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Diffusion probabilistic models learn to remove noise added during training, generating novel data (e.g., images) from Gaussian noise through sequential denoising. However, conditioning the generative process on corrupted or masked images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sakshi Agarwal , Gabriel Hope , Jimin Heo , Erik B. Sudderth

Guided diffusion is a technique for conditioning the output of a diffusion model at sampling time without retraining the network for each specific task. One drawback of diffusion models, however, is their slow sampling process. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Suttisak Wizadwongsa , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Diffusion models have emerged as dominant performers for image generation. To support training large diffusion models, this paper studies pipeline parallel training of diffusion models and proposes DiffusionPipe, a synchronous pipeline…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Ye Tian , Zhen Jia , Ziyue Luo , Yida Wang , Chuan Wu

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse problems. However, training diffusion models in the pixel space are both data-intensive and computationally demanding, which restricts their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Bowen Song , Soo Min Kwon , Zecheng Zhang , Xinyu Hu , Qing Qu , Liyue Shen

Inference-time controllable generation is essential for real-world applications of unconditional diffusion models. However, most existing techniques focus on individual samples, struggling in applications that require the sample population…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hao Luan , See-Kiong Ng , Chun Kai Ling

Recent studies have demonstrated that the forward diffusion process is crucial for the effectiveness of diffusion models in terms of generative quality and sampling efficiency. We propose incorporating an analytical image attenuation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yuhang Huang , Zheng Qin , Xinwang Liu , Kai Xu

Prevailing Dataset Distillation (DD) methods leveraging generative models confront two fundamental limitations. First, despite pioneering the use of diffusion models in DD and delivering impressive performance, the vast majority of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Letian Zhou , Songhua Liu , Xinchao Wang

Diffusion models, the most popular generative paradigm so far, can inject conditional information into the generation path to guide the latent towards desired directions. However, existing text-to-image diffusion models often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Lichen Bai , Shitong Shao , Zikai Zhou , Zipeng Qi , Zhiqiang Xu , Haoyi Xiong , Zeke Xie

We introduce Posterior Distillation Sampling (PDS), a novel optimization method for parametric image editing based on diffusion models. Existing optimization-based methods, which leverage the powerful 2D prior of diffusion models to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Juil Koo , Chanho Park , Minhyuk Sung

Data imputation and data generation have important applications for many domains, like healthcare and finance, where incomplete or missing data can hinder accurate analysis and decision-making. Diffusion models have emerged as powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mario Villaizán-Vallelado , Matteo Salvatori , Carlos Segura , Ioannis Arapakis

Diffusion models are a remarkably effective way of learning and sampling from a distribution $p(x)$. In posterior sampling, one is also given a measurement model $p(y \mid x)$ and a measurement $y$, and would like to sample from $p(x \mid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Shivam Gupta , Ajil Jalal , Aditya Parulekar , Eric Price , Zhiyang Xun

Diffusion models with transformer architectures have demonstrated promising capabilities in generating high-fidelity images and scalability for high resolution. However, iterative sampling process required for synthesis is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yeongmin Kim , Sotiris Anagnostidis , Yuming Du , Edgar Schönfeld , Jonas Kohler , Markos Georgopoulos , Albert Pumarola , Ali Thabet , Artsiom Sanakoyeu

Efficient text-to-image generation remains a challenging task due to the high computational costs associated with the multi-step sampling in diffusion models. Although distillation of pre-trained diffusion models has been successful in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jeeyung Kim , Ze Wang , Qiang Qiu

Controllable music generation methods are critical for human-centered AI-based music creation, but are currently limited by speed, quality, and control design trade-offs. Diffusion Inference-Time T-optimization (DITTO), in particular,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Zachary Novack , Julian McAuley , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Nicholas Bryan

The search for refining 3D LiDAR data has attracted growing interest motivated by recent techniques such as supervised learning or generative model-based methods. Existing approaches have shown the possibilities for using diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Sander Elias Magnussen Helgesen , Kazuto Nakashima , Jim Tørresen , Ryo Kurazume

Diffusion models have become a powerful backbone for text-to-image generation, producing high-quality visuals from natural language prompts. However, when prompts involve multiple objects alongside global or local style instructions, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ankit Sanjyal

Diffusion models suffer from slow sample generation at inference time. Therefore, developing a principled framework for fast deterministic/stochastic sampling for a broader class of diffusion models is a promising direction. We propose two…

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

Source-free test-time adaptation (TTA) is appealing for mobile and wearable sensing because it enables on-device personalization from unlabeled test streams without centralizing private data. However, sensor-based human activity recognition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Changyu Li , Lu Wang , Ming Lei , Jiashen Liu , Yichen Zhang , Kaishun Wu , Fei Luo

Test-time adaptation (TTA) is a technique used to reduce distribution gaps between the training and testing sets by leveraging unlabeled test data during inference. In this work, we expand TTA to a more practical scenario, where the test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Chenyan Wu , Yimu Pan , Yandong Li , James Z. Wang

Diffusion models can synthesize realistic co-speech video from audio for various applications, such as video creation and virtual agents. However, existing diffusion-based methods are slow due to numerous denoising steps and costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Beijia Lu , Ziyi Chen , Jing Xiao , Jun-Yan Zhu