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Diffusion-based extreme image compression methods have achieved impressive performance at extremely low bitrates. However, constrained by the iterative denoising process that starts from pure noise, these methods are limited in both…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Zhiyuan Li , Yanhui Zhou , Hao Wei , Chenyang Ge , Ajmal Mian

Purpose: Biophysical tissue models are increasingly used in the interpretation of diffusion MRI (dMRI) data, with the potential to provide specific biomarkers of brain microstructural changes. However, the general Standard Model has…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Santiago Coelho , Jose M. Pozo , Sune N. Jespersen , Derek K. Jones , Alejandro F. Frangi

In this paper, we present the Directly Denoising Diffusion Model (DDDM): a simple and generic approach for generating realistic images with few-step sampling, while multistep sampling is still preserved for better performance. DDDMs require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Dan Zhang , Jingjing Wang , Feng Luo

Many real-world machine learning tasks require outputs that satisfy hard constraints, such as physical conservation laws, structured dependencies in graphs, or column-level relationships in tabular data. Existing approaches rely either on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Pantelis Dogoulis , Fabien Bernier , Félix Fourreau , Karim Tit , Maxime Cordy

Diffusion (score-based) generative models have been widely used for modeling various types of complex data, including images, audios, and point clouds. Recently, the deep connection between forward-backward stochastic differential equations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Weitao Du , Tao Yang , He Zhang , Yuanqi Du

Diffusion policies are a powerful paradigm for robotic control, but fine-tuning them with human preferences is fundamentally challenged by the multi-step structure of the denoising process. To overcome this, we introduce a Unified Markov…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Amitesh Vatsa , Zhixian Xie , Wanxin Jin

We present a novel generative modeling method called diffusion normalizing flow based on stochastic differential equations (SDEs). The algorithm consists of two neural SDEs: a forward SDE that gradually adds noise to the data to transform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Qinsheng Zhang , Yongxin Chen

Preference optimization has emerged as an efficient alternative to online reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) for aligning text-to-image diffusion models. However, existing methods largely reduce supervision to binary pairwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Austin Wang , Jiaqi Han , Stefano Ermon , Yisong Yue

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-fidelity content but suffer from slow, iterative sampling, resulting in high latency that limits their use in interactive applications. We introduce DRiffusion, a parallel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Runsheng Bai , Chengyu Zhang , Yangdong Deng

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful tools for missing data imputation by modeling the joint distribution of observed and unobserved variables. However, existing methods, typically based on stochastic denoising diffusion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Youran Zhou , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Sunil Aryal

Transformer-based diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance at generating high-quality samples. However, our theoretical understanding of the reasons for this success remains limited. For instance, existing models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hongkang Li , Hancheng Min , Rene Vidal

Diffusion models (DMs) have become the dominant paradigm of generative modeling in a variety of domains by learning stochastic processes from noise to data. Recently, diffusion denoising bridge models (DDBMs), a new formulation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Guande He , Kaiwen Zheng , Jianfei Chen , Fan Bao , Jun Zhu

This work proposes a novel channel estimator based on diffusion models (DMs), one of the currently top-rated generative models. Contrary to related works utilizing generative priors, a lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 Benedikt Fesl , Michael Baur , Florian Strasser , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

We provide a general framework for learning diffusion bridges that transport prior to target distributions. It includes existing diffusion models for generative modeling, but also underdamped versions with degenerate diffusion matrices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Denis Blessing , Julius Berner , Lorenz Richter , Gerhard Neumann

While foundation models demonstrate impressive performance across various tasks, they remain vulnerable to adversarial inputs. Current research explores various approaches to enhance model robustness, with Diffusion Denoised Smoothing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yury Belousov , Brian Pulfer , Vitaliy Kinakh , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Semantic segmentation labels are expensive and time consuming to acquire. Hence, pretraining is commonly used to improve the label-efficiency of segmentation models. Typically, the encoder of a segmentation model is pretrained as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Emmanuel Brempong Asiedu , Simon Kornblith , Ting Chen , Niki Parmar , Matthias Minderer , Mohammad Norouzi

Diffusion models achieve remarkable generation quality but suffer from computational intensive sampling due to suboptimal step discretization. While existing works focus on optimizing denoising directions, we address the principled design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jianning Pei , Han Hu , Shuyang Gu

Trajectory prediction is a fundamental task in Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), supporting efficient motion planning and real-time traffic safety management. Diffusion models have recently demonstrated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Bingzhang Wang , Kehua Chen , Yinhai Wang

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been effective for post-training autoregressive (AR) language models, but extending these methods to diffusion language models (DLMs) is challenging due to intractable sequence-level likelihoods. Existing…

The rapid advancement of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models has enabled them to generate unprecedented results from given texts. However, as text inputs become longer, existing encoding methods like CLIP face limitations, and aligning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Luping Liu , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Zehan Wang , Chongxuan Li , Dong Xu
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