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Controllable image generation is fundamental to the success of modern generative AI, yet it faces a critical trade-off between semantic fidelity and inference speed. The RemEdit diffusion-based framework addresses this trade-off with two…

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We introduce a new intrinsic measure of local curvature on point-cloud data called diffusion curvature. Our measure uses the framework of diffusion maps, including the data diffusion operator, to structure point cloud data and define local…

When generalizing schemes for real-valued data approximation or decomposition to data living in Riemannian manifolds, tangent space-based schemes are very attractive for the simple reason that these spaces are linear. An open challenge is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Willem Diepeveen , Joyce Chew , Deanna Needell

Diffusion-based manifold learning methods have proven useful in representation learning and dimensionality reduction of modern high dimensional, high throughput, noisy datasets. Such datasets are especially present in fields like biology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Guillaume Huguet , Alexander Tong , Edward De Brouwer , Yanlei Zhang , Guy Wolf , Ian Adelstein , Smita Krishnaswamy

We introduce a framework for designing efficient diffusion models for $d$-dimensional symmetric-space Riemannian manifolds, including the torus, sphere, special orthogonal group and unitary group. Existing manifold diffusion models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Oren Mangoubi , Neil He , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

We study the recovery of geometric structure from data generated by convolving the uniform measure on a smooth compact submanifold $M\subset\mathbb{R}^D$ with ambient Gaussian noise. Our main result is that several fundamental Riemannian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Junhao Chen , Ruowei Li , Zhigang Yao

Estimating means on Riemannian manifolds is generally computationally expensive because the Riemannian distance function is not known in closed-form for most manifolds. To overcome this, we show that Riemannian diffusion means can be…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-02-19 Frederik Möbius Rygaard , Steen Markvorsen , Søren Hauberg , Stefan Sommer

Modern generative modeling methods have demonstrated strong performance in learning complex data distributions from clean samples. In many scientific and imaging applications, however, clean samples are unavailable, and only noisy or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Willem Diepeveen , Oscar Leong

Generative models realized with machine learning techniques are powerful tools to infer complex and unknown data distributions from a finite number of training samples in order to produce new synthetic data. Diffusion models are an emerging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Marco Parigi , Stefano Martina , Filippo Caruso

Deep generative models learn a mapping from a low dimensional latent space to a high-dimensional data space. Under certain regularity conditions, these models parameterize nonlinear manifolds in the data space. In this paper, we investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Hang Shao , Abhishek Kumar , P. Thomas Fletcher

This report concerns the problem of dimensionality reduction through information geometric methods on statistical manifolds. While there has been considerable work recently presented regarding dimensionality reduction for the purposes of…

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We introduce a novel diffusion-based spectral algorithm to tackle regression analysis on high-dimensional data, particularly data embedded within lower-dimensional manifolds. Traditional spectral algorithms often fall short in such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-21 Weichun Xia , Jiaxin Jiang , Lei Shi

Diffusion models have had a profound impact on many application areas, including those where data are intrinsically infinite-dimensional, such as images or time series. The standard approach is first to discretize and then to apply…

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We address the problem of data augmentation in a rotating turbulence set-up, a paradigmatic challenge in geophysical applications. The goal is to reconstruct information in two-dimensional (2D) cuts of the three-dimensional flow fields,…

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

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Do contemporary diffusion models preserve the class geometry of hyperspherical data? Standard diffusion models rely on isotropic Gaussian noise in the forward process, inherently favoring Euclidean spaces. However, many real-world problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Muskan Dosi , Chiranjeev Chiranjeev , Kartik Thakral , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

There has been an emerging trend in non-Euclidean statistical analysis of aiming to recover a low dimensional structure, namely a manifold, underlying the high dimensional data. Recovering the manifold requires the noise to be of certain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-11 Zhigang Yao , Yuqing Xia

Generating high-quality 3D objects from textual descriptions remains a challenging problem due to computational cost, the scarcity of 3D data, and complex 3D representations. We introduce Geometry Image Diffusion (GIMDiffusion), a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Slava Elizarov , Ciara Rowles , Simon Donné

Deep generative models are universal tools for learning data distributions on high dimensional data spaces via a mapping to lower dimensional latent spaces. We provide a study of latent space geometries and extend and build upon previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Max F. Frenzel , Bogdan Teleaga , Asahi Ushio

Diffusion models are a leading paradigm for data generation, but training-free editing typically re-runs the full denoising trajectory for every edit strength, making iterative refinement expensive. To address this issue, we instead edit…

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