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Diffusion models have recently driven significant breakthroughs in generative modeling. While state-of-the-art models produce high-quality samples on average, individual samples can still be low quality. Detecting such samples without human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Metod Jazbec , Eliot Wong-Toi , Guoxuan Xia , Dan Zhang , Eric Nalisnick , Stephan Mandt

While many unsupervised learning models focus on one family of tasks, either generative or discriminative, we explore the possibility of a unified representation learner: a model which uses a single pre-training stage to address both…

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Despite the remarkable progress in generative modelling, current diffusion models lack a quantitative approach to assess image quality. To address this limitation, we propose to estimate the pixel-wise aleatoric uncertainty during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Michele De Vita , Vasileios Belagiannis

In this paper optimal designs for regression problems with spherical predictors of arbitrary dimension are considered. Our work is motivated by applications in material sciences, where crystallographic textures such as the missorientation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Holger Dette , Maria Konstantinou , Kirsten Schorning , Josua Gösmann

Diffusion model-based approaches have shown promise in data-driven planning, but there are no safety guarantees, thus making it hard to be applied for safety-critical applications. To address these challenges, we propose a new method,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Wei Xiao , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Chuang Gan , Daniela Rus

This paper presents a novel method designed to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of both image retrieval and pixel retrieval. Traditional diffusion methods struggle to propagate spatial information effectively in conventional graphs due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Guoyuan An , Yuchi Huo , Sung-Eui Yoon

Generating realistic 3D objects from single-view images requires natural appearance, 3D consistency, and the ability to capture multiple plausible interpretations of unseen regions. Existing approaches often rely on fine-tuning pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Pufan Li , Bi'an Du , Wei Hu

Denoising diffusion models, a class of generative models, have garnered immense interest lately in various deep-learning problems. A diffusion probabilistic model defines a forward diffusion stage where the input data is gradually perturbed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Amirhossein Kazerouni , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Moein Heidari , Reza Azad , Mohsen Fayyaz , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

Diffusion models have shown an impressive ability to model complex data distributions, with several key advantages over GANs, such as stable training, better coverage of the training distribution's modes, and the ability to solve inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yinbo Chen , Oliver Wang , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Xiaolong Wang , Michael Gharbi

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is an intriguing open-world problem that has garnered increasing attention. Given a dataset that includes both labelled and unlabelled images, GCD aims to categorize all images in the unlabelled subset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yuanpei Liu , Zhenqi He , Kai Han

Limited by the encoder-decoder architecture, learning-based edge detectors usually have difficulty predicting edge maps that satisfy both correctness and crispness. With the recent success of the diffusion probabilistic model (DPM), we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yunfan Ye , Kai Xu , Yuhang Huang , Renjiao Yi , Zhiping Cai

Recently, Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification has attracted increasing attention in remote sensing. However, HSI data are inherently high-dimensional but low-rank, with discriminative information concentrated on a low-dimensional…

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Generative models realized with machine learning techniques are powerful tools to infer complex and unknown data distributions from a finite number of training samples in order to produce new synthetic data. Diffusion models are an emerging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Marco Parigi , Stefano Martina , Filippo Caruso

Diffusion-based generative models have shown promise in synthesizing histopathology images to address data scarcity caused by privacy constraints. Diagnostic text reports provide high-level semantic descriptions, and masks offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mahesh Bhosale , Abdul Wasi , Yuanhao Zhai , Yunjie Tian , Samuel Border , Nan Xi , Pinaki Sarder , Junsong Yuan , David Doermann , Xuan Gong

The close relation between the processes of paraxial diffraction and coherent diffusion is reflected in the similarity between their shape-preserving solutions, notably the Gaussian modes. Differences between these solutions enter only for…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-27 Dimity Yankelev , Ofer Firstenberg , Moshe Shuker , Nir Davidson

This paper introduces $\infty$-Diff, a generative diffusion model defined in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, which can model infinite resolution data. By training on randomly sampled subsets of coordinates and denoising content only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Sam Bond-Taylor , Chris G. Willcocks

We introduce a framework for designing efficient diffusion models for $d$-dimensional symmetric-space Riemannian manifolds, including the torus, sphere, special orthogonal group and unitary group. Existing manifold diffusion models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Oren Mangoubi , Neil He , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Diffusion Models (DMs) are powerful generative models that add Gaussian noise to the data and learn to remove it. We wanted to determine which noise distribution (Gaussian or non-Gaussian) led to better generated data in DMs. Since DMs do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Kilian Fatras , Ke Li , Tal Kachman

In brain imaging, the image acquisition and processing processes themselves are likely to introduce noise to the images. It is therefore imperative to reduce the noise while preserving the geometric details of the anatomical structures for…

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