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Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional ability in modeling complex image distributions, making them versatile plug-and-play priors for solving imaging inverse problems. However, their reliance on large-scale clean datasets for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Weimin Bai , Weiheng Tang , Enze Ye , Siyi Chen , Wenzheng Chen , He Sun

Real-world datasets collected from sensors or human inputs are prone to noise and errors, posing significant challenges for applying offline reinforcement learning (RL). While existing methods have made progress in addressing corrupted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Zeyuan Liu , Zhihe Yang , Jiawei Xu , Rui Yang , Jiafei Lyu , Baoxiang Wang , Yunjian Xu , Xiu Li

Text-to-image diffusion models have been adopted into key commercial workflows, such as art generation and image editing. Characterising the implicit social biases they exhibit, such as gender and racial stereotypes, is a necessary first…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Adhithya Prakash Saravanan , Rafal Kocielnik , Roy Jiang , Pengrui Han , Anima Anandkumar

Recently, diffusion models have shown remarkable results in image synthesis by gradually removing noise and amplifying signals. Although the simple generative process surprisingly works well, is this the best way to generate image data? For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Sangyun Lee , Hyungjin Chung , Jaehyeon Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Standard diffusion models involve an image transform -- adding Gaussian noise -- and an image restoration operator that inverts this degradation. We observe that the generative behavior of diffusion models is not strongly dependent on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Arpit Bansal , Eitan Borgnia , Hong-Min Chu , Jie S. Li , Hamid Kazemi , Furong Huang , Micah Goldblum , Jonas Geiping , Tom Goldstein

Few-shot fine-tuning of Diffusion Models (DMs) is a key advancement, significantly reducing training costs and enabling personalized AI applications. However, we explore the training dynamics of DMs and observe an unanticipated phenomenon:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiaoyu Wu , Jiaru Zhang , Yang Hua , Bohan Lyu , Hao Wang , Tao Song , Haibing Guan

This paper develops a unified framework for image-to-image translation based on conditional diffusion models and evaluates this framework on four challenging image-to-image translation tasks, namely colorization, inpainting, uncropping, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Chitwan Saharia , William Chan , Huiwen Chang , Chris A. Lee , Jonathan Ho , Tim Salimans , David J. Fleet , Mohammad Norouzi

Generative models have been widely studied in computer vision. Recently, diffusion models have drawn substantial attention due to the high quality of their generated images. A key desired property of image generative models is the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Qiucheng Wu , Yujian Liu , Handong Zhao , Ajinkya Kale , Trung Bui , Tong Yu , Zhe Lin , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang

Image reconstruction and image synthesis are important for handling incomplete multimodal imaging data, but existing methods require various task-specific models, complicating training and deployment workflows. We introduce Any2all, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Weijie Gan , Xucheng Wang , Tongyao Wang , Wenshang Wang , Chunwei Ying , Yuyang Hu , Yasheng Chen , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Memorization in over-parameterized neural networks could severely hurt generalization in the presence of mislabeled examples. However, mislabeled examples are hard to avoid in extremely large datasets collected with weak supervision. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Jiaming Song , Lunjia Hu , Michael Auli , Yann Dauphin , Tengyu Ma

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

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generative modeling. Despite more stable training, the loss of diffusion models is not indicative of absolute data-fitting quality, since its optimal value is typically not zero but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yixian Xu , Shengjie Luo , Liwei Wang , Di He , Chang Liu

The difficulty of obtaining paired data remains a major bottleneck for learning image restoration and enhancement models for real-world applications. Current strategies aim to synthesize realistic training data by modeling noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Valentin Wolf , Andreas Lugmayr , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Adding additional control to pretrained diffusion models has become an increasingly popular research area, with extensive applications in computer vision, reinforcement learning, and AI for science. Recently, several studies have proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yifei Shen , Xinyang Jiang , Yezhen Wang , Yifan Yang , Dongqi Han , Dongsheng Li

Internal features from large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have recently been established as powerful semantic descriptors for a wide range of downstream tasks. Works that use these features generally need to add noise to images before…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Nick Stracke , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Kolja Bauer , Frank Fundel , Björn Ommer

It has been recognized that the data generated by the denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) improves adversarial training. After two years of rapid development in diffusion models, a question naturally arises: can better diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Zekai Wang , Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Min Lin , Weiwei Liu , Shuicheng Yan

Current vision systems are trained on huge datasets, and these datasets come with costs: curation is expensive, they inherit human biases, and there are concerns over privacy and usage rights. To counter these costs, interest has surged in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Manel Baradad , Jonas Wulff , Tongzhou Wang , Phillip Isola , Antonio Torralba

Natural language offers a highly intuitive interface for image editing. In this paper, we introduce the first solution for performing local (region-based) edits in generic natural images, based on a natural language description along with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Omri Avrahami , Dani Lischinski , Ohad Fried

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have recently attracted increasing attention by showing impressive synthesis quality. DDMs are built on a diffusion process that pushes data to the noise distribution and the models learn to denoise. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jaemoo Choi , Yesom Park , Myungjoo Kang

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional efficacy in various generative applications. While existing models focus on minimizing a weighted sum of denoising score matching losses for data distribution modeling, their training primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Ling Yang , Haotian Qian , Zhilong Zhang , Jingwei Liu , Bin Cui