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Counterfactual explanations methods provide an important tool in the field of {interpretable machine learning}. Recent advances in this direction have focused on diffusion models to explain a deep classifier. However, these techniques have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wei Zhang , Brian Barr , John Paisley

Diffusion-based data augmentation (DiffDA) has emerged as a promising approach to improving classification performance under data scarcity. However, existing works vary significantly in task configurations, model choices, and experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zekun Li , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao , Dong Xu

Recent studies on deepfake detection have achieved promising results when training and testing faces are from the same dataset. However, their results severely degrade when confronted with forged samples that the model has not yet seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Tiewen Chen , Shanmin Yang , Shu Hu , Zhenghan Fang , Ying Fu , Xi Wu , Xin Wang

Autoregressive video diffusion models hold promise for world simulation but are vulnerable to exposure bias arising from the train-test mismatch. While recent works address this via post-training, they typically rely on a bidirectional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yuwei Guo , Ceyuan Yang , Hao He , Yang Zhao , Meng Wei , Zhenheng Yang , Weilin Huang , Dahua Lin

Recent progress in generative models has made it easier for a wide audience to edit and create image content, raising concerns about the proliferation of deepfakes, especially in healthcare. Despite the availability of numerous techniques…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Fred Grabovski , Lior Yasur , Guy Amit , Yisroel Mirsky

Data attribution for generative models seeks to quantify the influence of individual training examples on model outputs. Existing methods for diffusion models typically require access to model gradients or retraining, limiting their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yutian Zhao , Chao Du , Xiaosen Zheng , Tianyu Pang , Min Lin

For multivariate co-generation in scientific applications, we advocate pairwise block rather than joint modeling of all variables. This design mitigates the computational burden and data imbalance. To this end, we propose an Annealed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hantao Zhang , Jieke Wu , Mingda Xu , Xiao Hu , Yingxuan You , Pascal Fua

Many approaches have been proposed to use diffusion models to augment training datasets for downstream tasks, such as classification. However, diffusion models are themselves trained on large datasets, often with noisy annotations, and it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Max F. Burg , Florian Wenzel , Dominik Zietlow , Max Horn , Osama Makansi , Francesco Locatello , Chris Russell

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as powerful generative models for solving inverse problems, offering a good approximation of prior distributions of real-world image data. Typically, diffusion models rely on large-scale clean signals to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yifei Wang , Weimin Bai , Weijian Luo , Wenzheng Chen , He Sun

Diffusion models have made significant advances recently in high-quality image synthesis and related tasks. However, diffusion models trained on real-world datasets, which often follow long-tailed distributions, yield inferior fidelity for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Divin Yan , Lu Qi , Vincent Tao Hu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Meng Tang

When a model attribution technique highlights a particular part of the input, a user might understand this highlight as making a statement about counterfactuals (Miller, 2019): if that part of the input were to change, the model's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Xi Ye , Rohan Nair , Greg Durrett

Causal inference is fundamental across scientific disciplines, yet existing methods struggle to capture instantaneous, time-evolving causal relationships in complex, high-dimensional systems. In this paper, assimilative causal inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Marios Andreou , Nan Chen , Erik Bollt

Generative foundation models like Stable Diffusion comprise a diverse spectrum of knowledge in computer vision with the potential for transfer learning, e.g., via generating data to train student models for downstream tasks. This could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Leonhard Hennicke , Christian Medeiros Adriano , Holger Giese , Jan Mathias Koehler , Lukas Schott

Graph diffusion models have gained significant attention in graph generation tasks, but they often inherit and amplify topology biases from sensitive attributes (e.g. gender, age, region), leading to unfair synthetic graphs. Existing fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wendi Wang , Jiaxi Yang , Yongkang Du , Lu Lin

Diffusion models have found phenomenal success as expressive priors for solving inverse problems, but their extension beyond natural images to more structured scientific domains remains limited. Motivated by applications in materials…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Timofey Efimov , Harry Dong , Megna Shah , Jeff Simmons , Sean Donegan , Yuejie Chi

Diffusion models are learning pattern-learning systems to model and sample from data distributions with three functional components namely the forward process, the reverse process, and the sampling process. The components of diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Ziyi Chang , George Alex Koulieris , Hyung Jin Chang , Hubert P. H. Shum

Diffusion-based generative models demonstrate state-of-the-art performance across various image synthesis tasks, yet their tendency to replicate and amplify dataset biases remains poorly understood. Although previous research has viewed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Nathan Roos , Ekaterina Iakovleva , Ani Gjergji , Vito Paolo Pastore , Enzo Tartaglione

Stance detection models may tend to rely on dataset bias in the text part as a shortcut and thus fail to sufficiently learn the interaction between the targets and texts. Recent debiasing methods usually treated features learned by small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Jianhua Yuan , Yanyan Zhao , Bing Qin

Fashion attribute editing is a task that aims to convert the semantic attributes of a given fashion image while preserving the irrelevant regions. Previous works typically employ conditional GANs where the generator explicitly learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Chaerin Kong , DongHyeon Jeon , Ohjoon Kwon , Nojun Kwak

As machine learning (ML) models become more widely deployed in high-stakes applications, counterfactual explanations have emerged as key tools for providing actionable model explanations in practice. Despite the growing popularity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Martin Pawelczyk , Chirag Agarwal , Shalmali Joshi , Sohini Upadhyay , Himabindu Lakkaraju