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Image denoising is a classical signal processing problem that has received significant interest within the image processing community during the past two decades. Most of the algorithms for image denoising has focused on the paradigm of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Varuna De Silva

The success of denoising diffusion models raises important questions regarding their generalisation behaviour, particularly in high-dimensional settings. Notably, it has been shown that when training and sampling are performed perfectly,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-08 Tyler Farghly , Patrick Rebeschini , George Deligiannidis , Arnaud Doucet

In high dimensional settings, density estimation algorithms rely crucially on their inductive bias. Despite recent empirical success, the inductive bias of deep generative models is not well understood. In this paper we propose a framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Shengjia Zhao , Hongyu Ren , Arianna Yuan , Jiaming Song , Noah Goodman , Stefano Ermon

Diffusion models excel at generating high-quality, diverse samples, yet they risk memorizing training data when overfit to the training objective. We analyze the distinctions between memorization and generalization in diffusion models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Zekai Zhang , Xiao Li , Xiang Li , Lianghe Shi , Meng Wu , Molei Tao , Qing Qu

Diffusion models are powerful generative models that produce high-quality samples from complex data. While their infinite-data behavior is well understood, their generalization with finite data remains less clear. Classical learning theory…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-02 Claudia Merger , Sebastian Goldt

Image denoising methods must effectively model, implicitly or explicitly, the vast diversity of patterns and textures that occur in natural images. This is challenging, even for modern methods that leverage deep neural networks trained to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Zhihao Xia , Ayan Chakrabarti

Real-world image denoising is an extremely important image processing problem, which aims to recover clean images from noisy images captured in natural environments. In recent years, diffusion models have achieved very promising results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Cheng Yang , Lijing Liang , Zhixun Su

A central question of machine learning is how deep nets manage to learn tasks in high dimensions. An appealing hypothesis is that they achieve this feat by building a representation of the data where information irrelevant to the task is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Umberto M. Tomasini , Leonardo Petrini , Francesco Cagnetta , Matthieu Wyart

Image denoising is an essential tool in computational photography. Standard denoising techniques, which use deep neural networks at their core, require pairs of clean and noisy images for its training. If we do not possess the clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 David Honzátko , Siavash A. Bigdeli , Engin Türetken , L. Andrea Dunbar

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as a dominant approach for image generation, however they still suffer from slow convergence in training and color shift issues in sampling. In this paper, we identify that these obstacles can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hu Yu , Li Shen , Jie Huang , Hongsheng Li , Feng Zhao

Novel diffusion models can synthesize photo-realistic images with integrated high-quality text. Surprisingly, we demonstrate through attention activation patching that only less than $1$% of diffusion models' parameters, all contained in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Łukasz Staniszewski , Bartosz Cywiński , Franziska Boenisch , Kamil Deja , Adam Dziedzic

Recent empirical studies have demonstrated that diffusion models can effectively learn the image distribution and generate new samples. Remarkably, these models can achieve this even with a small number of training samples despite a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Peng Wang , Huijie Zhang , Zekai Zhang , Siyi Chen , Yi Ma , Qing Qu

Nonlocal neural networks have been proposed and shown to be effective in several computer vision tasks, where the nonlocal operations can directly capture long-range dependencies in the feature space. In this paper, we study the nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Yunzhe Tao , Qi Sun , Qiang Du , Wei Liu

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

Deep Belief Networks which are hierarchical generative models are effective tools for feature representation and extraction. Furthermore, DBNs can be used in numerous aspects of Machine Learning such as image denoising. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-03 Mohammad Ali Keyvanrad , Mohammad Pezeshki , Mohammad Ali Homayounpour

Understanding how feature learning affects generalization is among the foremost goals of modern deep learning theory. Here, we study how the ability to learn representations affects the generalization performance of a simple class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth , William L. Tong , Cengiz Pehlevan

The ultimate aim of image restoration like denoising is to find an exact correlation between the noisy and clear image domains. But the optimization of end-to-end denoising learning like pixel-wise losses is performed in a sample-to-sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel , Rui Huang

A major challenge in understanding the generalization of deep learning is to explain why (stochastic) gradient descent can exploit the network architecture to find solutions that have good generalization performance when using high capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Yifan Wu , Barnabas Poczos , Aarti Singh

Deep Generative Models are frequently used to learn continuous representations of complex data distributions using a finite number of samples. For any generative model, including pre-trained foundation models with Diffusion or Transformer…

Classical image denoising methods utilize the non-local self-similarity principle to effectively recover image content from noisy images. Current state-of-the-art methods use deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to effectively learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Junaid Malik , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj