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Diffusion models have shown impressive results in generating high-quality conditional samples using guidance techniques such as Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG). However, existing methods often require additional training or neural function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kwanyoung Kim , Byeongsu Sim

Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural, we often aim to optimize downstream reward functions while…

Drift diffusion models (DDMs) have found widespread use in computational neuroscience and other fields. They model evidence accumulation in simple decision tasks as a stochastic process drifting towards a decision barrier. In models where…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-12 Sicheng Liu , Alexander Fengler , Michael J. Frank , Matthew T. Harrison

Diffusion models and flow matching have demonstrated remarkable success in text-to-image generation. While many existing alignment methods primarily focus on fine-tuning pre-trained generative models to maximize a given reward function,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Yidong Ouyang , Liyan Xie , Hongyuan Zha , Guang Cheng

Diffusion and flow-based generative models have achieved remarkable success in domains such as image synthesis, video generation, and natural language modeling. In this work, we extend these advances to weight space learning by leveraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Daniel Saragih , Deyu Cao , Tejas Balaji

Diffusion models have achieved impressive advancements in various vision tasks. However, these gains often rely on increasing model size, which escalates computational complexity and memory demands, complicating deployment, raising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yang Zhang , Er Jin , Wenzhong Liang , Yanfei Dong , Ashkan Khakzar , Philip Torr , Johannes Stegmaier , Kenji Kawaguchi

We propose a general variance reduction strategy for diffusion processes. Our approach does not require the knowledge of the measure that is sampled, which may indeed be unknown as for nonequilibrium dynamics in statistical physics. We show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Julien Roussel , Gabriel Stoltz

In response to the trade-off between control performance and computational burden hindering the deployment of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in power inverters, this paper presents a novel model-free control framework leveraging policy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Yang Yang , Chenggang Cui , Xitong Niu , Jiaming Liu , Chuanlin Zhang

The accurate modeling of semiconductor devices plays a critical role in the development of new technology nodes and next-generation devices. Semiconductor device designers largely rely on advanced simulation software to solve the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Roberto Riganti , Matteo G. C. Alasio , Enrico Bellotti , Luca Dal Negro

Though diffusion-based video generation has witnessed rapid progress, the inference results of existing models still exhibit unsatisfactory temporal consistency and unnatural dynamics. In this paper, we delve deep into the noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Tianxing Wu , Chenyang Si , Yuming Jiang , Ziqi Huang , Ziwei Liu

iffusion-based generative models increasingly rely on inference-time guidance, adding a drift term or reweighting mixture of experts, to improve sample quality on task-specific objectives. However, most existing techniques require repeated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Chenyang Wang , Weizhong Wang , Yinuo Ren , Jose Blanchet , Yiping Lu

Diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable success in generative modeling, yet their training dynamics across different noise levels remain highly imbalanced, which can lead to inefficient optimization and unstable learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Nanlong Sun , Lei Shi

Diffusion models have demonstrated significant promise in various generative tasks; however, they often struggle to satisfy challenging constraints. Our approach addresses this limitation by rethinking training-free loss-guided diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 William Huang , Yifeng Jiang , Tom Van Wouwe , C. Karen Liu

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative tools for modeling complex data distributions, yet their purely data-driven nature limits applicability in practical engineering and scientific problems where physical laws need to be…

The controllable generation of diffusion models aims to steer the model to generate samples that optimize some given objective functions. It is desirable for a variety of applications including image generation, molecule generation, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Owen Oertell , Shikun Sun , Yiding Chen , Jin Peng Zhou , Zhiyong Wang , Wen Sun

We investigate the relationship between the effective diffusivity and effective drift of a particle moving in a random medium. The velocity of the particle combines a white noise diffusion process with a local drift term that depends…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. S. Dean , I. T. Drummond , R. R. Horgan

Diffusion-based models have recently shown strong performance in trajectory planning, as they are capable of capturing diverse, multimodal distributions of complex behaviors. A key limitation of these models is their slow inference speed,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Grayson Lee , Minh Bui , Shuzi Zhou , Yankai Li , Mo Chen , Ke Li

Generative modeling of physical systems, such as molecules, requires learning distributions that are invariant under global symmetries, such as rotations in three-dimensional space. Equivariant diffusion and flow matching models can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Samir Darouich , Vinh Tong , Lluís Pastor-Pérez , Tanja Bien , Loay Mualem , Mathias Niepert

This book presents the core principles that have guided the development of diffusion models, tracing their origins and showing how diverse formulations arise from shared mathematical ideas. Diffusion modeling starts by defining a forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yang Song , Dongjun Kim , Yuki Mitsufuji , Stefano Ermon

Controlling the spatial and semantic structure of diffusion-generated images remains a challenge. Existing methods like ControlNet rely on handcrafted condition maps and retraining, limiting flexibility and generalization. Inversion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jiang Lin , Xinyu Chen , Song Wu , Zhiqiu Zhang , Jizhi Zhang , Ye Wang , Qiang Tang , Qian Wang , Jian Yang , Zili Yi