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Diffusion models are powerful deep generative models, but unlike classical models, they lack an explicit low-dimensional latent space that parameterizes the data manifold. This absence makes it difficult to perform manifold-aware…

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The inverse problem of backward diffusion is known to be ill-posed and highly unstable. Backward diffusion processes appear naturally in image enhancement and deblurring applications. It is therefore greatly desirable to establish a…

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