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Generative AI has achieved remarkable empirical success, but from the perspective of statistics it often remains opaque: its predictions may be accurate, yet the underlying mechanism is difficult to interpret, analyze, and trust. This book…

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Understanding how latent representations evolve during generation is a central open problem in large language model interpretability. We introduce \textbf{Dynamical Manifold Evolution Theory} (DMET), a phenomenological framework that models…

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In this paper, we treat the image generation task using an autoencoder, a representative latent model. Unlike many studies regularizing the latent variable's distribution by assuming a manually specified prior, we approach the image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Jaeyoung Yoo , Hojun Lee , Nojun Kwak

Text-conditioned image generation models have recently achieved astonishing results in image quality and text alignment and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. Since they are highly data-driven, relying on…

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The field of neural rendering has witnessed significant progress with advancements in generative models and differentiable rendering techniques. Though 2D diffusion has achieved success, a unified 3D diffusion pipeline remains unsettled.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yushi Lan , Fangzhou Hong , Shangchen Zhou , Shuai Yang , Xuyi Meng , Yongwei Chen , Zhaoyang Lyu , Bo Dai , Xingang Pan , Chen Change Loy

Stable diffusion models represent the state-of-the-art in data synthesis across diverse domains and hold transformative potential for applications in science and engineering, e.g., by facilitating the discovery of novel solutions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Stefano Zampini , Jacob K. Christopher , Luca Oneto , Davide Anguita , Ferdinando Fioretto

Recent advances in recording technology have allowed neuroscientists to monitor activity from thousands of neurons simultaneously. Latent variable models are increasingly valuable for distilling these recordings into compact and…

Denoising Diffusion models are gaining increasing popularity in the field of generative modeling for several reasons, including the simple and stable training, the excellent generative quality, and the solid probabilistic foundation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Andrea Asperti , Davide Evangelista , Samuele Marro , Fabio Merizzi

Textile pattern generation (TPG) aims to synthesize fine-grained textile pattern images based on given clothing images. Although previous studies have not explicitly investigated TPG, existing image-to-image models appear to be natural…

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Automatic layout generation that can synthesize high-quality layouts is an important tool for graphic design in many applications. Though existing methods based on generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and…

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Self-supervised representation learning has gained increasing attention for strong generalization ability without relying on paired datasets. However, it has not been explored sufficiently for facial representation. Self-supervised facial…

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In this paper, we show that the performance of a learnt generative model is closely related to the model's ability to accurately represent the inferred \textbf{latent data distribution}, i.e. its topology and structural properties. We…

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Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in generation tasks. Nevertheless, explaining the diffusion process remains challenging due to it being a sequence of denoising noisy images that are difficult for experts to…

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Modeling the time-dependent evolution of electron density is essential for understanding quantum mechanical behaviors of condensed matter and enabling predictive simulations in spectroscopy, photochemistry, and ultrafast science. Yet, while…

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The latest developments in Artificial Intelligence include diffusion generative models, quite popular tools which can produce original images both unconditionally and, in some cases, conditioned by some inputs provided by the user. Apart…

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As synthetic data proliferates across the Internet, it is often reused to train successive generations of generative models. This creates a ``self-consuming loop" that can lead to training instability or \textit{model collapse}. Common…

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Media design layer generation enables the creation of fully editable, layered design documents such as posters, flyers, and logos using only natural language prompts. Existing methods either restrict outputs to a fixed number of layers or…

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Hypergraph data, which capture multi-way interactions among entities, are increasingly prevalent in the big data era. Generating new hyperlinks from an observed, usually high-dimensional hypergraph is an important yet challenging task with…

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We address the problem of compressed sensing using a deep generative prior model and consider both linear and learned nonlinear sensing mechanisms, where the nonlinear one involves either a fully connected neural network or a convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Vinayak Killedar , Praveen Kumar Pokala , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

We present a novel method for exemplar-based image translation, called matching interleaved diffusion models (MIDMs). Most existing methods for this task were formulated as GAN-based matching-then-generation framework. However, in this…

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