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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.,…

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Recent advances in neural-network based generative modeling of speech has shown great potential for speech coding. However, the performance of such models drops when the input is not clean speech, e.g., in the presence of background noise,…

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While foundation models demonstrate impressive performance across various tasks, they remain vulnerable to adversarial inputs. Current research explores various approaches to enhance model robustness, with Diffusion Denoised Smoothing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yury Belousov , Brian Pulfer , Vitaliy Kinakh , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Deep learning approaches in image processing predominantly resort to supervised learning. A majority of methods for image denoising are no exception to this rule and hence demand pairs of noisy and corresponding clean images. Only recently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Priyatham Kattakinda , A. N. Rajagopalan

While diffusion models have achieved great success in generating continuous signals such as images and audio, it remains elusive for diffusion models in learning discrete sequence data like natural languages. Although recent advances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Jiasheng Ye , Zaixiang Zheng , Yu Bao , Lihua Qian , Mingxuan Wang

In recent years, denoising problems have become intertwined with the development of deep generative models. In particular, diffusion models are trained like denoisers, and the distribution they model coincide with denoising priors in the…

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

Diffusion models generate new samples by progressively decreasing the noise from the initially provided random distribution. This inference procedure generally utilizes a trained neural network numerous times to obtain the final output,…

We analyze, theoretically and empirically, the performance of generative diffusion models based on \emph{blind denoisers}, in which the denoiser is not given the noise amplitude in either the training or sampling processes. Assuming that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Sinho Chewi , Eero Simoncelli

Image noise is ubiquitous in photography. However, image noise is not compressible nor desirable, thus attempting to convey the noise in compressed image bitstreams yields sub-par results in both rate and distortion. We propose to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Benoit Brummer , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Conditional diffusion probabilistic models can model the distribution of natural images and can generate diverse and realistic samples based on given conditions. However, oftentimes their results can be unrealistic with observable color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Kangfu Mei , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Vishal M. Patel

Denoising diffusion models are widely used for high-quality image and video generation. Their performance depends on noise schedules, which define the distribution of noise levels applied during training and the sequence of noise levels…

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Recent progress with conditional image diffusion models has been stunning, and this holds true whether we are speaking about models conditioned on a text description, a scene layout, or a sketch. Unconditional image diffusion models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 William Harvey , Frank Wood

Diffusion models have attained remarkable success in the domains of image generation and editing. It is widely recognized that employing larger inversion and denoising steps in diffusion model leads to improved image reconstruction quality.…

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Denoising Diffusion models are gaining increasing popularity in the field of generative modeling for several reasons, including the simple and stable training, the excellent generative quality, and the solid probabilistic foundation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Andrea Asperti , Davide Evangelista , Samuele Marro , Fabio Merizzi

Quantum denoising diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful framework for generative quantum machine learning. In this work, we extend these models by introducing a conditioning mechanism that enables the generation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Daniel Quinn , Lorenzo Buffoni , Stefano Gherardini , Gabriele De Chiara

This work proposes a learning-based statistical refinement method for improving the denoising results of a given denoiser without knowing the precise noise distribution or accessing clean images or calibration data. While there are many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Rihuan Ke

Practically, training diffusion models typically requires explicit time conditioning to guide the network through the denoising sampling process. Especially in deterministic methods like DDIM, the absence of time conditioning leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Liuzhuozheng Li , Zhiyuan Zhan , Shuhong Liu , Dengyang Jiang , Zanyi Wang , Guang Dai , Jingdong Wang , Mengmeng Wang

We tackle a challenging blind image denoising problem, in which only single distinct noisy images are available for training a denoiser, and no information about noise is known, except for it being zero-mean, additive, and independent of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Sungmin Cha , Taeeon Park , Byeongjoon Kim , Jongduk Baek , Taesup Moon

We present a method for training a neural network to perform image denoising without access to clean training examples or access to paired noisy training examples. Our method requires only a single noisy realization of each training example…

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