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Diffusion models have emerged as a pivotal advancement in generative models, setting new standards to the quality of the generated instances. In the current paper we aim to underscore a discrepancy between conventional training methods and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Niket Patel , Luis Salamanca , Luis Barba

The reconstruction of unsteady flow fields from limited measurements is a challenging and crucial task for many engineering applications. Machine learning models are gaining popularity for solving this problem due to their ability to learn…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Marc Amorós-Trepat , Luis Medrano-Navarro , Qiang Liu , Luca Guastoni , Nils Thuerey

Iterative refinement methods based on a denoising-inversion cycle are powerful tools for enhancing the quality and control of diffusion models. However, their effectiveness is critically limited when combined with standard Classifier-Free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Haosen Li , Wenshuo Chen , Shaofeng Liang , Lei Wang , Haozhe Jia , Yutao Yue

By formulating data samples' formation as a Markov denoising process, diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performances in a collection of tasks. Recently, many variants of diffusion models have been proposed to enable controlled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Hengtong Zhang , Tingyang Xu

Predicting molecular conformations from molecular graphs is a fundamental problem in cheminformatics and drug discovery. Recently, significant progress has been achieved with machine learning approaches, especially with deep generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Minkai Xu , Lantao Yu , Yang Song , Chence Shi , Stefano Ermon , Jian Tang

Velocity-model building is a fundamental component of seismic imaging, yet it remains a challenging inverse problem due to limited data coverage, nonlinearity, and the need to integrate heterogeneous information such as well logs. We…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Francesco Brandolin , Tariq Alkhalifah

Diffusion models have the ability to generate high quality images by denoising pure Gaussian noise images. While previous research has primarily focused on improving the control of image generation through adjusting the denoising process,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jiafeng Mao , Xueting Wang , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for various image generation and editing tasks, facilitating the synthesis of visual content in an unconditional or input-conditional manner. The core idea behind them is learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yi Huang , Jiancheng Huang , Yifan Liu , Mingfu Yan , Jiaxi Lv , Jianzhuang Liu , Wei Xiong , He Zhang , Liangliang Cao , Shifeng Chen

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have recently attracted increasing attention by showing impressive synthesis quality. DDMs are built on a diffusion process that pushes data to the noise distribution and the models learn to denoise. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jaemoo Choi , Yesom Park , Myungjoo Kang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently gained great attention in the 3D scene representation for its high-quality real-time rendering capabilities. However, when the input comprises sparse training views, 3DGS is prone to overfitting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ruocheng Wu , Haolan He , Yufei Wang , Zhihao Li , Bihan Wen

Multi-turn compositional image generation (M-CIG) is a challenging task that aims to iteratively manipulate a reference image given a modification text. While most of the existing methods for M-CIG are based on generative adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Chao Wang

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has emerged as a pivotal advancement in text-to-image latent diffusion models, establishing itself as a cornerstone technique for achieving high-quality image synthesis. However, under high guidance weights,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Cheng Jin , Zhenyu Xiao , Chutao Liu , Yuantao Gu

Diffusion models have become a leading paradigm in generative AI, with score estimation via denoising score matching as a central component. While recent theory provides strong statistical guarantees, it typically relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yinbin Han , Meisam Razaviyayn , Renyuan Xu

We propose GRAM-DIFF, a Gram-matrix-guided diffusion framework for semi-blind multiple input multiple output (MIMO) channel estimation. Recent diffusion-based estimators leverage learned generative priors to improve pilot-based channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xinyuan Wang , Krishna Narayanan

Despite recent advances in large-scale text-to-image generative models, manipulating real images with these models remains a challenging problem. The main limitations of existing editing methods are that they either fail to perform with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Vadim Titov , Madina Khalmatova , Alexandra Ivanova , Dmitry Vetrov , Aibek Alanov

Diffusion-based Deep Generative Models (DDGMs) offer state-of-the-art performance in generative modeling. Their main strength comes from their unique setup in which a model (the backward diffusion process) is trained to reverse the forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Kamil Deja , Anna Kuzina , Tomasz Trzciński , Jakub M. Tomczak

Diffusion models generate synthetic images through an iterative refinement process. However, the misalignment between the simulation-free objective and the iterative process often causes accumulated gradient error along the sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Liangyu Yuan , Yufei Huang , Mingkun Lei , Tong Zhao , Ruoyu Wang , Changxi Chi , Yiwei Wang , Chi Zhang

Training-free guided sampling in diffusion models leverages off-the-shelf pre-trained networks, such as an aesthetic evaluation model, to guide the generation process. Current training-free guided sampling algorithms obtain the guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jiachun Pan , Hanshu Yan , Jun Hao Liew , Jiashi Feng , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Safety mechanisms for diffusion and flow models have recently been developed along two distinct paths. In robot planning, control barrier functions are employed to guide generative trajectories away from obstacles at every denoising step by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mingyu Kim , Young-Heon Kim , Mijung Park

Diffusion models have recently gained prominence in offline reinforcement learning due to their ability to effectively learn high-performing, generalizable policies from static datasets. Diffusion-based planners facilitate long-horizon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Donghyeon Ki , JunHyeok Oh , Seong-Woong Shim , Byung-Jun Lee