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Graphs are essential representations of many real-world data such as social networks. Recent years have witnessed the increasing efforts made to extend the neural network models to graph-structured data. These methods, which are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Yao Ma , Ziyi Guo , Zhaochun Ren , Eric Zhao , Jiliang Tang , Dawei Yin

Inverse molecular design with diffusion models holds great potential for advancements in material and drug discovery. Despite success in unconditional molecular generation, integrating multiple properties such as synthetic score and gas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Gang Liu , Jiaxin Xu , Tengfei Luo , Meng Jiang

With the growing interest in foundation models for brain signals, graph-based pretraining has emerged as a promising paradigm for learning transferable representations from connectome data. However, existing contrastive and masked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xinxu Wei , Rong Zhou , Lifang He , Yu 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…

This work studies discrete diffusion probabilistic models with applications to natural language generation. We derive an alternative yet equivalent formulation of the sampling from discrete diffusion processes and leverage this insight to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Lin Zheng , Jianbo Yuan , Lei Yu , Lingpeng Kong

Diffusion Generative Models (DGM) have rapidly surfaced as emerging topics in the field of computer vision, garnering significant interest across a wide array of deep learning applications. Despite their high computational demand, these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Denisha Thakkar , Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh , Sonal Varma , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Hassan Rivaz , Mahdi S. Hosseini

Recent deep learning approaches seek to automate CAD creation by representing a model as a sequence of discrete commands and parameters, and then generating them using autoregressive models or continuous diffusion operating in Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Honghu Pan , Xiaoling Luo , Yongyong Chen , Zhenyu He , Pengyang Wang

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for molecular generation, particularly in the context of 3D molecular structures. Inspired by non-equilibrium statistical physics, these models can generate 3D molecular structures with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Amira Alakhdar , Barnabas Poczos , Newell Washburn

We explore the methodology and theory of reward-directed generation via conditional diffusion models. Directed generation aims to generate samples with desired properties as measured by a reward function, which has broad applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Hui Yuan , Kaixuan Huang , Chengzhuo Ni , Minshuo Chen , Mengdi Wang

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

Graph learning plays a pivotal role and has gained significant attention in various application scenarios, from social network analysis to recommendation systems, for its effectiveness in modeling complex data relations represented by graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Man Wu , Xin Zheng , Qin Zhang , Xiao Shen , Xiong Luo , Xingquan Zhu , Shirui Pan

The simulation of discrete karst networks presents a significant challenge due to the complexity of the physicochemical processes occurring within various geological and hydrogeological contexts over extended periods. This complex interplay…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-12 Dany Lauzon , Julien Straubhaar , Philippe Renard

The dominant paradigm for machine learning on graphs uses Message Passing Graph Neural Networks (MP-GNNs), in which node representations are updated by aggregating information in their local neighborhood. Recently, there have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Daniel Glickman , Eran Yahav

Diffusion models excel in image generation but lack detailed semantic control using text prompts. Additional techniques have been developed to address this limitation. However, conditioning diffusion models solely on text-based descriptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Frank Fundel

Directed graphs naturally model systems with asymmetric, ordered relationships, essential to applications in biology, transportation, social networks, and visual understanding. Generating such graphs enables tasks such as simulation, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alba Carballo-Castro , Manuel Madeira , Yiming Qin , Dorina Thanou , Pascal Frossard

Diffusion models and flow-matching models have enabled generating diverse and realistic images by learning to transfer noise to data. However, sampling from these models involves iterative denoising over many neural network passes, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kevin Frans , Danijar Hafner , Sergey Levine , Pieter Abbeel

Class-labeled datasets, particularly those common in scientific domains, are rife with internal structure, yet current class-conditional diffusion models ignore these relationships and implicitly diffuse on all classes in a flat fashion. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Alex M. Tseng , Max Shen , Tommaso Biancalani , Gabriele Scalia

In this paper, we study the problem of using representation learning to assist information diffusion prediction on graphs. In particular, we aim at estimating the probability of an inactive node to be activated next in a cascade. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Jia Wang , Vincent W. Zheng , Zemin Liu , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Diffusion models have shown promising results for a wide range of generative tasks with continuous data, such as image and audio synthesis. However, little progress has been made on using diffusion models to generate discrete symbolic music…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jincheng Zhang , György Fazekas , Charalampos Saitis

The discovery of inorganic crystal structures with targeted properties is a significant challenge in materials science. Generative models, especially state-of-the-art diffusion models, offer the promise of modeling complex data…