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The recent emergence of diffusion models has significantly advanced the precision of learnable priors, presenting innovative avenues for addressing inverse problems. Since inverse problems inherently entail maximum a posteriori estimation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jiawei Zhang , Jiaxin Zhuang , Cheng Jin , Gen Li , Yuantao Gu

High-resolution structure determination by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) requires the accurate fitting of an atomic model into an experimental density map. Traditional refinement pipelines such as Phenix.real_space_refine and Rosetta…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-10 Fuyao Huang , Xiaozhu Yu , Kui Xu , Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang

We present a new method for making diffusion models faster to sample. The method distills many-step diffusion models into few-step models by matching conditional expectations of the clean data given noisy data along the sampling trajectory.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Tim Salimans , Thomas Mensink , Jonathan Heek , Emiel Hoogeboom

Given the complexity of underwater environments and the variability of water as a medium, underwater images are inevitably subject to various types of degradation. The degradations present nonlinear coupling rather than simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Tao Ye , Hongbin Ren , Chongbing Zhang , Haoran Chen , Xiaosong Li

An inherent fragility of quadrotor systems stems from model inaccuracies and external disturbances. These factors hinder performance and compromise the stability of the system, making precise control challenging. Existing model-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Avirup Das , Rishabh Dev Yadav , Sihao Sun , Mingfei Sun , Samuel Kaski , Wei Pan

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative frameworks by progressively adding noise to data through a forward process and then reversing this process to generate realistic samples. While these models have achieved strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingzhuo Guo , Yu Zhang , Baixu Chen , Haoran Xu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Recent advances in text-to-image generation have primarily relied on extensive datasets and parameter-heavy architectures. These requirements severely limit accessibility for researchers and practitioners who lack substantial computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xianfeng Wu , Yajing Bai , Haoze Zheng , Harold Haodong Chen , Yexin Liu , Zihao Wang , Xuran Ma , Wen-Jie Shu , Xianzu Wu , Harry Yang , Ser-Nam Lim

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a family of algorithms that learn a generative policy to sample discrete objects $x$ with non-negative reward $R(x)$. Learning objectives guarantee the GFlowNet samples $x$ from the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Max W. Shen , Emmanuel Bengio , Ehsan Hajiramezanali , Andreas Loukas , Kyunghyun Cho , Tommaso Biancalani

Recently, diffusion models have been used successfully to fit distributions for cross-modal data translation and multimodal data generation. However, these methods rely on extensive scaling, overlooking the inefficiency and interference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zizhao Hu , Shaochong Jia , Mohammad Rostami

We present a novel and flexible architecture for point cloud segmentation with dual-representation iterative learning. In point cloud processing, different representations have their own pros and cons. Thus, finding suitable ways to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Maosheng Ye , Shuangjie Xu , Tongyi Cao , Qifeng Chen

Diffusion models, a powerful and universal generative AI technology, have achieved tremendous success in computer vision, audio, reinforcement learning, and computational biology. In these applications, diffusion models provide flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Minshuo Chen , Song Mei , Jianqing Fan , Mengdi Wang

Scenario-based probabilistic forecasts have become vital for decision-makers in handling intermittent renewable energies. This paper presents a recent promising deep learning generative approach called denoising diffusion probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Esteban Hernandez Capel , Jonathan Dumas

Limited by the encoder-decoder architecture, learning-based edge detectors usually have difficulty predicting edge maps that satisfy both correctness and crispness. With the recent success of the diffusion probabilistic model (DPM), we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yunfan Ye , Kai Xu , Yuhang Huang , Renjiao Yi , Zhiping Cai

In order to characterize the mechanisms governing the diffusion of particles in biological scenarios, it is essential to accurately determine their diffusive properties. To do so, we propose a machine learning method to characterize…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-29 Borja Requena , Sergi Masó , Joan Bertran , Maciej Lewenstein , Carlo Manzo , Gorka Muñoz-Gil

A key question for machine learning approaches in particle physics is how to best represent and learn from collider events. As an event is intrinsically a variable-length unordered set of particles, we build upon recent machine learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-17 Patrick T. Komiske , Eric M. Metodiev , Jesse Thaler

We develop a novel physics informed deep learning approach for solving nonlinear drift-diffusion equations on metric graphs. These models represent an important model class with a large number of applications in areas ranging from transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Jan Blechschmidt , Tom-Christian Riemer , Max Winkler , Martin Stoll , Jan-F. Pietschmann

Recent empirical studies have demonstrated that diffusion models can effectively learn the image distribution and generate new samples. Remarkably, these models can achieve this even with a small number of training samples despite a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Peng Wang , Huijie Zhang , Zekai Zhang , Siyi Chen , Yi Ma , Qing Qu

Diffusion bridge models have shown great promise in image restoration by explicitly connecting clean and degraded image distributions. However, they often rely on complex and high-cost trajectories, which limit both sampling efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jinhui Hou , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou

Dataset distillation seeks to condense datasets into smaller but highly representative synthetic samples. While diffusion models now lead all generative benchmarks, current distillation methods avoid them and rely instead on GANs or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Brian B. Moser , Federico Raue , Sebastian Palacio , Stanislav Frolov , Andreas Dengel

The predominant success of diffusion models in generative modeling has spurred significant interest in understanding their theoretical foundations. In this work, we propose a feature learning framework aimed at analyzing and comparing the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Andi Han , Wei Huang , Yuan Cao , Difan Zou