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Diffusion bridges (DB) have emerged as a promising alternative to diffusion models for imaging inverse problems, achieving faster sampling by directly bridging low- and high-quality image distributions. While incorporating measurement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yuyang Hu , Albert Peng , Weijie Gan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Diffusion Bridge and Flow Matching have both demonstrated compelling empirical performance in transformation between arbitrary distributions. However, there remains confusion about which approach is generally preferable, and the substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kaizhen Zhu , Mokai Pan , Zhechuan Yu , Jingya Wang , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi

Multimodal Machine Translation (MMT) typically enhances text-only translation by incorporating aligned visual features. Despite the remarkable progress, state-of-the-art MMT approaches often rely on paired image-text inputs at inference and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jie Wang , Zhendong Yang , Liansong Zong , Xiaobo Zhang , Dexian Wang , Ji Zhang

The Dual Diffusion Implicit Bridge (DDIB) is an emerging image-to-image (I2I) translation method that preserves cycle consistency while achieving strong flexibility. It links two independently trained diffusion models (DMs) in the source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zhanpeng Wang , Shuting Cao , Yuhang Lu , Yuhan Li , Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo

The Diffusion Model (DM) has emerged as the SOTA approach for image synthesis. However, the existing DM cannot perform well on some image-to-image translation (I2I) tasks. Different from image synthesis, some I2I tasks, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Bin Xia , Yulun Zhang , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu , Yapeng Tian , Wenming Yang , Radu Timotfe , Luc Van Gool

The diffusion bridge, which is a diffusion process conditioned on hitting a specific state within a finite period, has found broad applications in various scientific and engineering fields. However, simulating diffusion bridges for modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Gefan Yang , Elizabeth Louise Baker , Michael L. Severinsen , Christy Anna Hipsley , Stefan Sommer

Predicting the intermediate trajectories between an initial and target distribution is a central problem in generative modeling. Existing approaches, such as flow matching and Schr\"odinger bridge matching, effectively learn mappings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sophia Tang , Yinuo Zhang , Alexander Tong , Pranam Chatterjee

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have emerged as competitive generative models yet brought challenges to efficient sampling. In this paper, we propose novel bilateral denoising diffusion models (BDDMs), which take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Max W. Y. Lam , Jun Wang , Rongjie Huang , Dan Su , Dong Yu

We provide a general framework for learning diffusion bridges that transport prior to target distributions. It includes existing diffusion models for generative modeling, but also underdamped versions with degenerate diffusion matrices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Denis Blessing , Julius Berner , Lorenz Richter , Gerhard Neumann

With large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models achieving significant advancements in open-domain image creation, increasing attention has been focused on their natural extension to the realm of text-driven image-to-image (I2I)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xiang Gao , Yunpeng Jia

Visual prompt, a pair of before-and-after edited images, can convey indescribable imagery transformations and prosper in image editing. However, current visual prompt methods rely on a pretrained text-guided image-to-image generative model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Pengcheng Xu , Qingnan Fan , Fei Kou , Shuai Qin , Hong Gu , Ruoyu Zhao , Charles Ling , Boyu Wang

Recent score-based diffusion models (SBDMs) show promising results in unpaired image-to-image translation (I2I). However, existing methods, either energy-based or statistically-based, provide no explicit form of the interfered intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Shikun Sun , Longhui Wei , Junliang Xing , Jia Jia , Qi Tian

Large Language Models have shown remarkable efficacy in generating streaming data such as text and audio, thanks to their temporally uni-directional attention mechanism, which models correlations between the current token and previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zhening Xing , Gereon Fox , Yanhong Zeng , Xingang Pan , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt , Kai Chen

We study Diffusion Schr\"odinger Bridge (DSB) models in the context of dynamical astrophysical systems, specifically tackling observational inverse prediction tasks within Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) for star formation. We introduce the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Ye Zhu , Duo Xu , Zhiwei Deng , Jonathan C. Tan , Olga Russakovsky

We propose Image-to-Image Schr\"odinger Bridge (I$^2$SB), a new class of conditional diffusion models that directly learn the nonlinear diffusion processes between two given distributions. These diffusion bridges are particularly useful for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Guan-Horng Liu , Arash Vahdat , De-An Huang , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Weili Nie , Anima Anandkumar

Multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides rich, complementary information for analyzing diseases. However, the practical challenges of acquiring multiple MRI modalities, such as cost, scan time, and safety considerations, often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Zhaohu Xing , Sicheng Yang , Sixiang Chen , Tian Ye , Yijun Yang , Jing Qin , Lei Zhu

Sampling from unnormalized densities using diffusion models has emerged as a powerful paradigm. However, while recent approaches that use least-squares `matching' objectives have improved scalability, they often necessitate significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Denis Blessing , Lorenz Richter , Julius Berner , Egor Malitskiy , Gerhard Neumann

We introduce Transfusion, a recipe for training a multi-modal model over discrete and continuous data. Transfusion combines the language modeling loss function (next token prediction) with diffusion to train a single transformer over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Chunting Zhou , Lili Yu , Arun Babu , Kushal Tirumala , Michihiro Yasunaga , Leonid Shamis , Jacob Kahn , Xuezhe Ma , Luke Zettlemoyer , Omer Levy

We introduce a theoretical framework for diffusion-based image editing by formulating it as a reverse-time bridge modeling problem. This approach modifies the backward process of a pretrained diffusion model to construct a bridge that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Toan Nguyen , Kien Do , Duc Kieu , Thin Nguyen

We propose simple methods for multivariate diffusion bridge simulation, which plays a fundamental role in simulation-based likelihood and Bayesian inference for stochastic differential equations. By a novel application of classical coupling…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Mogens Bladt , Samuel Finch , Michael Sørensen