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Discrete diffusion models are a powerful class of generative models with strong performance across many domains. For efficiency, however, discrete diffusion typically parameterizes the generative (reverse) process with factorized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Grigory Bartosh , Teodora Pandeva , Sushrut Karmalkar , Javier Zazo

We propose in this paper an analytically new construct of a diffusion model whose drift and diffusion parameters yield an exponentially time-decaying Signal to Noise Ratio in the forward process. In reverse, the construct cleverly carries…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Tanmay Asthana , Yufang Bao , Hamid Krim

Learning dynamical systems from sparse observations is critical in numerous fields, including biology, finance, and physics. Even if tackling such problems is standard in general information fusion, it remains challenging for contemporary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ella Tamir , Arno Solin

Generating high-resolution images with generative models has recently been made widely accessible by leveraging diffusion models pre-trained on large-scale datasets. Various techniques, such as MultiDiffusion and SyncDiffusion, have further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Stanislav Frolov , Brian B. Moser , Andreas Dengel

Autonomous driving demands high-quality LiDAR data, yet the cost of physical LiDAR sensors presents a significant scaling-up challenge. While recent efforts have explored deep generative models to address this issue, they often consume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Qianjiang Hu , Zhimin Zhang , Wei Hu

In this work, we tackle the task of point cloud denoising through a novel framework that adapts Diffusion Schr\"odinger bridges to points clouds. Unlike previous approaches that predict point-wise displacements from point features or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Mathias Vogel , Keisuke Tateno , Marc Pollefeys , Federico Tombari , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Francis Engelmann

Autoregressive point cloud generation has long lagged behind diffusion-based approaches in quality. The performance gap stems from the fact that autoregressive models impose an artificial ordering on inherently unordered point sets, forcing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Ziqiao Meng , Qichao Wang , Zhiyang Dou , Zixing Song , Zhipeng Zhou , Irwin King , Peilin Zhao

Autoregressive point cloud generation has long lagged behind diffusion-based approaches in quality. The performance gap stems from the fact that autoregressive models impose an artificial ordering on inherently unordered point sets, forcing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ziqiao Meng , Qichao Wang , Zhiyang Dou , Zixing Song , Zhipeng Zhou , Irwin King , Peilin Zhao

Generative models have proven effective at modeling 3D shapes and their statistical variations. In this paper we investigate their application to point clouds, a 3D shape representation widely used in computer vision for which, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Roman Klokov , Edmond Boyer , Jakob Verbeek

We present an novel framework for efficiently and effectively extending the powerful continuous diffusion processes to discrete modeling. Previous approaches have suffered from the discrepancy between discrete data and continuous modeling.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yuxuan Gu , Xiaocheng Feng , Lei Huang , Yingsheng Wu , Zekun Zhou , Weihong Zhong , Kun Zhu , Bing Qin

Video grounding aims to localize the target moment in an untrimmed video corresponding to a given sentence query. Existing methods typically select the best prediction from a set of predefined proposals or directly regress the target span…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Xiao Liang , Tao Shi , Yaoyuan Liang , Te Tao , Shao-Lun Huang

Popularized by their strong image generation performance, diffusion and related methods for generative modeling have found widespread success in visual media applications. In particular, diffusion methods have enabled new approaches to data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Yibo Yang , Stephan Mandt

Learning point clouds is challenging due to the lack of connectivity information, i.e., edges. Although existing edge-aware methods can improve the performance by modeling edges, how edges contribute to the improvement is unclear. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Haoyi Xiu , Xin Liu , Weimin Wang , Kyoung-Sook Kim , Takayuki Shinohara , Qiong Chang , Masashi Matsuoka

In this work, we build upon our previous publication and use diffusion-based generative models for speech enhancement. We present a detailed overview of the diffusion process that is based on a stochastic differential equation and delve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Bunlong Lay , Timo Gerkmann

Diffusion probabilistic models have demonstrated an outstanding capability to model natural images and raw audio waveforms through a paired diffusion and reverse processes. The unique property of the reverse process (namely, eliminating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Yen-Ju Lu , Yu Tsao , Shinji Watanabe

Diffusion models have recently exhibited remarkable abilities to synthesize striking image samples since the introduction of denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs). Their key idea is to disrupt images into noise through a fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zijian Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Jun Yu , Qi Tian

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in generating high-quality samples. Existing diffusion-based image restoration algorithms exploit pre-trained diffusion models to leverage data priors, yet they still preserve elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Hongjie Wu , Linchao He , Mingqin Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Kunming Luo , Mengting Luo , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Hu Chen , Jiancheng Lv

We present a new deep point cloud rendering pipeline through multi-plane projections. The input to the network is the raw point cloud of a scene and the output are image or image sequences from a novel view or along a novel camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Peng Dai , Yinda Zhang , Zhuwen Li , Shuaicheng Liu , Bing Zeng

Recent literature has effectively leveraged diffusion models trained on continuous variables as priors for solving inverse problems. Notably, discrete diffusion models with discrete latent codes have shown strong performance, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Naoki Murata , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Bac Nguyen , Stefano Ermon , Yuki Mitsufuji

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved the synthesis of materials, textures, and 3D shapes. By conditioning these models via text or images, users can guide the generation, reducing the time required to create…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Marzia Riso , Giuseppe Vecchio , Fabio Pellacini