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We show that a Denoising Diffusion Probabalistic Model (DDPM), a class of score-based generative model, can be used to produce realistic mock images that mimic observations of galaxies. Our method is tested with Dark Energy Spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Michael J. Smith , James E. Geach , Ryan A. Jackson , Nikhil Arora , Connor Stone , Stéphane Courteau

Context. Generative models open up the possibility to interrogate scientific data in a more data-driven way. Aims: We propose a method that uses generative models to explore hypotheses in astrophysics and other areas. We use a neural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-06 Kevin Schawinski , M. Dennis Turp , Ce Zhang

Understanding galaxy morphology evolution across cosmic time requires models that can generate realistic galaxy populations conditioned on redshift. In this work, we study efficient redshift-conditioned generative modeling for astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Tianyue Yang , Sandro Tacchella , Xiao Xue

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are frequently utilized in astronomy to construct an emulator of numerical simulations. Nevertheless, training GANs can prove to be a precarious task, as they are prone to instability and often lead to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Xiaosheng Zhao , Yuan-Sen Ting , Kangning Diao , Yi Mao

We present a masked-guided approach for a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) trained to generate and inpaint realistic radio galaxy images. The inpainting capability is particularly relevant for reconstructing incomplete…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-26 Rémi Poitevineau , Emma Tolley , Verlon Etsebeth

Understanding the nature of dark energy, the mysterious force driving the accelerated expansion of the Universe, is a major challenge of modern cosmology. The next generation of cosmological surveys, specifically designed to address this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-01 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Francois Lanusse , Rachel Mandelbaum , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) are a recent family of generative models that achieve state-of-the-art results. In order to obtain class-conditional generation, it was suggested to guide the diffusion process by gradients…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Bahjat Kawar , Roy Ganz , Michael Elad

Can we learn the physics of matter in motion directly from images and video--and trust it? Answering this question requires integrating experiments, physics-based simulation, and data across traditionally separate disciplines. Much of this…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hagen Holthusen , Kevin Linka , Ellen Kuhl

Physics-inspired Generative Models (GMs), in particular Diffusion Models (DMs) and Poisson Flow Models (PFMs), enhance Bayesian methods and promise great utility in medical imaging. This review examines the transformative role of such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Dennis Hein , Afshin Bozorgpour , Dorit Merhof , Ge Wang

Training deep learning methods on small time series datasets that also include corrupted samples is challenging. Diffusion models have shown to be effective to generate realistic and synthetic data, and correct corrupted samples through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Julian Ripper , Ousama Esbel , Rafael Fietzek , Max Mühlhäuser , Thomas Kreutz

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) and other generative methods have garnered growing interest not just for their generative properties but also for the ability to dis-entangle a low-dimensional latent variable space. However, few existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Sunay Bhat , Jeffrey Jiang , Omead Pooladzandi , Gregory Pottie

The ability to generate physically plausible ensembles of variable sources is critical to the optimization of time-domain survey cadences and the training of classification models on datasets with few to no labels. Traditional data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-19 Jorge Martínez-Palomera , Joshua S. Bloom , Ellianna S. Abrahams

With the incredible results achieved from generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) and diffusion models, generative AI (GenAI) is envisioned to yield remarkable breakthroughs in various industrial and academic domains. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

Analysis of galaxy--galaxy strong lensing systems is strongly dependent on any prior assumptions made about the appearance of the source. Here we present a method of imposing a data-driven prior / regularisation for source galaxies based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Konstantin Karchev , Noemi Anau Montel , Adam Coogan , Christoph Weniger

Image simulations are essential tools for preparing and validating the analysis of current and future wide-field optical surveys. However, the galaxy models used as the basis for these simulations are typically limited to simple parametric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Francois Lanusse , Rachel Mandelbaum , Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Chun-Liang Li , Peter Freeman , Barnabas Poczos

Constructing subsurface facies models that are geologically plausible and constrained by well facies is essential for analyzing sedimentary evolution, reservoir characterization, and flow simulation. Recent deep generative model-based…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Minghui Xu , Suihong Song , Tapan Mukerji

Medical imaging applications are highly specialized in terms of human anatomy, pathology, and imaging domains. Therefore, annotated training datasets for training deep learning applications in medical imaging not only need to be highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Arjun Krishna , Ge Wang , Klaus Mueller

Diffusion models have emerged as a popular family of deep generative models (DGMs). In the literature, it has been claimed that one class of diffusion models -- denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) -- demonstrate superior image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Rucha Deshpande , Muzaffer Özbey , Hua Li , Mark A. Anastasio , Frank J. Brooks

Diffusion generative models are currently the most popular generative models. However, their underlying modeling process is quite complex, and starting directly with the seminal paper Denoising Diffusion Probability Model (DDPM) can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Wang Zhen , Dong Yunyun

Since diffusion models (DM) and the more recent Poisson flow generative models (PFGM) are inspired by physical processes, it is reasonable to ask: Can physical processes offer additional new generative models? We show that the answer is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Ziming Liu , Di Luo , Yilun Xu , Tommi Jaakkola , Max Tegmark
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