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In image processing, solving inverse problems is the task of finding plausible reconstructions of an image that was corrupted by some (usually known) degradation operator. Commonly, this process is done using a generative image model that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Idan Achituve , Hai Victor Habi , Amir Rosenfeld , Arnon Netzer , Idit Diamant , Ethan Fetaya

The inverse design of metasurfaces faces inherent challenges due to the nonlinear and highly complex relationship between geometric configurations and their electromagnetic behavior. Traditional optimization approaches often suffer from…

Diffusion models provide a powerful way to incorporate complex prior information for solving inverse problems. However, existing methods struggle to correctly incorporate guidance from conflicting signals in the prior and measurement, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shaorong Zhang , Rob Brekelmans , Yunshu Wu , Greg Ver Steeg

Sampling from the posterior is a key technical problem in Bayesian statistics. Rigorous guarantees are difficult to obtain for Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms of common use. In this paper, we study an alternative class of algorithms…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Andrea Montanari , Yuchen Wu

Using diffusion priors to solve inverse problems in imaging have significantly matured over the years. In this chapter, we review the various different approaches that were proposed over the years. We categorize the approaches into the more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hyungjin Chung , Jeongsol Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Deconvolution of astronomical images is a key aspect of recovering the intrinsic properties of celestial objects, especially when considering ground-based observations. This paper explores the use of diffusion models (DMs) and the Diffusion…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Alessio Spagnoletti , Alexandre Boucaud , Marc Huertas-Company , Wassim Kabalan , Biswajit Biswas

We study posterior sampling for inverse problems in discrete state spaces using discrete diffusion models as generative priors. While continuous diffusion models have become widely used for inverse problems, their discrete counterparts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chaitanya Amballa , Sattwik Basu , Jorge Vančo Sampedro , Romit Roy Choudhury

Pretrained diffusion models (DMs) have recently been popularly used in solving inverse problems (IPs). The existing methods mostly interleave iterative steps in the reverse diffusion process and iterative steps to bring the iterates closer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Hengkang Wang , Xu Zhang , Taihui Li , Yuxiang Wan , Tiancong Chen , Ju Sun

Diffusion Posterior Sampling (DPS) provides a principled Bayesian approach to inverse problems by sampling from $p(x_0 \mid y)$. While posterior sampling is valuable for capturing uncertainty and multi-modality, many classical and practical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shaorong Zhang , Rob Brekelmans , Greg Ver Steeg

Purpose: The Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm (ULA) in combination with diffusion models can generate high quality MRI reconstructions with uncertainty estimation from highly undersampled k-space data. However, sampling methods such as…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Moritz Blumenthal , Tina Holliber , Jonathan I. Tamir , Martin Uecker

Ill-posed linear inverse problems arise frequently in various applications, from computational photography to medical imaging. A recent line of research exploits Bayesian inference with informative priors to handle the ill-posedness of such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-27 Gabriel Cardoso , Yazid Janati El Idrissi , Sylvain Le Corff , Eric Moulines

Solving inverse problems in imaging requires models that support efficient inference, uncertainty quantification, and principled probabilistic reasoning. Energy-Based Models (EBMs), with their interpretable energy landscapes and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Jyothi Rikhab Chand , Mathews Jacob

Restoring degraded music signals is essential to enhance audio quality for downstream music manipulation. Recent diffusion-based music restoration methods have demonstrated impressive performance, and among them, diffusion posterior…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Koichi Saito , Naoki Murata , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Marco A. Martínez-Ramirez , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Yuki Mitsufuji

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative tools with applications in computer vision and scientific machine learning (SciML), where they have been used to solve large-scale probabilistic inverse problems. Traditionally, these…

Diffusion Inverse Solvers (DIS) are designed to sample from the conditional distribution $p_{\theta}(X_0|y)$, with a predefined diffusion model $p_{\theta}(X_0)$, an operator $f(\cdot)$, and a measurement $y=f(x'_0)$ derived from an unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Tongda Xu , Ziran Zhu , Jian Li , Dailan He , Yuanyuan Wang , Ming Sun , Ling Li , Hongwei Qin , Yan Wang , Jingjing Liu , Ya-Qin Zhang

Inverse problems describe the process of estimating the causal factors from a set of measurements or data. Mapping of often incomplete or degraded data to parameters is ill-posed, thus data-driven iterative solutions are required, for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Weitong Zhang , Chengqi Zang , Liu Li , Sarah Cechnicka , Cheng Ouyang , Bernhard Kainz

Diffusion models have become a popular approach for image generation and reconstruction due to their numerous advantages. However, most diffusion-based inverse problem-solving methods only deal with 2D images, and even recently published 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Suhyeon Lee , Hyungjin Chung , Minyoung Park , Jonghyuk Park , Wi-Sun Ryu , Jong Chul Ye

We describe a new MCMC method optimized for the sampling of probability measures on Hilbert space which have a density with respect to a Gaussian; such measures arise in the Bayesian approach to inverse problems, and in conditioned…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-04 Michela Ottobre , Natesh S. Pillai , Frank J. Pinski , Andrew M. Stuart

This paper presents an improved implicit sampling method for hierarchical Bayesian inverse problems. A widely used approach for sampling posterior distribution is based on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). However, the samples generated by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Xiaoyan Song , Lijian Jiang , Guanghui Zheng

The success of diffusion models has driven interest in performing conditional sampling via training-free guidance of the denoising process to solve image restoration and other inverse problems. A popular class of methods, based on Diffusion…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-17 Gregory Bellchambers