English
Related papers

Related papers: Learning dissection trajectories from expert surgi…

200 papers

Recent studies have shown the great potential of diffusion models in improving reinforcement learning (RL) by modeling complex policies, expressing a high degree of multi-modality, and efficiently handling high-dimensional continuous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Huiyun Jiang , Zhuang Yang

We present a unified framework for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using video-inpainting diffusion transformer models. Unlike existing methods that devise specialized strategies for either forward or inverse problems under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Edward Li , Zichen Wang , Jiahe Huang , Jeong Joon Park

We present a novel method for multi-view depth estimation from a single video, which is a critical task in various applications, such as perception, reconstruction and robot navigation. Although previous learning-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Xiaoxiao Long , Lingjie Liu , Wei Li , Christian Theobalt , Wenping Wang

We present Roto-Translation Equivariant Spherical Deconvolution (RT-ESD), an $E(3)\times SO(3)$ equivariant framework for sparse deconvolution of volumes where each voxel contains a spherical signal. Such 6D data naturally arises in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Axel Elaldi , Guido Gerig , Neel Dey

Modern diffusion MRI sequences commonly acquire a large number of volumes with diffusion sensitization gradients of differing strengths or directions. Such sequences rely on echo-planar imaging (EPI) to achieve reasonable scan duration.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Antoine Legouhy , Ross Callaghan , Whitney Stee , Philippe Peigneux , Hojjat Azadbakht , Hui Zhang

Diffusion-based generative models use stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and their equivalent ordinary differential equations (ODEs) to establish a smooth connection between a complex data distribution and a tractable prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-25 Defang Chen , Zhenyu Zhou , Can Wang , Chunhua Shen , Siwei Lyu

Diffusion models are a class of flexible generative models trained with an approximation to the log-likelihood objective. However, most use cases of diffusion models are not concerned with likelihoods, but instead with downstream objectives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Kevin Black , Michael Janner , Yilun Du , Ilya Kostrikov , Sergey Levine

Diffusion-based imitation learning improves Behavioral Cloning (BC) on multi-modal decision-making, but comes at the cost of significantly slower inference due to the recursion in the diffusion process. It urges us to design efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Xixi Hu , Bo Liu , Xingchao Liu , Qiang Liu

This paper studies the theoretical underpinnings of machine learning of ergodic It\^o diffusions. The objective is to understand the convergence properties of the invariant statistics when the underlying system of stochastic differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 He Zhang , John Harlim , Xiantao Li

Weakly supervised medical image segmentation (MIS) using generative models is crucial for clinical diagnosis. However, the accuracy of the segmentation results is often limited by insufficient supervision and the complex nature of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Zhihao Shuai , Yinan Chen , Shunqiang Mao , Yihan Zho , Xiaohong Zhang

Existing diffusion-based methods have achieved impressive results in human motion editing. However, these methods often exhibit significant ghosting and body distortion in unseen in-the-wild cases. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yi Zuo , Lingling Li , Licheng Jiao , Fang Liu , Xu Liu , Wenping Ma , Shuyuan Yang , Yuwei Guo

Current robotic pick-and-place policies typically require consistent gripper configurations across training and inference. This constraint imposes high retraining or fine-tuning costs, especially for imitation learning-based approaches,…

The Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM) has recently gained popularity in the field of computer vision, thanks to its image generation applications, such as Imagen, Latent Diffusion Models, and Stable Diffusion, which have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Junde Wu , Wei Ji , Huazhu Fu , Min Xu , Yueming Jin , Yanwu Xu

Diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model with high quality samples, with intriguing properties such as mode coverage and high flexibility. They have also been shown to be effective inverse problem solvers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hyungjin Chung , Dohoon Ryu , Michael T. McCann , Marc L. Klasky , Jong Chul Ye

We aim to solve the problem of generating coarse-to-fine skills learning from demonstrations (LfD). To scale precision, traditional LfD approaches often rely on extensive fine-grained demonstrations with external interpolations or dynamics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Nayoung Oh , Jaehyeong Jang , Moonkyeong Jung , Daehyung Park

Skin diseases affect millions of people worldwide, across all ethnicities. Increasing diagnosis accessibility requires fair and accurate segmentation and classification of dermatology images. However, the scarcity of annotated medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Héctor Carrión , Narges Norouzi

Integrating generative models with action chunking has shown significant promise in imitation learning for robotic manipulation. However, the existing diffusion-based paradigm often struggles to capture strong temporal dependencies across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dianye Huang , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

This study presents the first evaluation of general-purpose imitation learning for surgeon-robot collaborative assistance in open surgery, targeting suture following: the grab-pull-release motion an assistant performs at every stitch. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Xucheng Wang , Zhizhou Yang , Xiaoman Zhang , Sung Eun Kim , Romain Hardy , Pranav Rajpurkar

Learning rewards from expert videos offers an affordable and effective solution to specify the intended behaviors for reinforcement learning (RL) tasks. In this work, we propose Diffusion Reward, a novel framework that learns rewards from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Tao Huang , Guangqi Jiang , Yanjie Ze , Huazhe Xu

An option is a short-term skill consisting of a control policy for a specified region of the state space, and a termination condition recognizing leaving that region. In prior work, we proposed an algorithm called Deep Discovery of Options…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Sanjay Krishnan , Roy Fox , Ion Stoica , Ken Goldberg