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Consider the communication-constrained problem of nonparametric function estimation, in which each distributed terminal holds multiple i.i.d. samples. Under certain regularity assumptions, we characterize the minimax optimal rates for all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Deheng Yuan , Tao Guo , Zhongyi Huang

Preference alignment aims to guide generative models by learning from comparisons between preferred and non-preferred samples. In practice, most existing approaches rely on preference pairs constructed from model-generated images. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Weiyan Chen , Weijian Deng , Yao Xiao , Weijie Tu , ZiYi Dong , Ibrahim Radwan , Liang Lin , Pengxu Wei

With the success of image generation, generative diffusion models are increasingly adopted for discriminative tasks, as pixel generation provides a unified perception interface. However, directly repurposing the generative denoising process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ziqi Pang , Xin Xu , Yu-Xiong Wang

Anomaly detection in tabular data remains challenging due to complex feature interactions and the scarcity of anomalous examples. Denoising autoencoders rely on fixed-magnitude noise, limiting adaptability to diverse data distributions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Modern alignment pipelines are increasingly replacing expensive human preference labels with evaluations from large language models (LLM-as-Judge). However, AI labels can be systematically biased compared to high-quality human feedback…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Xintao Xia , Zhiqiu Xia , Linjun Zhang , Zhanrui Cai

Denoising Diffusion Models (DDMs) have become a popular tool for generating high-quality samples from complex data distributions. These models are able to capture sophisticated patterns and structures in the data, and can generate samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Emanuele Aiello , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

Diffusion probabilistic models are traditionally used to generate colors at fixed pixel positions in 2D images. Building on this, we extend diffusion models to point cloud semantic segmentation, where point positions also remain fixed, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yong He , Hongshan Yu , Mingtao Feng , Tongjia Chen , Zechuan Li , Anwaar Ulhaq , Saeed Anwar , Ajmal Saeed Mian

Based on the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM), medical image segmentation can be described as a conditional image generation task, which allows to compute pixel-wise uncertainty maps of the segmentation and allows an implicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Xutao Guo , Yanwu Yang , Chenfei Ye , Shang Lu , Yang Xiang , Ting Ma

In this work, we focus on the alignment problem of diffusion models with a continuous reward function, which represents specific objectives for downstream tasks, such as increasing darkness or improving the aesthetics of images. The central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Zhiwei Tang , Jiangweizhi Peng , Jiasheng Tang , Mingyi Hong , Fan Wang , Tsung-Hui Chang

As Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities learned from vast corpora, concerns regarding data privacy and safety are receiving increasing attention. LLM unlearning, which aims to remove the influence of specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kai Qin , Jiaqi Wu , Jianxiang He , Haoyuan Sun , Yifei Zhao , Bin Liang , Yongzhe Chang , Tiantian Zhang , Houde Liu

The application of diffusion models in 3D LiDAR scene completion is limited due to diffusion's slow sampling speed. Score distillation accelerates diffusion sampling but with performance degradation, while post-training with direct policy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 An Zhao , Shengyuan Zhang , Ling Yang , Zejian Li , Jiale Wu , Haoran Xu , AnYang Wei , Perry Pengyun GU , Lingyun Sun

We present a concise, self-contained derivation of diffusion-based generative models. Starting from basic properties of Gaussian distributions (densities, quadratic expectations, re-parameterisation, products, and KL divergences), we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sepehr Maleki , Negar Pourmoazemi

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) are a very popular class of deep generative model that have been successfully applied to a diverse range of problems including image and video generation, protein and material synthesis,…

Many algorithms for aligning LLMs with human preferences assume that human preferences are binary and deterministic. However, human preferences can vary across individuals, and therefore should be represented distributionally. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hiroki Furuta , Kuang-Huei Lee , Shixiang Shane Gu , Yutaka Matsuo , Aleksandra Faust , Heiga Zen , Izzeddin Gur

Diffusion models demonstrate superior performance in capturing complex distributions from large-scale datasets, providing a promising solution for quadrupedal locomotion control. However, the robustness of the diffusion planner is…

In this research, we propose a novel denoising diffusion model based on shortest-path modeling that optimizes residual propagation to enhance both denoising efficiency and quality. Drawing on Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIM) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ping Chen , Xingpeng Zhang , Zhaoxiang Liu , Huan Hu , Xiang Liu , Kai Wang , Min Wang , Yanlin Qian , Shiguo Lian

Denoising Probabilistic Models (DPMs) represent an emerging domain of generative models that excel in generating diverse and high-quality images. However, most current training methods for DPMs often neglect the correlation between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Viet Nguyen , Giang Vu , Tung Nguyen Thanh , Khoat Than , Toan Tran

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is successful for alignment in LLMs but still faces challenges in text-to-image generation. Existing studies are confined to denoising diffusion models while overlooking flow-matching, and suffer from an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Kesong Li , Yixuan Xu , Kuo-kun Tseng , Weiyi Lu , Kan Liu , Tao Lan

Higher-order ODE solvers have become a standard tool for accelerating diffusion probabilistic model (DPM) sampling, motivating the widespread view that first-order methods are inherently slower and that increasing discretization order is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-01 Yuchen Jiao , Na Li , Changxiao Cai , Gen Li

Diffusion models, such as diffusion policy, have achieved state-of-the-art results in robotic manipulation by imitating expert demonstrations. While diffusion models were originally developed for vision tasks like image and video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mateo Clemente , Leo Brunswic , Rui Heng Yang , Xuan Zhao , Yasser Khalil , Haoyu Lei , Amir Rasouli , Yinchuan Li