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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

Blind super-resolution methods based on stable diffusion showcase formidable generative capabilities in reconstructing clear high-resolution images with intricate details from low-resolution inputs. However, their practical applicability is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Rui Xie , Chen Zhao , Kai Zhang , Zhenyu Zhang , Jun Zhou , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

While originally designed for image generation, diffusion models have recently shown to provide excellent pretrained feature representations for semantic segmentation. Intrigued by this result, we set out to explore how well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Rui Gong , Martin Danelljan , Han Sun , Julio Delgado Mangas , Luc Van Gool

Generative diffusion models, famous for their performance in image generation, are popular in various cross-domain applications. However, their use in the communication community has been mostly limited to auxiliary tasks like data modeling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ruihuai Liang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Bin Guo , Xuelin Cao , Mérouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Chau Yuen

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

Image enhancement finds wide-ranging applications in real-world scenarios due to complex environments and the inherent limitations of imaging devices. Recent diffusion-based methods yield promising outcomes but necessitate prolonged and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yixuan Zhu , Haolin Wang , Ao Li , Wenliang Zhao , Yansong Tang , Jingxuan Niu , Lei Chen , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Score-based diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance for inverse problems, but their practical deployment is hindered by long inference times and cumbersome hyperparameter tuning. While pretrained diffusion models can be reused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Julio Oscanoa , Irmak Sivgin , Cagan Alkan , Daniel Ennis , John Pauly , Mert Pilanci , Shreyas Vasanawala

Diffusion models have shown remarkable progress in various generative tasks such as image and video generation. This paper studies the problem of leveraging pretrained diffusion models for performing discriminative tasks. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yinqi Li , Hong Chang , Ruibing Hou , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

We introduce Diffusion Active Learning, a novel approach that combines generative diffusion modeling with data-driven sequential experimental design to adaptively acquire data for inverse problems. Although broadly applicable, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Luis Barba , Johannes Kirschner , Tomas Aidukas , Manuel Guizar-Sicairos , Benjamín Béjar

Diffusion models, a specific type of generative model, have achieved unprecedented performance in recent years and consistently produce high-quality synthetic samples. A critical prerequisite for their notable success lies in the presence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yidong Ouyang , Liyan Xie , Hongyuan Zha , Guang Cheng

Denoising diffusion models have driven significant progress in the field of Bayesian inverse problems. Recent approaches use pre-trained diffusion models as priors to solve a wide range of such problems, only leveraging inference-time…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-06 Yazid Janati , Badr Moufad , Mehdi Abou El Qassime , Alain Durmus , Eric Moulines , Jimmy Olsson

This tutorial provides an in-depth guide on inference-time guidance and alignment methods for optimizing downstream reward functions in diffusion models. While diffusion models are renowned for their generative modeling capabilities,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Masatoshi Uehara , Yulai Zhao , Chenyu Wang , Xiner Li , Aviv Regev , Sergey Levine , Tommaso Biancalani

Diffusion-based super-resolution (SR) models have recently garnered significant attention due to their potent restoration capabilities. But conventional diffusion models perform noise sampling from a single distribution, constraining their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Chengcheng Wang , Zhiwei Hao , Yehui Tang , Jianyuan Guo , Yujie Yang , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang

Diffusion models demonstrate remarkable capabilities in capturing complex data distributions and have achieved compelling results in many generative tasks. While they have recently been extended to dense prediction tasks such as depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haorui Ji , Taojun Lin , Hongdong Li

Diffusion models have shown a great ability at bridging the performance gap between predictive and generative approaches for speech enhancement. We have shown that they may even outperform their predictive counterparts for non-additive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Timo Gerkmann

Diffusion and flow-based models have enabled significant progress in generation tasks across various modalities and have recently found applications in predictive learning. However, unlike typical generation tasks that encourage sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yu Zhang , Xingzhuo Guo , Haoran Xu , Jialong Wu , Mingsheng Long

Purpose: Stimulated echo acquisition mode (STEAM) diffusion MRI can be advantageous over pulsed-gradient spin-echo (PGSE) for diffusion times that are long compared to $\ttwo$. It is important therefore for biomedical diffusion imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-06-13 Daniel C. Alexander , Tim B. Dyrby

Conditional diffusion models have exhibited superior performance in high-fidelity text-guided visual generation and editing. Nevertheless, prevailing text-guided visual diffusion models primarily focus on incorporating text-visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ling Yang , Zhilong Zhang , Zhaochen Yu , Jingwei Liu , Minkai Xu , Stefano Ermon , Bin Cui

Diffusion models are highly regarded for their controllability and the diversity of images they generate. However, class-conditional generation methods based on diffusion models often focus on more common categories. In large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Kun Wang , Donglin Di , Tonghua Su , Lei Fan

Score-based diffusion models learn to reverse a stochastic differential equation that maps data to noise. However, for complex tasks, numerical error can compound and result in highly unnatural samples. Previous work mitigates this drift…

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