixia Liu , Zhengyi Su , Chao Wang

The diffusion model performs remarkable in generating high-dimensional content but is computationally intensive, especially during training. We propose Progressive Growing of Diffusion Autoencoder (PaGoDA), a novel pipeline that reduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Dongjun Kim , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Yuhta Takida , Naoki Murata , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Yuki Mitsufuji , Stefano Ermon

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

Can a text-to-image diffusion model be used as a training objective for adapting a GAN generator to another domain? In this paper, we show that the classifier-free guidance can be leveraged as a critic and enable generators to distill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Kunpeng Song , Ligong Han , Bingchen Liu , Dimitris Metaxas , Ahmed Elgammal

In light of the widespread success of generative models, a significant amount of research has gone into speeding up their sampling time. However, generative models are often sampled multiple times to obtain a diverse set incurring a cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Gabriele Corso , Yilun Xu , Valentin de Bortoli , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is an essential component of text-to-image diffusion models, and understanding and advancing its operational mechanisms remains a central focus of research. Existing approaches stem from divergent theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Kaibo Wang , Jianda Mao , Tong Wu , Yang Xiang

We introduce GUIDE, a novel continual learning approach that directs diffusion models to rehearse samples at risk of being forgotten. Existing generative strategies combat catastrophic forgetting by randomly sampling rehearsal examples from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Bartosz Cywiński , Kamil Deja , Tomasz Trzciński , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Łukasz Kuciński

This work presents a forward-only diffusion (FoD) approach for generative modelling. In contrast to traditional diffusion models that rely on a coupled forward-backward diffusion scheme, FoD directly learns data generation through a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Neural networks are known to be susceptible to adversarial samples: small variations of natural examples crafted to deliberately mislead the models. While they can be easily generated using gradient-based techniques in digital and physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Haotian Xue , Alexandre Araujo , Bin Hu , Yongxin Chen

Recently proposed generative models for discrete data, such as Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs), exploit conditional independence approximations to reduce the computational cost of popular Auto-Regressive Models (ARMs), at the price of some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-18 Hugo Lavenant , Giacomo Zanella

Diffusion models deliver high quality in image synthesis but remain expensive during training and inference. Recent works have leveraged the inherent redundancy in visual content to make training more affordable by training only on a subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Felix Krause , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Johannes Schusterbauer , Olga Grebenkova , Ming Gui , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Can continuous diffusion models bring the same performance breakthrough on natural language they did for image generation? To circumvent the discrete nature of text data, we can simply project tokens in a continuous space of embeddings, as…

We study a challenging task, conditional human motion generation, which produces plausible human motion sequences according to various conditional inputs, such as action classes or textual descriptors. Since human motions are highly diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Xin Chen , Biao Jiang , Wen Liu , Zilong Huang , Bin Fu , Tao Chen , Jingyi Yu , Gang Yu

Diffusion models have shown remarkable promise for image restoration by leveraging powerful priors. Prominent methods typically frame the restoration problem within a Bayesian inference framework, which iteratively combines a denoising step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Hongjie Wu , Mingqin Zhang , Linchao He , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Jiancheng Lv

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 model is a promising approach to image generation and has been employed for Pose-Guided Person Image Synthesis (PGPIS) with competitive performance. While existing methods simply align the person appearance to the target pose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Yanzuo Lu , Manlin Zhang , Andy J Ma , Xiaohua Xie , Jian-Huang Lai