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We construct a new kind of encoder, leveraging the expressive power of diffusion models. In a traditional variational autoencoder, the encoder and decoder jointly negotiate a latent representation of the input. This is made possible by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Akhil Premkumar , Sarah Lucioni

It is well-known that in inverse problems, end-to-end trained networks overfit the degradation model seen in the training set, i.e., they do not generalize to other types of degradations well. Recently, an approach to first map images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Cansu Korkmaz , A. Murat Tekalp , Zafer Dogan

Single-image reflection removal is a highly ill-posed problem, where existing methods struggle to reason about the composition of corrupted regions, causing them to fail at recovery and generalization in the wild. This work reframes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mingjia Li , Jin Hu , Hainuo Wang , Qiming Hu , Jiarui Wang , Xiaojie Guo

Recently, several discriminative learning approaches have been proposed for effective image restoration, achieving convincing trade-off between image quality and computational efficiency. However, these methods require separate training for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Lei Xiao , Felix Heide , Wolfgang Heidrich , Bernhard Schölkopf , Michael Hirsch

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) power state-of-the-art high-resolution generative image models. LDMs learn the data distribution in the latent space of an autoencoder (AE) and produce images by mapping the generated latents into RGB image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Tariq Berrada , Pietro Astolfi , Melissa Hall , Marton Havasi , Yohann Benchetrit , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Karteek Alahari , Michal Drozdzal , Jakob Verbeek

Diffusion-based methods represented as stochastic differential equations on a continuous-time domain have recently proven successful as a non-adversarial generative model. Training such models relies on denoising score matching, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sarthak Mittal , Korbinian Abstreiter , Stefan Bauer , Bernhard Schölkopf , Arash Mehrjou

We propose a new neural network based method for solving inverse problems for partial differential equations (PDEs) by formulating the PDE inverse problem as a bilevel optimization problem. At the upper level, we minimize the data loss with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ray Zirui Zhang , Christopher E. Miles , Xiaohui Xie , John S. Lowengrub

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as powerful generative models for solving inverse problems, offering a good approximation of prior distributions of real-world image data. Typically, diffusion models rely on large-scale clean signals to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yifei Wang , Weimin Bai , Weijian Luo , Wenzheng Chen , He Sun

Ill-posed imaging inverse problems remain challenging due to the ambiguity in mapping degraded observations to clean images. Diffusion-based generative priors have recently shown promise, but typically rely on computationally intensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Ayush Varshney , Katherine L. Bouman , Berthy T. Feng

Score-based diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance for inverse problems, but their practical deployment is hindered by long inference times and cumbersome hyperparameter tuning. While pretrained diffusion models can be reused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Julio Oscanoa , Irmak Sivgin , Cagan Alkan , Daniel Ennis , John Pauly , Mert Pilanci , Shreyas Vasanawala

Inverse design refers to the problem of optimizing the input of an objective function in order to enact a target outcome. For many real-world engineering problems, the objective function takes the form of a simulator that predicts how the…

Diffusion models generate images with an unprecedented level of quality, but how can we freely rearrange image layouts? Recent works generate controllable scenes via learning spatially disentangled latent codes, but these methods do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jiawei Ren , Mengmeng Xu , Jui-Chieh Wu , Ziwei Liu , Tao Xiang , Antoine Toisoul

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art synthesis quality on both visual and audio tasks, and recent works further adapt them to textual data by diffusing on the embedding space. In this paper, we conduct systematic studies of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zhujin Gao , Junliang Guo , Xu Tan , Yongxin Zhu , Fang Zhang , Jiang Bian , Linli Xu

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have recently attracted increasing attention by showing impressive synthesis quality. DDMs are built on a diffusion process that pushes data to the noise distribution and the models learn to denoise. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jaemoo Choi , Yesom Park , Myungjoo Kang

Learning-based and data-driven techniques have recently become a subject of primary interest in the field of reconstruction and regularization of inverse problems. Besides the development of novel methods, yielding excellent results in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-22 Luca Ratti

Pre-trained diffusion models have enabled significant advancements in All-in-One Restoration (AiOR), offering improved perceptual quality and generalization. However, diffusion-based restoration methods primarily rely on fine-tuning or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Sudarshan Rajagopalan , Vishal M. Patel

We introduce a deep learning (DL) framework for inverse problems in imaging, and demonstrate the advantages and applicability of this approach in passive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image reconstruction. We interpret image recon-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Bariscan Yonel , Eric Mason , Birsen Yazıcı

We present a novel approach to leverage prior knowledge encapsulated in pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models for blind super-resolution (SR). Specifically, by employing our time-aware encoder, we can achieve promising restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Jianyi Wang , Zongsheng Yue , Shangchen Zhou , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Chen Change Loy

Diffusion models have become a successful approach for solving various image inverse problems by providing a powerful diffusion prior. Many studies tried to combine the measurement into diffusion by score function replacement, matrix…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Hanyu Chen , Zhixiu Hao , Liying Xiao

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as the go-to generative framework for solving inverse problems in imaging. A critical concern regarding these models is their performance on out-of-distribution tasks, which remains an under-explored…

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