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Score-based Generative Models (SGMs) have demonstrated exceptional synthesis outcomes across various tasks. However, the current design landscape of the forward diffusion process remains largely untapped and often relies on physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Kushagra Pandey , Stephan Mandt

We introduce Score identity Distillation (SiD), an innovative data-free method that distills the generative capabilities of pretrained diffusion models into a single-step generator. SiD not only facilitates an exponentially fast reduction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Mingyuan Zhou , Huangjie Zheng , Zhendong Wang , Mingzhang Yin , Hai Huang

Diffusion models have quickly become some of the most popular and powerful generative models for high-dimensional data. The key insight that enabled their development was the realization that access to the score -- the gradient of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhenghan Fang , Mateo Díaz , Sam Buchanan , Jeremias Sulam

Idempotent generative networks (IGNs) are a new line of generative models based on idempotent mapping to a target manifold. IGNs support both single-and multi-step generation, allowing for a flexible trade-off between computational cost and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Shehtab Zaman , Chengyan Liu , Kenneth Chiu

Novel view synthesis under sparse views has been a long-term important challenge in 3D reconstruction. Existing works mainly rely on introducing external semantic or depth priors to supervise the optimization of 3D representations. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Qisen Wang , Yifan Zhao , Jiawei Ma , Jia Li

Diffusion models are powerful generative models that simulate the reverse of diffusion processes using score functions to synthesize data from noise. The sampling process of diffusion models can be interpreted as solving the reverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Beomsu Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Diffusion models achieve strong generation quality, diversity, and distribution coverage, but their performance often comes with expensive inference. In this work, we propose Stochastic Transition-Map Distillation (STMD), a teacher-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 George Rapakoulias , Peter Garud , Lingjiong Zhu , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Score-based generative models based on stochastic differential equations (SDEs) achieve impressive performance in sampling from unknown distributions, but often fail to satisfy underlying constraints. We propose a constrained generative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-29 Adam Nordenhög , Akash Sharma

A diffusion-based voice conversion (VC) model (e.g., VoiceGrad) can achieve high speech quality and speaker similarity; however, its conversion process is slow owing to iterative sampling. FastVoiceGrad overcomes this limitation by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

The denoising process of diffusion models can be interpreted as an approximate projection of noisy samples onto the data manifold. Moreover, the noise level in these samples approximates their distance to the underlying manifold. Building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Abulikemu Abuduweili , Chenyang Yuan , Changliu Liu , Frank Permenter

The proposed method, Discriminator Guidance, aims to improve sample generation of pre-trained diffusion models. The approach introduces a discriminator that gives explicit supervision to a denoising sample path whether it is realistic or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dongjun Kim , Yeongmin Kim , Se Jung Kwon , Wanmo Kang , Il-Chul Moon

Denoising diffusion models have recently shown impressive results in generative tasks. By learning powerful priors from huge collections of training images, such models are able to gradually modify complete noise to a clean natural image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Naama Pearl , Yaron Brodsky , Dana Berman , Assaf Zomet , Alex Rav Acha , Daniel Cohen-Or , Dani Lischinski

Inspired by the combination of feedforward and iterative computations in the virtual cortex, and taking advantage of the ability of denoising autoencoders to estimate the score of a joint distribution, we propose a novel approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Adriana Romero , Michal Drozdzal , Akram Erraqabi , Simon Jégou , Yoshua Bengio

Diffusion models have been recently studied as powerful generative inverse problem solvers, owing to their high quality reconstructions and the ease of combining existing iterative solvers. However, most works focus on solving simple linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-06 Hyungjin Chung , Jeongsol Kim , Michael T. Mccann , Marc L. Klasky , Jong Chul Ye

A key objective in spatial statistics is to simulate from the distribution of a spatial process at a selection of unobserved locations conditional on observations (i.e., a predictive distribution) to enable spatial prediction and…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-17 Julia Walchessen , Andrew Zammit-Mangion , Raphaël Huser , Mikael Kuusela

Recently, conditional score-based diffusion models have gained significant attention in the field of supervised speech enhancement, yielding state-of-the-art performance. However, these methods may face challenges when generalising to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Berné Nortier , Mostafa Sadeghi , Romain Serizel

Text-guided image and 3D editing have advanced with diffusion-based models, yet methods like Delta Denoising Score often struggle with stability, spatial control, and editing strength. These limitations stem from reliance on complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Haiming Zhu , Yangyang Xu , Chenshu Xu , Tingrui Shen , Wenxi Liu , Yong Du , Jun Yu , Shengfeng He

We are interested in gradient-based Explicit Generative Modeling where samples can be derived from iterative gradient updates based on an estimate of the score function of the data distribution. Recent advances in Stochastic Gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-08 Wei-Cheng Chang , Chun-Liang Li , Youssef Mroueh , Yiming Yang

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have emerged as a powerful class of deep generative models, achieving remarkable performance in image synthesis tasks. However, these models face challenges in terms of widespread adoption due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Kidist Amde Mekonnen , Nicola Dall'Asen , Paolo Rota

Current video captioning methods usually use an encoder-decoder structure to generate text autoregressively. However, autoregressive methods have inherent limitations such as slow generation speed and large cumulative error. Furthermore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Junbo Wang , Liangyu Fu , Yuke Li , Yining Zhu , Ya Jing , Xuecheng Wu , Jiangbin Zheng