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Computational sampling has been central to the sciences since the mid-20th century. While machine-learning-based approaches have recently enabled major advances, their behavior remains poorly understood, with limited theoretical control…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-21 Luca Maria Del Bono , Giulio Biroli , Patrick Charbonneau , Marylou Gabrié

Conventional diffusion models typically relies on a fixed forward process, which implicitly defines complex marginal distributions over latent variables. This can often complicate the reverse process' task in learning generative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-10 Grigory Bartosh , Dmitry Vetrov , Christian A. Naesseth

We propose to learn the time-varying stochastic computational resource usage of software as a graph structured Schr\"odinger bridge problem. In general, learning the computational resource usage from data is challenging because resources…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Georgiy A. Bondar , Robert Gifford , Linh Thi Xuan Phan , Abhishek Halder

We introduce Diffusion Active Learning, a novel approach that combines generative diffusion modeling with data-driven sequential experimental design to adaptively acquire data for inverse problems. Although broadly applicable, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Luis Barba , Johannes Kirschner , Tomas Aidukas , Manuel Guizar-Sicairos , Benjamín Béjar

The use of guidance to steer sampling toward desired outcomes has been widely explored within diffusion models, especially in applications such as image and trajectory generation. However, incorporating guidance during training remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Marvin Alles , Nutan Chen , Patrick van der Smagt , Botond Cseke

In this paper we describe a novel framework for diffusion-based generative modeling on constrained spaces. In particular, we introduce manual bridges, a framework that expands the kinds of constraints that can be practically used to form…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Saeid Naderiparizi , Xiaoxuan Liang , Berend Zwartsenberg , Frank Wood

In recent years, diffusion models have become the leading approach for distribution learning. This paper focuses on structure-preserving diffusion models (SPDM), a specific subset of diffusion processes tailored for distributions with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Haoye Lu , Spencer Szabados , Yaoliang Yu

Diffusion models have emerged as the de facto choice for generating high-quality visual signals across various domains. However, training a single model to predict noise across various levels poses significant challenges, necessitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tiankai Hang , Shuyang Gu , Xin Geng , Baining Guo

Besides the classical offline setup of machine learning, stream learning constitutes a well-established setup where data arrives over time in potentially non-stationary environments. Concept drift, the phenomenon that the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Fabian Hinder , Valerie Vaquet , David Komnick , Barbara Hammer

By framing reinforcement learning as a sequence modeling problem, recent work has enabled the use of generative models, such as diffusion models, for planning. While these models are effective in predicting long-horizon state trajectories…

Compositional diffusion models offer a promising route to long-horizon planning by denoising multiple overlapping sub-trajectories while ensuring that together they constitute a global solution. However, enforcing local behavior over long…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yaniv Hassidof , Adir Morgan , Yilun Du , Kiril Solovey

Diffusion models have gained significant attention for high-fidelity image generation. Our work investigates the potential of exploiting diffusion models for adversarial robustness in image classification and object detection. Adversarial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Mika Yagoda , Shady Abu-Hussein , Raja Giryes

Classifier free guidance has shown strong potential in diffusion-based reinforcement learning. However, existing methods rely on joint training of the guidance module and the diffusion model, which can be suboptimal during the early stages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhaoyang Chen , Cody Fleming

Recent developments in offline reinforcement learning have uncovered the immense potential of diffusion modeling, which excels at representing heterogeneous behavior policies. However, sampling from diffusion policies is considerably slow…

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Diffusion models have seen tremendous success as generative architectures. Recently, they have been shown to be effective at modelling policies for offline reinforcement learning and imitation learning. We explore using diffusion as a model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Liam Schramm , Abdeslam Boularias

Planning is a data efficient decision-making strategy where an agent selects candidate actions by exploring possible future states. To simulate future states when there is a high-dimensional action space, the knowledge of one's decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Jaesung Yoo , Fernanda de la Torre , Guangyu Robert Yang

Diffusion bridge models establish probabilistic paths between arbitrary paired distributions and exhibit great potential for universal image restoration. Most existing methods merely treat them as simple variants of stochastic interpolants,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hebaixu Wang , Jing Zhang , Haoyang Chen , Haonan Guo , Di Wang , Jiayi Ma , Bo Du

Addressing real-world optimization problems becomes particularly challenging when analytic objective functions or constraints are unavailable. While numerous studies have addressed the issue of unknown objectives, limited research has…

Bridge models in image restoration construct a diffusion process from degraded to clear images. However, existing methods typically require training a bridge model from scratch for each specific type of degradation, resulting in high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hanting Wang , Tao Jin , Wang Lin , Shulei Wang , Hai Huang , Shengpeng Ji , Zhou Zhao

Text-to-image diffusion models enable high-quality image generation but are computationally expensive. While prior work optimizes per-inference efficiency, we explore an orthogonal approach: reducing redundancy across correlated prompts.…

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