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The last decade has shown a tremendous success in solving various computer vision problems with the help of deep learning techniques. Lately, many works have demonstrated that learning-based approaches with suitable network architectures…

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Implicit policies parameterized by generative models, such as Diffusion Policy, have become the standard for policy learning and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in robotics. However, these approaches often suffer from high computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Travis Davies , Yiqi Huang , Alexi Gladstone , Yunxin Liu , Xiang Chen , Heng Ji , Huxian Liu , Luhui Hu

In recent years, Diffusion Models have become the new state-of-the-art in deep generative modeling, ending the long-time dominance of Generative Adversarial Networks. Inspired by the Regularization by Denoising principle, we introduce an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Pasquale Cascarano , Lorenzo Stacchio , Andrea Sebastiani , Alessandro Benfenati , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Gustavo Marfia

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong potential for robotic trajectory planning. However, generating coherent trajectories from high-level instructions remains challenging, especially for long-range composition tasks requiring multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zhixuan Liang , Yao Mu , Hengbo Ma , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Mingyu Ding , Ping Luo

Conditional decision generation with diffusion models has shown powerful competitiveness in reinforcement learning (RL). Recent studies reveal the relation between energy-function-guidance diffusion models and constrained RL problems. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Jifeng Hu , Sili Huang , Zhejian Yang , Shengchao Hu , Li Shen , Hechang Chen , Lichao Sun , Yi Chang , Dacheng Tao

Reinforcement learning has become a central paradigm for improving LLM reasoning, but most existing methods optimize policies over discrete token sequences. This creates a mismatch between the optimization space and the structure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haoqiang Kang , Yizhe Zhang , Nikki Lijing Kuang , Yi-An Ma , Lianhui Qin

We introduce SIRI, Scaling Iterative Reinforcement Learning with Interleaved Compression, a simple yet effective RL approach for Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that enables more efficient and accurate reasoning. Existing studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haoming Wen , Yushi Bai , Juanzi Li , Jie Tang

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance in many domains. However, the model's capability to follow natural language instructions (e.g., spatial relationships between objects, generating complex scenes) is still unsatisfactory. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Xinyan Chen , Jiaxin Ge , Tianjun Zhang , Jiaming Liu , Shanghang Zhang

Elucidating the reasoning process with structured explanations from question to answer is crucial, as it significantly enhances the interpretability, traceability, and trustworthiness of question-answering (QA) systems. However, structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Guoxin Chen , Kexin Tang , Chao Yang , Fuying Ye , Yu Qiao , Yiming Qian

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have heterogeneous inference energy costs based on which model is used and how much it reasons. To reduce energy, it is important to choose the right LRM and operate it in the right way. As a result, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Austin R. Ellis-Mohr , Max Hartman , Lav R. Varshney

Imaging inverse problems can be solved in an unsupervised manner using pre-trained diffusion models, but doing so requires approximating the gradient of the measurement-conditional score function in the diffusion reverse process. We show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Matt C. Bendel , Saurav K. Shastri , Rizwan Ahmad , Philip Schniter

We present IBR, an Iterative Backward Reasoning model to solve the proof generation tasks on rule-based Question Answering (QA), where models are required to reason over a series of textual rules and facts to find out the related proof path…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Hanhao Qu , Yu Cao , Jun Gao , Liang Ding , Ruifeng Xu

Positional reasoning is the process of ordering unsorted parts contained in a set into a consistent structure. We present Positional Diffusion, a plug-and-play graph formulation with Diffusion Probabilistic Models to address positional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Francesco Giuliari , Gianluca Scarpellini , Stuart James , Yiming Wang , Alessio Del Bue

Text-to-image diffusion models can generate stunning visuals, yet they often fail at tasks children find trivial--like placing a dog to the right of a teddy bear rather than to the left. When combinations get more unusual--a giraffe above…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sapir Esther Yiflach , Yuval Atzmon , Gal Chechik

To fully leverage the capabilities of diffusion models, we are often interested in optimizing downstream reward functions during inference. While numerous algorithms for reward-guided generation have been recently proposed due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Masatoshi Uehara , Xingyu Su , Yulai Zhao , Xiner Li , Aviv Regev , Shuiwang Ji , Sergey Levine , Tommaso Biancalani

Many hallmarks of human intelligence, such as generalizing from limited experience, abstract reasoning and planning, analogical reasoning, creative problem solving, and capacity for language require the ability to consolidate experience…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Igor Mordatch

The modeling and simulation of high-dimensional multiscale systems is a critical challenge across all areas of science and engineering. It is broadly believed that even with today's computer advances resolving all spatiotemporal scales…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-13 Emmanuel Menier , Sebastian Kaltenbach , Mouadh Yagoubi , Marc Schoenauer , Petros Koumoutsakos

In Imitation Learning (IL), utilizing suboptimal and heterogeneous demonstrations presents a substantial challenge due to the varied nature of real-world data. However, standard IL algorithms consider these datasets as homogeneous, thereby…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Mark Beliaev , Ramtin Pedarsani

We develop the theory of Energy Conserving Descent (ECD) and introduce ECDSep, a gradient-based optimization algorithm able to tackle convex and non-convex optimization problems. The method is based on the novel ECD framework of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 G. Bruno De Luca , Alice Gatti , Eva Silverstein

There are many real-world knowledge based networked systems with multi-type interacting entities that can be regarded as heterogeneous networks including human connections and biological evolutions. One of the main issues in such networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Soheila Molaei , Hadi Zare , Hadi Veisi