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Diffusion models are a class of generative models that learn to synthesize samples by inverting a diffusion process that gradually maps data into noise. While these models have enjoyed great success recently, a full theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Raja Marjieh , Ilia Sucholutsky , Thomas A. Langlois , Nori Jacoby , Thomas L. Griffiths

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful new family of deep generative models with record-breaking performance in many applications, including image synthesis, video generation, and molecule design. In this survey, we provide an overview…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ling Yang , Zhilong Zhang , Yang Song , Shenda Hong , Runsheng Xu , Yue Zhao , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Diffusion-based generative models' impressive ability to create convincing images has garnered global attention. However, their complex structures and operations often pose challenges for non-experts to grasp. We present Diffusion…

Denoising diffusion models enable conditional generation and density modeling of complex relationships like images and text. However, the nature of the learned relationships is opaque making it difficult to understand precisely what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xianghao Kong , Ollie Liu , Han Li , Dani Yogatama , Greg Ver Steeg

Diffusion models have shown incredible capabilities as generative models; indeed, they power the current state-of-the-art models on text-conditioned image generation such as Imagen and DALL-E 2. In this work we review, demystify, and unify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Calvin Luo

Recent advances in video generation have revealed an unexpected phenomenon: diffusion-based video models exhibit non-trivial reasoning capabilities. Prior work attributes this to a Chain-of-Frames (CoF) mechanism, where reasoning is assumed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ruisi Wang , Zhongang Cai , Fanyi Pu , Junxiang Xu , Wanqi Yin , Maijunxian Wang , Ran Ji , Chenyang Gu , Bo Li , Ziqi Huang , Hokin Deng , Dahua Lin , Ziwei Liu , Lei Yang

Diffusion-based generative models' impressive ability to create convincing images has garnered global attention. However, their complex internal structures and operations often pose challenges for non-experts to grasp. We introduce…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Seongmin Lee , Benjamin Hoover , Hendrik Strobelt , Zijie J. Wang , ShengYun Peng , Austin Wright , Kevin Li , Haekyu Park , Haoyang Yang , Polo Chau

Visual illusions in humans arise when interpreting out-of-distribution stimuli: if the observer is adapted to certain statistics, perception of outliers deviates from reality. Recent studies have shown that artificial neural networks (ANNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Alex Gomez-Villa , Kai Wang , Alejandro C. Parraga , Bartlomiej Twardowski , Jesus Malo , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Joost van de Weijer

This paper demonstrates how to use generative models trained for image synthesis as tools for visual data mining. Our insight is that since contemporary generative models learn an accurate representation of their training data, we can use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Ioannis Siglidis , Aleksander Holynski , Alexei A. Efros , Mathieu Aubry , Shiry Ginosar

Denosing diffusion model, as a generative model, has received a lot of attention in the field of image generation recently, thanks to its powerful generation capability. However, diffusion models have not yet received sufficient research in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 ZiHan Cao , ShiQi Cao , Xiao Wu , JunMing Hou , Ran Ran , Liang-Jian Deng

Diffusion Models are popular generative modeling methods in various vision tasks, attracting significant attention. They can be considered a unique instance of self-supervised learning methods due to their independence from label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-19 Michael Fuest , Pingchuan Ma , Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Vincent Tao Hu , Bjorn Ommer

Video diffusion models have revolutionized generative video synthesis, but they are imprecise, slow, and can be opaque during generation -- keeping users in the dark for a prolonged period. In this work, we propose DiffusionBrowser, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Susung Hong , Chongjian Ge , Zhifei Zhang , Jui-Hsien Wang

Diffusion models, widely used in image generation, rely on iterative refinement to generate images from noise. Understanding this data evolution is important for model development and interpretability, yet challenging due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Vidya Prasad , Hans van Gorp , Christina Humer , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Anna Vilanova , Nicola Pezzotti

The problem of text-guided image generation is a complex task in Computer Vision, with various applications, including creating visually appealing artwork and realistic product images. One popular solution widely used for this task is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Halil Faruk Karagoz , Gulcin Baykal , Irem Arikan Eksi , Gozde Unal

The latest developments in Artificial Intelligence include diffusion generative models, quite popular tools which can produce original images both unconditionally and, in some cases, conditioned by some inputs provided by the user. Apart…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Stefano Scotta , Alberto Messina

We propose Context Diffusion, a diffusion-based framework that enables image generation models to learn from visual examples presented in context. Recent work tackles such in-context learning for image generation, where a query image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ivona Najdenkoska , Animesh Sinha , Abhimanyu Dubey , Dhruv Mahajan , Vignesh Ramanathan , Filip Radenovic

Diffusion models have established themselves as state-of-the-art generative models across various data modalities, including images and videos, due to their ability to accurately approximate complex data distributions. Unlike traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Daniel Wesego

Visual anagrams are images that change appearance upon transformation, like flipping or rotation. With the advent of diffusion models, generating such optical illusions can be achieved by averaging noise across multiple views during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Zhiyuan Xu , Yinhe Chen , Huan-ang Gao , Weiyan Zhao , Guiyu Zhang , Hao Zhao

Recent advances in image generation have made diffusion models powerful tools for creating high-quality images. However, their iterative denoising process makes understanding and interpreting their semantic latent spaces more challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 E. Zhixuan Zeng , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong

Diffusion models, a powerful and universal generative AI technology, have achieved tremendous success in computer vision, audio, reinforcement learning, and computational biology. In these applications, diffusion models provide flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Minshuo Chen , Song Mei , Jianqing Fan , Mengdi Wang