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Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have achieved considerable success in generation tasks. As sampling from DPMs is equivalent to solving diffusion SDE or ODE which is time-consuming, numerous fast sampling methods built upon improved…

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Reconstructing 3D objects from extremely sparse views is a long-standing and challenging problem. While recent techniques employ image diffusion models for generating plausible images at novel viewpoints or for distilling pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zi-Xin Zou , Weihao Cheng , Yan-Pei Cao , Shi-Sheng Huang , Ying Shan , Song-Hai Zhang

Generative models, including diffusion and flow-based models, often exhibit systematic biases that degrade sample quality, particularly in high-dimensional settings. We revisit refinement methods and show that effective bias correction can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xin Peng , Ang Gao

We present a new method for making diffusion models faster to sample. The method distills many-step diffusion models into few-step models by matching conditional expectations of the clean data given noisy data along the sampling trajectory.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Tim Salimans , Thomas Mensink , Jonathan Heek , Emiel Hoogeboom

Adapting a pretrained diffusion model to new objectives at inference time remains an open problem in generative modeling. Existing steering methods suffer from inaccurate value estimation, especially at high noise levels, which biases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Vineet Jain , Kusha Sareen , Mohammad Pedramfar , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

In this paper, we analyze the complexity of natural parallelizations of Delaunay refinement methods for mesh generation. The parallelizations employ a simple strategy: at each iteration, they choose a set of ``independent'' points to insert…

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Diffusion models have become a central tool in deep generative modeling, but standard formulations rely on a single network and a single diffusion schedule to transform a simple prior, typically a standard normal distribution, into the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-29 Takuro Kutsuna

We consider a new class of Parareal algorithms, which use ideas from localized reduced basis methods to construct the coarse solver from spectral approximations of the transfer operators mapping initial values for a given time interval to…

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Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have been increasingly used in audio processing tasks, including speech super-resolution (SR), which aims to restore high-frequency content given low-resolution speech utterances. This is commonly achieved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Chin-Yun Yu , Sung-Lin Yeh , György Fazekas , Hao Tang

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown remarkable performance in high-resolution image synthesis, but their sampling efficiency is still to be desired due to the typically large number of sampling steps. Recent advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Shuchen Xue , Zhaoqiang Liu , Fei Chen , Shifeng Zhang , Tianyang Hu , Enze Xie , Zhenguo Li

Diffusion models have found widespread adoption in various areas. However, their sampling process is slow because it requires hundreds to thousands of network evaluations to emulate a continuous process defined by differential equations. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Hongkai Zheng , Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anima Anandkumar

Distillation addresses the slow sampling problem in diffusion models by creating models with smaller size or fewer steps that approximate the behavior of high-step teachers. In this work, we propose a reinforcement learning based…

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This thesis presents Regenerative Rejection Sampling (RRS), a novel approximate sampling algorithm inspired by classical Rejection Sampling and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. The method constructs a continuous-time regenerative process…

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Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have made significant strides in high-quality image generation. However, the multi-step denoising process often results in considerable computational overhead, impeding deployment on resource-constrained…

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Diffusion-based real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) methods have demonstrated impressive performance.To achieve efficient Real-ISR, many works employ Variational Score Distillation (VSD) to distill pre-trained stable-diffusion (SD)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Tianyi Zhang , Zheng-Peng Duan , Peng-Tao Jiang , Bo Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have emerged as a powerful family of generative models that can yield high-fidelity samples and competitive log-likelihoods across a range of domains, including image and speech synthesis.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Daniel Watson , Jonathan Ho , Mohammad Norouzi , William Chan

We propose Diffusion-Sharpening, a fine-tuning approach that enhances downstream alignment by optimizing sampling trajectories. Existing RL-based fine-tuning methods focus on single training timesteps and neglect trajectory-level alignment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ye Tian , Ling Yang , Xinchen Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Mengdi Wang , Bin Cui

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

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in visual content generation but remain challenging to deploy due to their high computational cost during inference. This computational burden primarily arises from the quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ye Tian , Xin Xia , Yuxi Ren , Shanchuan Lin , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao , Yunhai Tong , Ling Yang , Bin Cui

Parallelization techniques have become ubiquitous for accelerating inference and training of deep neural networks. Despite this, several operations are still performed in a sequential manner. For instance, the forward and backward passes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Federico Danieli , Miguel Sarabia , Xavier Suau , Pau Rodríguez , Luca Zappella