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Diffusion models deliver state-of-the-art generative performance across diverse modalities but remain computationally expensive due to their inherently iterative sampling process. Existing training-free acceleration methods typically…

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Diffusion and flow-based generative models have shown strong potential for image restoration. However, image denoising under unknown and varying noise conditions remains challenging, because the learned vector fields may become inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jigang Duan , Genwei Ma , Xu Jiang , Wenfeng Xu , Ping Yang , Xing Zhao

Diffusion and flow matching models generate high-fidelity data by simulating paths defined by Ordinary or Stochastic Differential Equations (ODEs/SDEs), starting from a tractable prior distribution. The probability flow ODE formulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Liangyu Yuan , Ruoyu Wang , Tong Zhao , Dingwen Fu , Mingkun Lei , Beier Zhu , Chi Zhang

This paper outlines an end-to-end optimized lossy image compression framework using diffusion generative models. The approach relies on the transform coding paradigm, where an image is mapped into a latent space for entropy coding and, from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-03 Ruihan Yang , Stephan Mandt

Classifier-free guided diffusion models have recently been shown to be highly effective at high-resolution image generation, and they have been widely used in large-scale diffusion frameworks including DALLE-2, Stable Diffusion and Imagen.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Chenlin Meng , Robin Rombach , Ruiqi Gao , Diederik P. Kingma , Stefano Ermon , Jonathan Ho , Tim Salimans

Normalizing Flows (NFs) learn invertible mappings between the data and a Gaussian distribution. Prior works usually suffer from two limitations. First, they add random noise to training samples or VAE latents as data augmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Qinyu Zhao , Guangting Zheng , Tao Yang , Rui Zhu , Xingjian Leng , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng

Diffusion models have recently dominated image synthesis tasks. However, the iterative denoising process is expensive in computations at inference time, making diffusion models less practical for low-latency and scalable real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yefei He , Luping Liu , Jing Liu , Weijia Wu , Hong Zhou , Bohan Zhuang

Diffusion models have recently demonstrated notable success in solving inverse problems. However, current diffusion model-based solutions typically require a large number of function evaluations (NFEs) to generate high-quality images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Tianyu Chen , Zhendong Wang , Mingyuan Zhou

Diffusion Policies have become widely used in Imitation Learning, offering several appealing properties, such as generating multimodal and discontinuous behavior. As models are becoming larger to capture more complex capabilities, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Moritz Reuss , Jyothish Pari , Pulkit Agrawal , Rudolf Lioutikov

Although diffusion model has shown great potential for generating higher quality images than GANs, slow sampling speed hinders its wide application in practice. Progressive distillation is thus proposed for fast sampling by progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Wujie Sun , Defang Chen , Can Wang , Deshi Ye , Yan Feng , Chun Chen

Neural posterior estimation (NPE), a simulation-based computational approach for Bayesian inference, has shown great success in approximating complex posterior distributions. Existing NPE methods typically rely on normalizing flows, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-14 Tianyu Chen , Vansh Bansal , James G. Scott

Existing approaches towards anomaly detection~(AD) often rely on a substantial amount of anomaly-free data to train representation and density models. However, large anomaly-free datasets may not always be available before the inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Jingyi Liao , Xun Xu , Manh Cuong Nguyen , Adam Goodge , Chuan Sheng Foo

We presented an efficient algorithm, fast adaptive flat-histogram ensemble (FAFE), to estimate the density of states (DOS) and to enhance sampling in large systems. FAFE calculates the means of an arbitrary extensive variable $U$ in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-13 Xin Zhou , Yi Jiang

Conditional Diffusion Models are powerful surrogates for emulating complex spatiotemporal dynamics, yet they often fail to match the accuracy of deterministic neural emulators for high-precision tasks. In this work, we address two critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Constantin Le Cleï , Nils Thuerey , Xiaoxiang Zhu

An AI-powered quality engineering platform uses artificial intelligence to boost software quality assessments through automated defect prediction and optimized performance alongside improved feature extraction. Existing models result in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Seshu Babu Barma , Mohanakrishnan Hariharan , Satish Arvapalli

Diffusion models (DMs) excel in image generation but suffer from slow inference and training-inference discrepancies. Although gradient-based solvers for DMs accelerate denoising inference, they often lack theoretical foundations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Shigui Li , Wei Chen , Delu Zeng

The class-conditional image generation based on diffusion models is renowned for generating high-quality and diverse images. However, most prior efforts focus on generating images for general categories, e.g., 1000 classes in ImageNet-1k. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ziying Pan , Kun Wang , Gang Li , Feihong He , Yongxuan Lai

Diffusion models have achieved great success in image synthesis through iterative noise estimation using deep neural networks. However, the slow inference, high memory consumption, and computation intensity of the noise estimation model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Xiuyu Li , Yijiang Liu , Long Lian , Huanrui Yang , Zhen Dong , Daniel Kang , Shanghang Zhang , Kurt Keutzer

Diffusion-based generative image compression has demonstrated remarkable potential for achieving realistic reconstruction at ultra-low bitrates. The key to unlocking this potential lies in making the entire compression process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xihua Sheng , Lingyu Zhu , Tianyu Zhang , Dong Liu , Shiqi Wang , Jing Wang

Recent convolutional neural network (CNN) development continues to advance the state-of-the-art model accuracy for various applications. However, the enhanced accuracy comes at the cost of substantial memory bandwidth and storage…

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