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Diffusion models have become a new SOTA generative modeling method in various fields, for which there are multiple survey works that provide an overall survey. With the number of articles on diffusion models increasing exponentially in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Mengchun Zhang , Maryam Qamar , Taegoo Kang , Yuna Jung , Chenshuang Zhang , Sung-Ho Bae , Chaoning Zhang

This paper explores the application diffusion maps as graph shift operators in understanding the underlying geometry of graph signals. The study evaluates the improvements in graph learning when using diffusion map generated filters to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Todd Hildebrant

We introduce multi-frequency vector diffusion maps (MFVDM), a new framework for organizing and analyzing high dimensional datasets. The new method is a mathematical and algorithmic generalization of vector diffusion maps (VDM) and other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Yifeng Fan , Zhizhen Zhao

We present Bayesian Diffusion Models (BDM), a prediction algorithm that performs effective Bayesian inference by tightly coupling the top-down (prior) information with the bottom-up (data-driven) procedure via joint diffusion processes. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Haiyang Xu , Yu Lei , Zeyuan Chen , Xiang Zhang , Yue Zhao , Yilin Wang , Zhuowen Tu

The Riemannian geometry is one of the main theoretical pieces in Modern Mathematics and Physics. The study of Riemann Geometry in the relevant literature is performed by using a well defined analytical path. Usually it starts from the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Juan Mendez

A fundamental challenge in text-to-3D face generation is achieving high-quality geometry. The core difficulty lies in the arbitrary and intricate distribution of vertices in 3D space, making it challenging for existing models to establish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Junyi Zhang , Yiming Wang , Yunhong Lu , Qichao Wang , Wenzhe Qian , Xiaoyin Xu , David Gu , Min Zhang

One of the fundamental problems within the field of machine learning is dimensionality reduction. Dimensionality reduction methods make it possible to combat the so-called curse of dimensionality, visualize high-dimensional data and, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Sergio García-Heredia , Ángela Fernández , Carlos M. Alaíz

Practical diffusion sampling is a numerical approximation problem: under a fixed inference budget, one must simulate a reverse-time ODE or SDE using only a limited number of denoising steps, so discretization error is often the dominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Samuel Hurault , Thomas Moreau , Gabriel Peyré

Score-based methods, such as diffusion models and Bayesian inverse problems, are often interpreted as learning the data distribution in the low-noise limit ($\sigma \to 0$). In this work, we propose an alternative perspective: their success…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-17 Xiang Li , Zebang Shen , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Niao He

Diffusion-based motion planners are becoming popular due to their well-established performance improvements, stemming from sample diversity and the ease of incorporating new constraints directly during inference. However, a primary…

The information geometry of the 2-manifold of gamma probability density functions provides a framework in which pseudorandom number generators may be evaluated using a neighbourhood of the curve of exponential density functions. The process…

Computation · Statistics 2009-07-13 C. T. J. Dodson

Diffusion-based manifold learning methods have proven useful in representation learning and dimensionality reduction of modern high dimensional, high throughput, noisy datasets. Such datasets are especially present in fields like biology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Guillaume Huguet , Alexander Tong , Edward De Brouwer , Yanlei Zhang , Guy Wolf , Ian Adelstein , Smita Krishnaswamy

We introduce a theory of local kernels, which generalize the kernels used in the standard diffusion maps construction of nonparametric modeling. We prove that evaluating a local kernel on a data set gives a discrete representation of the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-01-07 Tyrus Berry , Timothy Sauer

The purpose of this paper is to provide a both comprehensive and summarizing account on recent results about analysis and geometry on configuration spaces $\Gamma_X$ over Riemannian manifolds $X$. Particular emphasis is given to a complete…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Michael Röckner

We introduce, test and discuss a method for classifying and clustering data modeled as directed graphs. The idea is to start diffusion processes from any subset of a data collection, generating corresponding distributions for reaching…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-26 Jimmy Dubuisson , Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Andrea Agazzi

A new methodology is proposed for generating realizations of a random vector with values in a finite-dimensional Euclidean space that are statistically consistent with a data set of observations of this vector. The probability distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Christian Soize , Roger Ghanem

We detail an approach to develop Stein's method for bounding integral metrics on probability measures defined on a Riemannian manifold $\mathbf M$. Our approach exploits the relationship between the generator of a diffusion on $\mathbf M$…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Huiling Le , Alexander Lewis , Karthik Bharath , Christopher Fallaize

Despite the remarkable empirical success of score-based diffusion models, their statistical guarantees remain underdeveloped. Existing analyses often provide pessimistic convergence rates that do not reflect the intrinsic low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-24 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Quentin Berthet , Peter L. Bartlett

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for generative tasks in deep learning. They decompose generative modeling into two computational primitives: deterministic neural-network evaluation and stochastic sampling. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nihal Sanjay Singh , Mazdak Mohseni-Rajaee , Shaila Niazi , Kerem Y. Camsari

The geometry of generative models serves as the basis for interpolation, model inspection, and more. Unfortunately, most generative models lack a principal notion of geometry without restrictive assumptions on either the model or the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Frederik Möbius Rygaard , Shen Zhu , Yinzhu Jin , Søren Hauberg , Tom Fletcher