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We study the problem of generating graph signals from unknown distributions defined over given graphs, relevant to domains such as recommender systems or sensor networks. Our approach builds on generative diffusion models, which are well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sergio Rozada , Vimal K. B. , Andrea Cavallo , Antonio G. Marques , Hadi Jamali-Rad , Elvin Isufi

Discrete diffusion models, like continuous diffusion models, generate high-quality samples by gradually undoing noise applied to datapoints with a Markov process. Gradual generation in theory comes with many conceptual benefits; for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Alan N. Amin , Nate Gruver , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Recently, methods that represent data as a graph, such as graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successfully used to learn data representations and structures to solve classification and link prediction problems. The applications of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Usman Mahmood , Zening Fu , Vince Calhoun , Sergey Plis

Diffusion models (DMs) embark a new era of generative modeling and offer more opportunities for efficient generating high-quality and realistic data samples. However, their widespread use has also brought forth new challenges in model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Jingyao Xu , Yuetong Lu , Yandong Li , Siyang Lu , Dongdong Wang , Xiang Wei

This paper explores image modeling from the frequency space and introduces DCTdiff, an end-to-end diffusion generative paradigm that efficiently models images in the discrete cosine transform (DCT) space. We investigate the design space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Mang Ning , Mingxiao Li , Jianlin Su , Haozhe Jia , Lanmiao Liu , Martin Beneš , Wenshuo Chen , Albert Ali Salah , Itir Onal Ertugrul

The forward model in diffuse optical tomography (DOT) describes how light propagates through a turbid medium. It is often approximated by a diffusion equation (DE) that is numerically discretized by the classical finite element method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-04 Wenqi Lu , Jinming Duan , Joshua Deepak Veesa , Iain B. Styles

Text-to-image diffusion models can create stunning images from natural language descriptions that rival the work of professional artists and photographers. However, these models are large, with complex network architectures and tens of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yanyu Li , Huan Wang , Qing Jin , Ju Hu , Pavlo Chemerys , Yun Fu , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

With the magnitude of graph-structured data continually increasing, graph processing systems that can scale-out and scale-up are needed to handle extreme-scale datasets. While existing distributed out-of-core solutions have made it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Jiping Yu , Wei Qin , Xiaowei Zhu , Zhenbo Sun , Jianqiang Huang , Xiaohan Li , Wenguang Chen

Typical generative diffusion models rely on a Gaussian diffusion process for training the backward transformations, which can then be used to generate samples from Gaussian noise. However, real world data often takes place in discrete-state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Javier E Santos , Zachary R. Fox , Nicholas Lubbers , Yen Ting Lin

In this paper we study a discrete time consensus model on a connected graph with monotonically increasing peer-pressure and noise perturbed outputs masking a hidden state. We assume that each agent maintains a constant hidden state and a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-05 Christopher Griffin , Anna Squicciarini , Feiran Jia

The analogy to heat diffusion has enhanced our understanding of information flow in graphs and inspired the development of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, most diffusion-based GNNs emulate passive heat diffusion, which still suffers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Mengying Jiang

The diffusion model has demonstrated promising results in image generation, recently becoming mainstream and representing a notable advancement for many generative modeling tasks. Prior applications of the diffusion model for both fast…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-18 Cheng Jiang , Sitian Qian , Huilin Qu

Prior masked modeling motion generation methods predominantly study text-to-motion. We present DiMo, a discrete diffusion-style framework, which extends masked modeling to bidirectional text--motion understanding and generation. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ning Zhang , Zhengyu Li , Kwong Weng Loh , Mingxi Xu , Qi Wang , Zhengyu Wen , Xiaoyu He , Wei Zhao , Kehong Gong , Mingyuan Zhang

Being the most cutting-edge generative methods, diffusion methods have shown great advances in wide generation tasks. Among them, graph generation attracts significant research attention for its broad application in real life. In our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Hongyang Chen , Can Xu , Lingyu Zheng , Qiang Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Deep generative models have recently achieved significant success in modeling graph data, including dynamic graphs, where topology and features evolve over time. However, unlike in vision and natural language domains, evaluating generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ryien Hosseini , Filippo Simini , Venkatram Vishwanath , Rebecca Willett , Henry Hoffmann

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

Diffusion models offer stable training and state-of-the-art performance for deep generative modeling tasks. Here, we consider their use in the context of multivariate subsurface modeling and probabilistic inversion. We first demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Roberto Miele , Niklas Linde

The objective for establishing dense correspondence between paired images consists of two terms: a data term and a prior term. While conventional techniques focused on defining hand-designed prior terms, which are difficult to formulate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Jisu Nam , Gyuseong Lee , Sunwoo Kim , Hyeonsu Kim , Hyoungwon Cho , Seyeon Kim , Seungryong Kim

Uniform-state discrete diffusion models hold the promise of fast text generation due to their inherent ability to self-correct. However, they are typically outperformed by autoregressive models and masked diffusion models. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Subham Sekhar Sahoo , Justin Deschenaux , Aaron Gokaslan , Guanghan Wang , Justin Chiu , Volodymyr Kuleshov

Graphs are a commonly used construct for representing relationships between elements in complex high dimensional datasets. Many real-world phenomenon are dynamic in nature, meaning that any graph used to represent them is inherently…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Stephen Bonner , John Brennan , Ibad Kureshi , Georgios Theodoropoulos , Andrew Stephen McGough , Boguslaw Obara