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Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have achieved impressive performance on various generation tasks. By modeling the reverse process of gradually diffusing the data distribution into a Gaussian distribution, generating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhaoyang Lyu , Xudong XU , Ceyuan Yang , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

The diffusion model has recently emerged as a potent approach in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable performances in the field of generative artificial intelligence. Capable of producing high-quality synthetic images, diffusion models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Abdullah , Tao Huang , Ickjai Lee , Euijoon Ahn

Diffusion models are powerful generative models but suffer from slow sampling, often taking 1000 sequential denoising steps for one sample. As a result, considerable efforts have been directed toward reducing the number of denoising steps,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Andy Shih , Suneel Belkhale , Stefano Ermon , Dorsa Sadigh , Nima Anari

Image synthesis has seen significant advancements with the advent of diffusion-based generative models like Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and text-to-image diffusion models. Despite their efficacy, there is a dearth of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Ruipeng Ma , Jinhao Duan , Fei Kong , Xiaoshuang Shi , Kaidi Xu

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) is able to make flexible conditional image generation from prior noise to real data, by introducing an independent noise-aware classifier to provide conditional gradient guidance at each time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Shengming Li , Guangcong Zheng , Hui Wang , Taiping Yao , Yang Chen , Shoudong Ding , Xi Li

In supervised learning for image denoising, usually the paired clean images and noisy images are collected or synthesised to train a denoising model. L2 norm loss or other distance functions are used as the objective function for training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yutong Xie , Minne Yuan , Bin Dong , Quanzheng Li

Recently, research on denoising diffusion models has expanded its application to the field of image restoration. Traditional diffusion-based image restoration methods utilize degraded images as conditional input to effectively guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zhenning Shi , Haoshuai Zheng , Chen Xu , Changsheng Dong , Bin Pan , Xueshuo Xie , Along He , Tao Li , Huazhu Fu

Efficient text-to-image generation remains a challenging task due to the high computational costs associated with the multi-step sampling in diffusion models. Although distillation of pre-trained diffusion models has been successful in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jeeyung Kim , Ze Wang , Qiang Qiu

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) are generative models showing competitive performance in various domains, including image synthesis and 3D point cloud generation. Sampling from pre-trained DPMs involves multiple neural function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Vinh Tong , Hoang Trung-Dung , Anji Liu , Guy Van den Broeck , Mathias Niepert

In this work, we address the challenge of multi-task image generation with limited data for denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM), a class of generative models that produce high-quality images by reversing a noisy diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Delaram Pirhayatifard , Mohammad Taha Toghani , Guha Balakrishnan , César A. Uribe

One of the main drawback of diffusion models is the slow inference time for image generation. Among the most successful approaches to addressing this problem are distillation methods. However, these methods require considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Senmao Li , Taihang Hu , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Tao Liu , Linxuan Li , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jian Yang

Text-to-image diffusion inference typically follows synchronized schedules, where the numerical integrator advances the latent state to the same timestep at which the denoiser is conditioned. We propose an asynchronous inference mechanism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Longhuan Xu , Feng Yin , Cunjian Chen

We empirically study the effect of noise scheduling strategies for denoising diffusion generative models. There are three findings: (1) the noise scheduling is crucial for the performance, and the optimal one depends on the task (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ting Chen

Diffusion models have achieved impressive results in generating high-quality images. Yet, they often struggle to faithfully align the generated images with the input prompts. This limitation is associated with synchronous denoising, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zijing Hu , Yunze Tong , Fengda Zhang , Junkun Yuan , Jun Xiao , Kun Kuang

Latent Diffusion models (LDMs) have achieved remarkable results in synthesizing high-resolution images. However, the iterative sampling process is computationally intensive and leads to slow generation. Inspired by Consistency Models (song…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Simian Luo , Yiqin Tan , Longbo Huang , Jian Li , Hang Zhao

Denoising is intuitively related to projection. Indeed, under the manifold hypothesis, adding random noise is approximately equivalent to orthogonal perturbation. Hence, learning to denoise is approximately learning to project. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Frank Permenter , Chenyang Yuan

Denoising diffusion models have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in many image-generation tasks. They do, however, require a large amount of computational resources. This limits their application to medical tasks, where we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Florentin Bieder , Julia Wolleb , Alicia Durrer , Robin Sandkühler , Philippe C. Cattin

The slow inference process of image diffusion models significantly degrades interactive user experiences. To address this, we introduce Diffusion Preview, a novel paradigm employing rapid, low-step sampling to generate preliminary outputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fu-Yun Wang , Hao Zhou , Liangzhe Yuan , Sanghyun Woo , Boqing Gong , Bohyung Han , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Han Zhang , Yukun Zhu , Ting Liu , Long Zhao

We introduce Efficient Motion Diffusion Model (EMDM) for fast and high-quality human motion generation. Current state-of-the-art generative diffusion models have produced impressive results but struggle to achieve fast generation without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Wenyang Zhou , Zhiyang Dou , Zeyu Cao , Zhouyingcheng Liao , Jingbo Wang , Wenjia Wang , Yuan Liu , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang , Lingjie Liu

Inverse problems generally require a regularizer or prior for a good solution. A recent trend is to train a convolutional net to denoise images, and use this net as a prior when solving the inverse problem. Several proposals depend on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Kyle Luther , H. Sebastian Seung