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Exploiting pre-trained diffusion models for restoration has recently become a favored alternative to the traditional task-specific training approach. Previous works have achieved noteworthy success by limiting the solution space using…

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While Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has become standard for improving sample fidelity in conditional diffusion models, it can harm diversity and induce memorization by applying constant guidance regardless of whether a particular sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Felix Koulischer , Florian Handke , Johannes Deleu , Thomas Demeester , Luca Ambrogioni

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable performance in image synthesis, while the text interface does not always provide fine-grained control over certain image factors. For instance, changing a single token in the text can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Chen Wu , Fernando De la Torre

Text-guided generative diffusion models unlock powerful image creation and editing tools. While these have been extended to video generation, current approaches that edit the content of existing footage while retaining structure require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Patrick Esser , Johnathan Chiu , Parmida Atighehchian , Jonathan Granskog , Anastasis Germanidis

Diffusion models have emerged as a pivotal advancement in generative models, setting new standards to the quality of the generated instances. In the current paper we aim to underscore a discrepancy between conventional training methods and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Niket Patel , Luis Salamanca , Luis Barba

The use of denoising diffusion models is becoming increasingly popular in the field of image editing. However, current approaches often rely on either image-guided methods, which provide a visual reference but lack control over semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Zhanbo Feng , Zenan Ling , Xinyu Lu , Ci Gong , Feng Zhou , Wugedele Bao , Jie Li , Fan Yang , Robert C. Qiu

The advancements in generative modeling, particularly the advent of diffusion models, have sparked a fundamental question: how can these models be effectively used for discriminative tasks? In this work, we find that generative models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Mihir Prabhudesai , Tsung-Wei Ke , Alexander C. Li , Deepak Pathak , Katerina Fragkiadaki

We show that diffusion models can achieve image sample quality superior to the current state-of-the-art generative models. We achieve this on unconditional image synthesis by finding a better architecture through a series of ablations. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Prafulla Dhariwal , Alex Nichol

We investigate the approximation efficiency of score functions by deep neural networks in diffusion-based generative modeling. While existing approximation theories utilize the smoothness of score functions, they suffer from the curse of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Song Mei , Yuchen Wu

With the advent of diffusion models, Text-to-Image (T2I) generation has seen substantial advancements. Current T2I models allow users to specify object colors using linguistic color names, and some methods aim to personalize color-object…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Qianru Qiu , Jiafeng Mao , Xueting Wang

Diffusion models struggle to produce samples that respect constraints, a common requirement in scientific applications. Recent approaches have introduced regularization terms in the loss or guidance methods during sampling to enforce such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Victor M. Yeom-Song , Severi Rissanen , Arno Solin , Samuel Kaski , Mingfei Sun

Diffusion models have shown promise in forecasting future data from multivariate time series. However, few existing methods account for recurring structures, or patterns, that appear within the data. We present Pattern-Guided Diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Vivian Lin , Kuk Jin Jang , Wenwen Si , Insup Lee

Diffusion models (DMs) are a type of generative model that has a huge impact on image synthesis and beyond. They achieve state-of-the-art generation results in various generative tasks. A great diversity of conditioning inputs, such as text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Weiguo Lu , Xuan Wu , Deng Ding , Jinqiao Duan , Jirong Zhuang , Gangnan Yuan

Diffusion models have shown impressive results in generating high-quality conditional samples using guidance techniques such as Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG). However, existing methods often require additional training or neural function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kwanyoung Kim , Byeongsu Sim

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance in various generation tasks. However, their theoretical foundations fall far behind. This paper studies score approximation, estimation, and distribution recovery of diffusion models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Minshuo Chen , Kaixuan Huang , Tuo Zhao , Mengdi Wang

Diffusion models have demonstrated significant potential in achieving state-of-the-art performance across various text generation tasks. In this systematic study, we investigate their application to the table-to-text problem by adapting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Aleksei S. Krylov , Oleg D. Somov

We survey continuous-time generative modeling methods based on transporting a simple reference distribution to a data distribution via stochastic or deterministic dynamics. We present a unified framework in which diffusion models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Aditya Ranganath , Mukesh Singhal

Diffusion models transform noise into data by injecting information that was captured in their neural network during the training phase. In this paper, we ask: \textit{what} is this information? We find that, in pixel-space diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Akhil Premkumar

Dataset distillation enables efficient training by distilling the information of large-scale datasets into significantly smaller synthetic datasets. Diffusion based paradigms have emerged in recent years, offering novel perspectives for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Qichao Wang , Yunhong Lu , Hengyuan Cao , Junyi Zhang , Min Zhang

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah