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Score-based generative models (SGMs) are a powerful class of generative models that exhibit remarkable empirical performance. Score-based generative modelling (SGM) consists of a ``noising'' stage, whereby a diffusion is used to gradually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Valentin De Bortoli , Emile Mathieu , Michael Hutchinson , James Thornton , Yee Whye Teh , Arnaud Doucet

Recent advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs) have opened up the possibility of generating high-resolution photo-realistic images that were impossible to produce previously. The ability of GANs to sample from high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Arthur Conmy , Subhadip Mukherjee , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Recent advances in generative models have made exploring design spaces easier for de novo molecule generation. However, popular generative models like GANs and normalizing flows face challenges such as training instabilities due to…

Bayesian inference in complex generative models is often obstructed by the absence of tractable likelihoods and the infeasibility of computing gradients of high-dimensional simulators. Existing likelihood-free methods for generalized…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-05 Diksha Bhandari , Sebastian Reich

We propose a sampling method based on an ensemble approximation of second order Langevin dynamics. The log target density is appended with a quadratic term in an auxiliary momentum variable and damped-driven Hamiltonian dynamics introduced;…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Ziming Liu , Andrew M. Stuart , Yixuan Wang

Symmetry is ubiquitous in many real-world phenomena and tasks, such as physics, images, and molecular simulations. Empirical studies have demonstrated that incorporating symmetries into generative models can provide better generalization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Ziyu Chen , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Benjamin J. Zhang

Stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (SGLD) is a computationally efficient sampler for Bayesian posterior inference given a large scale dataset. Although SGLD is designed for unbounded random variables, many practical models incorporate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-21 Soma Yokoi , Takuma Otsuka , Issei Sato

In this work we study the diffusion annealed Langevin dynamics, a score-based diffusion process recently introduced in the theory of generative models and which is an alternative to the classical overdamped Langevin diffusion. Our goal is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Patrick Cattiaux , Paula Cordero-Encinar , Arnaud Guillin

Recovering signals from low-order moments is a fundamental yet notoriously difficult task in inverse problems. This recovery process often reduces to solving ill-conditioned systems of polynomial equations. In this work, we propose a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Rafi Beinhorn , Shay Kreymer , Amnon Balanov , Michael Cohen , Alon Zabatani , Tamir Bendory

The proposed BSDE-based diffusion model represents a novel approach to diffusion modeling, which extends the application of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) in machine learning. Unlike traditional SDE-based diffusion models, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Zihao Wang

Since most inverse problems arising in scientific and engineering applications are ill-posed, prior information about the solution space is incorporated, typically through regularization, to establish a well-posed problem with a unique…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Carter Lyons , Raghu G. Raj , Margaret Cheney

Score-based generative models (SGMs) are a popular family of deep generative models that achieve leading image generation quality. Early studies extend SGMs to tackle class-conditional generation by coupling an unconditional SGM with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Paul Kuo-Ming Huang , Si-An Chen , Hsuan-Tien Lin

We present a computational framework for estimating the uncertainty in the numerical solution of linearized infinite-dimensional statistical inverse problems. We adopt the Bayesian inference formulation: given observational data and their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-07 Tan Bui-Thanh , Omar Ghattas , James Martin , Georg Stadler

Score-based generative models can produce high quality image samples comparable to GANs, without requiring adversarial optimization. However, existing training procedures are limited to images of low resolution (typically below 32x32), and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Yang Song , Stefano Ermon

We introduce a novel geometry-informed irreversible perturbation that accelerates convergence of the Langevin algorithm for Bayesian computation. It is well documented that there exist perturbations to the Langevin dynamics that preserve…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-02 Benjamin J. Zhang , Youssef M. Marzouk , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

Score-based diffusion methods provide a powerful strategy to solve image restoration tasks by flexibly combining a pre-trained foundational prior model with a likelihood function specified during test time. Such methods are predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Charlesquin Kemajou Mbakam , Jean-Francois Giovannelli , Marcelo Pereyra

We consider the robustness of score-based generative modeling to errors in the estimate of the score function. In particular, we show that Langevin dynamics is not robust to the L^2 errors (more generally L^p errors) in the estimate of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Daniel Yiming Cao , August Y. Chen , Karthik Sridharan , Yuchen Wu

Score-based diffusion models (SBDM) have recently emerged as state-of-the-art approaches for image generation. Existing SBDMs are typically formulated in a finite-dimensional setting, where images are considered as tensors of finite size.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Paul Hagemann , Sophie Mildenberger , Lars Ruthotto , Gabriele Steidl , Nicole Tianjiao Yang

Sampling from discrete distributions is a ubiquitous task in machine learning, recently revisited by the emergence of discrete diffusion models. While Langevin algorithms constitute the state of the art for continuous spaces, discrete…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Armand Gissler , Saeed Saremi , Francis Bach

The Bayesian approach to solving inverse problems relies on the choice of a prior. This critical ingredient allows the formulation of expert knowledge or physical constraints in a probabilistic fashion and plays an important role for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-08 Manuel Marschall , Gerd Wübbeler , Franko Schmähling , Clemens Elster