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Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis tasks as well as density estimation. Applied in the latent space of a powerful pretrained autoencoder (LDM), their immense computational requirements can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jeremias Traub

Although learning-based image restoration methods have made significant progress, they still struggle with limited generalization to real-world scenarios due to the substantial domain gap caused by training on synthetic data. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Kang Liao , Zongsheng Yue , Zhouxia Wang , Chen Change Loy

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in synthesizing diverse content. However, despite their high-quality outputs, these models often perpetuate social biases, including those related to gender and race. These biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yingdong Shi , Changming Li , Yifan Wang , Yongxiang Zhao , Anqi Pang , Sibei Yang , Jingyi Yu , Kan Ren

Neural networks pose a privacy risk due to their propensity to memorise and leak training data. We show that unique features occurring only once in training data are memorised by discriminative multi-layer perceptrons and convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 John Hartley , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Advances in microscopy imaging enable researchers to visualize structures at the nanoscale level thereby unraveling intricate details of biological organization. However, challenges such as image noise, photobleaching of fluorophores, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Pamela Osuna-Vargas , Maren H. Wehrheim , Lucas Zinz , Johanna Rahm , Ashwin Balakrishnan , Alexandra Kaminer , Mike Heilemann , Matthias Kaschube

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have achieved great success in image generation but suffer from high inference latency due to their iterative denoising nature. Motivated by the evolving feature dynamics across the denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Haodong He , Yuan Gao , Weizhong Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

We explore the connection between deep learning and information theory through the paradigm of diffusion models. A diffusion model converts noise into structured data by reinstating, imperfectly, information that is erased when data was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Akhil Premkumar

We examine the role of memorization in deep learning, drawing connections to capacity, generalization, and adversarial robustness. While deep networks are capable of memorizing noise data, our results suggest that they tend to prioritize…

Language Models (LMs) are prone to memorizing parts of their data during training and unintentionally emitting them at generation time, raising concerns about privacy leakage and disclosure of intellectual property. While previous research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Stefan Arnold

Deep learning models are known to overfit and memorize spurious features in the training dataset. While numerous empirical studies have aimed at understanding this phenomenon, a rigorous theoretical framework to quantify it is still…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-20 Simone Bombari , Marco Mondelli

Model-based reinforcement learning methods often use learning only for the purpose of estimating an approximate dynamics model, offloading the rest of the decision-making work to classical trajectory optimizers. While conceptually simple,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Michael Janner , Yilun Du , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Sergey Levine

Overfitting negatively impacts the generalization ability of deep neural networks (DNNs) in both natural and adversarial training. Existing methods struggle to consistently address different types of overfitting, typically designing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Runqi Lin , Chaojian Yu , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu

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

Retail photography imposes specific requirements on images. For instance, images may need uniform background colors, consistent model poses, centered products, and consistent lighting. Minor deviations from these standards impact a site's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Jeffrey Zhang , Shao-Yu Chang , Kedan Li , David Forsyth

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative frameworks by progressively adding noise to data through a forward process and then reversing this process to generate realistic samples. While these models have achieved strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingzhuo Guo , Yu Zhang , Baixu Chen , Haoran Xu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but they remain vulnerable to memorization -- reproducing training data rather than generating novel outputs. This not only limits their creative potential but also…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-10 Zeqi Ye , Qijie Zhu , Molei Tao , Minshuo Chen

Diffusion models have transformed image synthesis through iterative denoising, by defining trajectories from noise to coherent data. While their capabilities are widely celebrated, a critical challenge remains unaddressed: ensuring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Andreas Floros , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Pier Luigi Dragotti

Understanding what and how neural networks memorize during training is crucial, both from the perspective of unintentional memorization of potentially sensitive information and from the standpoint of effective knowledge acquisition for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yuxin Wen , Yangsibo Huang , Tom Goldstein , Ravi Kumar , Badih Ghazi , Chiyuan Zhang

Diffusion models, a family of generative models based on deep learning, have become increasingly prominent in cutting-edge machine learning research. With a distinguished performance in generating samples that resemble the observed data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Lequan Lin , Zhengkun Li , Ruikun Li , Xuliang Li , Junbin Gao

Large Language Models have received significant attention due to their abilities to solve a wide range of complex tasks. However these models memorize a significant proportion of their training data, posing a serious threat when disclosed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jérémie Dentan , Davide Buscaldi , Aymen Shabou , Sonia Vanier