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Diffusion models, emerging as powerful deep generative tools, excel in various applications. They operate through a two-steps process: introducing noise into training samples and then employing a model to convert random noise into new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Huijie Zhang , Yifu Lu , Ismail Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Dogyoon Song , Qing Qu

Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) is an important index for wireless communications. In CDMA systems, spreading sequences are utilized. This series of papers show the method to derive spreading sequences as the solutions of the non-linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Hirofumi Tsuda , Ken Umeno

We challenge a fundamental assumption of diffusion models, namely, that a large number of latent-states or time-steps is required for training so that the reverse generative process is close to a Gaussian. We first show that with careful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Samarth Gupta , Raghudeep Gadde , Rui Chen , Aleix M. Martinez

The new paradigm of test-time scaling has yielded remarkable breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) (e.g. reasoning models) and in generative vision models, allowing models to allocate additional computation during inference to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Luca Eyring , Shyamgopal Karthik , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Nataniel Ruiz , Zeynep Akata

Diffusion models have been shown to implicitly generate visual content autoregressively in the frequency domain, where low-frequency components are generated earlier in the denoising process while high-frequency details emerge only in later…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Howard Xiao , Brian Chao , Lior Yariv , Gordon Wetzstein

This paper presents a novel theoretical framework for understanding how diffusion models can learn disentangled representations. Within this framework, we establish identifiability conditions for general disentangled latent variable models,…

We empirically study the effect of noise scheduling strategies for denoising diffusion generative models. There are three findings: (1) the noise scheduling is crucial for the performance, and the optimal one depends on the task (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ting Chen

We propose a diffusion-based inverse rendering framework that decomposes a single RGB image into geometry, material, and lighting. Inverse rendering is inherently ill-posed, making it difficult to predict a single accurate solution. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 JunYong Choi , Min-Cheol Sagong , SeokYeong Lee , Seung-Won Jung , Ig-Jae Kim , Junghyun Cho

The efficient Test-Time Scaling (TTS) paradigm offers a promising perspective for enhancing the generation performance of diffusion models. However, current solutions are limited to a static, pre-defined noise pool and suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Gang Dai , Yining Huang , Yiming Xia , Guohao Chen , Shuaicheng Niu

Total variation (TV) denoising is a nonparametric smoothing method that has good properties for preserving sharp edges and contours in objects with spatial structures like natural images. The estimate is sparse in the sense that TV…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-06 Sylvain Sardy , Hatef Monajemi

This paper proposes a novel regularization method, named Spatio-Spectral Structure Tensor Total Variation (S3TTV), for denoising and destriping of hyperspectral (HS) images. HS images are inevitably contaminated by various types of noise,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Shingo Takemoto , Kazuki Naganuma , Shunsuke Ono

In this paper, a novel time-based modulation scheme is proposed in the time-asynchronous channel for diffusion-based molecular communication systems with drift. Based on this modulation scheme, we demonstrate that the sample variance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Qingchao Li

A waveform channel is considered where the transmitted signal is corrupted by Wiener phase noise and additive white Gaussian noise. A discrete-time channel model that takes into account the effect of filtering on the phase noise is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Hassan Ghozlan , Gerhard Kramer

Recent text-to-image diffusion models generate high-quality images but struggle to learn new, personalized styles, which limits the creation of unique style templates. In style-driven generation, users typically supply reference images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jooyoung Choi , Chaehun Shin , Yeongtak Oh , Heeseung Kim , Jungbeom Lee , Sungroh Yoon

To obtain the best resolution for any measurement there is an ever-present challenge to achieve maximal differentiation between signal and noise over as fine of sampling dimensions as possible. In diffraction science these issues are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-23 James Weng , Niklas B. Thompson , Christopher Folmar , James D. Martin , Christina Hoffman

Diffusion models have recently achieved great success in the synthesis of high-quality images and videos. However, the existing denoising techniques in diffusion models are commonly based on step-by-step noise predictions, which suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hancheng Ye , Jiakang Yuan , Renqiu Xia , Xiangchao Yan , Tao Chen , Junchi Yan , Botian Shi , Bo Zhang

Diffusion models have been used for probabilistic time series forecasting and show strong potential. However, fixed noise schedules often produce intermediate states that are hard to invert and a terminal state that deviates from the near…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jintao Zhang , Zirui Liu , Mingyue Cheng , Xianquan Wang , Zhiding Liu , Qi Liu

Advances in diffusion models for generative artificial intelligence have recently propagated to the time series (TS) domain, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance on various tasks. However, prior works on TS diffusion models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Seunghan Lee , Kibok Lee , Taeyoung Park

Recent works have shown that diffusion models can undergo phase transitions, the resolution of which is needed for accurately generating samples. This has motivated the use of different noise schedules, the two most common choices being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Santiago Aranguri , Giulio Biroli , Marc Mezard , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful generative frameworks for producing high-quality images. A pivotal component of these models is the noise schedule, which governs the rate of noise injection during the diffusion process.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Zhehao Guo , Jiedong Lang , Shuyu Huang , Yunfei Gao , Xintong Ding