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Semantic segmentation has made significant progress in recent years thanks to deep neural networks, but the common objective of generating a single segmentation output that accurately matches the image's content may not be suitable for…
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Microclimate models are essential for linking climate to ecological processes, yet most physically based frameworks estimate temperature independently for each spatial unit and rely on simplified representations of lateral heat exchange. As…
Diffusion models have become a standard approach for generative modeling in continuous domains, yet their application to discrete data remains challenging. We investigate why Gaussian diffusion models with the DDPM solver struggle to sample…
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