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Layout Generation aims to synthesize plausible arrangements from given elements. Currently, the predominant methods in layout generation are Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and diffusion models, each presenting its own set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zhaoxing Gan , Guangnan Ye

We introduce a novel approach for concept blending in pretrained text-to-image diffusion models, aiming to generate images at the intersection of multiple text prompts. At each time step during diffusion denoising, our algorithm forecasts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Divya Kothandaraman , Ming Lin , Dinesh Manocha

In this paper, we focus on Dynamic Execution techniques that optimize the computation flow based on input. This aims to identify simpler problems that can be solved using fewer resources, similar to human cognition. The techniques discussed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Haim Barad , Jascha Achterberg , Tien Pei Chou , Jean Yu

Optimizing complex and high-dimensional black-box functions is ubiquitous in science and engineering fields. Unfortunately, the online evaluation of these functions is restricted due to time and safety constraints in most cases. In offline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Taeyoung Yun , Sujin Yun , Jaewoo Lee , Jinkyoo Park

Diffusion models excel at modeling complex and multimodal trajectory distributions for decision-making and control. Reward-gradient guided denoising has been recently proposed to generate trajectories that maximize both a differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Brian Yang , Huangyuan Su , Nikolaos Gkanatsios , Tsung-Wei Ke , Ayush Jain , Jeff Schneider , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful deep generative techniques, producing high-quality and diverse samples in applications in various domains including audio. While existing reviews provide overviews, there remains limited in-depth…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Ge Zhu , Yutong Wen , Zhiyao Duan

Generative models have had a profound impact on vision and language, paving the way for a new era of multimodal generative applications. While these successes have inspired researchers to explore using generative models in science and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Giorgio Giannone , Akash Srivastava , Ole Winther , Faez Ahmed

Optimizing high-dimensional black-box functions under black-box constraints is a pervasive task in a wide range of scientific and engineering problems. These problems are typically harder than unconstrained problems due to hard-to-find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kiyoung Om , Kyuil Sim , Taeyoung Yun , Hyeongyu Kang , Jinkyoo Park

AI fairness seeks to improve the transparency and explainability of AI systems by ensuring that their outcomes genuinely reflect the best interests of users. Data augmentation, which involves generating synthetic data from existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Christina Hastings Blow , Lijun Qian , Camille Gibson , Pamela Obiomon , Xishuang Dong

Recent advances in generative modeling, namely Diffusion models, have revolutionized generative modeling, enabling high-quality image generation tailored to user needs. This paper proposes a framework for the generative design of structural…

Modern generative AI models, such as diffusion and flow matching models, can sample from rich data distributions. However, many applications, especially in science and engineering, require more than drawing samples from the model…

We address the problem of fine-tuning diffusion models for reward-guided generation in biomolecular design. While diffusion models have proven highly effective in modeling complex, high-dimensional data distributions, real-world…

Diffusion models have demonstrated great potential in generating high-quality content for images, natural language, protein domains, etc. However, how to perform user-preferred targeted generation via diffusion models with only black-box…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-11 Yueming Lyu , Kim Yong Tan , Yew Soon Ong , Ivor W. Tsang

Deep generative models, while revolutionizing fields like image and text generation, largely operate as opaque ``black boxes'', hindering human understanding, control, and alignment. While methods like sparse autoencoders (SAEs) show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Lingjing Kong , Shaoan Xie , Guangyi Chen , Yuewen Sun , Xiangchen Song , Eric P. Xing , Kun Zhang

Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural, we often aim to optimize downstream reward functions while…

Data imputation and data generation have important applications for many domains, like healthcare and finance, where incomplete or missing data can hinder accurate analysis and decision-making. Diffusion models have emerged as powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mario Villaizán-Vallelado , Matteo Salvatori , Carlos Segura , Ioannis Arapakis

Diffusion models have attained prominence for their ability to synthesize a probability distribution for a given dataset via a diffusion process, enabling the generation of new data points with high fidelity. However, diffusion processes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Shervin Khalafi , Dongsheng Ding , Alejandro Ribeiro

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) refers to algorithms that create synthetic but realistic output. Diffusion models currently offer state of the art performance in generative AI for images. They also form a key component in more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Catherine F. Higham , Desmond J. Higham , Peter Grindrod

Diffusion models have become the de-facto approach for generating visual data, which are trained to match the distribution of the training dataset. In addition, we also want to control generation to fulfill desired properties such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Dinghuai Zhang , Yizhe Zhang , Jiatao Gu , Ruixiang Zhang , Josh Susskind , Navdeep Jaitly , Shuangfei Zhai

Spatial profiling technologies in biology, such as imaging mass cytometry (IMC) and spatial transcriptomics (ST), generate high-dimensional, multi-channel data with strong spatial alignment and complex inter-channel relationships.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Haoran Zhang , Mingyuan Zhou , Wesley Tansey