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Text-to-image diffusion models achieve impressive visual fidelity, yet they remain unreliable in multi-object generation. Despite extensive empirical evidence of these failures, the underlying causes remain unclear. We begin by asking how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yujin Jeong , Arnas Uselis , Iro Laina , Seong Joon Oh , Anna Rohrbach

Generative AI models, such as score-based diffusion models, have recently advanced the field of computational materials science by enabling the generation of new materials with desired properties. In addition, these models could also be…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Timo Reents , Arianna Cantarella , Marnik Bercx , Pietro Bonfà , Giovanni Pizzi

Masked diffusion models (MDM) are powerful generative models for discrete data that generate samples by progressively unmasking tokens in a sequence. Each token can take one of two states: masked or unmasked. We observe that token sequences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Chen-Hao Chao , Wei-Fang Sun , Hanwen Liang , Chun-Yi Lee , Rahul G. Krishnan

Diffusion generative models have emerged as a powerful framework for addressing problems in structural biology and structure-based drug design. These models operate directly on 3D molecular structures. Due to the unfavorable scaling of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-10 Ian Dunn , David Ryan Koes

Machine learning has demonstrated remarkable promise for solving the trajectory generation problem and in paving the way for online use of trajectory optimization for resource-constrained spacecraft. However, a key shortcoming in current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Julia Briden , Breanna Johnson , Richard Linares , Abhishek Cauligi

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

The inverse design of materials with specific desired properties, such as high-temperature superconductivity, represents a formidable challenge in materials science due to the vastness of chemical and structural space. We present a guided…

Denoising diffusion models are a novel class of generative algorithms that achieve state-of-the-art performance across a range of domains, including image generation and text-to-image tasks. Building on this success, diffusion models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Nic Fishman , Leo Klarner , Valentin De Bortoli , Emile Mathieu , Michael Hutchinson

Modern successes of diffusion models in learning complex, high-dimensional data distributions are attributed, in part, to their capability to construct diffusion processes with analytic transition kernels and score functions. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-01 Guan-Horng Liu , Tianrong Chen , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Molei Tao

Diffusion models, a powerful and universal generative AI technology, have achieved tremendous success in computer vision, audio, reinforcement learning, and computational biology. In these applications, diffusion models provide flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Minshuo Chen , Song Mei , Jianqing Fan , Mengdi Wang

Microstructure reconstruction, a major component of inverse computational materials engineering, is currently advancing at an unprecedented rate. While various training-based and training-free approaches are developed, the majority of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-28 Christian Düreth , Paul Seibert , Dennis Rücker , Stephanie Handford , Markus Kästner , Maik Gude

Stable diffusion models represent the state-of-the-art in data synthesis across diverse domains and hold transformative potential for applications in science and engineering, e.g., by facilitating the discovery of novel solutions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Stefano Zampini , Jacob K. Christopher , Luca Oneto , Davide Anguita , Ferdinando Fioretto

A thorough in situ characterization of materials at extreme conditions is challenging, and computational tools such as crystal structural search methods in combination with ab initio calculations are widely used to guide experiments by…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Maximilian Amsler , Vinay I. Hegde , Steven D. Jacobsen , Chris Wolverton

Forming a molecular candidate set that contains a wide range of potentially effective compounds is crucial to the success of drug discovery. While most databases and machine-learning-based generation models aim to optimize particular…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Yutong Xie , Ziqiao Xu , Jiaqi Ma , Qiaozhu Mei

Generative modeling within constrained sets is essential for scientific and engineering applications involving physical, geometric, or safety requirements (e.g., molecular generation, robotics). We present a unified framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kijung Jeon , Michael Muehlebach , Molei Tao

Geological parameterization entails the representation of a geomodel using a small set of latent variables and a mapping from these variables to grid-block properties such as porosity and permeability. Parameterization is useful for data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Guido Di Federico , Louis J. Durlofsky

Data-driven generative models excel in language and vision, but diffusion models often fail in constrained planning and design tasks, exhibiting severe constraint violations in engineering inverse design, molecular generation, multi-robot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zirui Zhao , Boye Niu , Harold Soh , David Hsu , Wee Sun Lee

Network optimization is a fundamental challenge in the Internet of Things (IoT) network, often characterized by complex features that make it difficult to solve these problems. Recently, generative diffusion models (GDMs) have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Ruihuai Liang , Bo Yang , Pengyu Chen , Xianjin Li , Yifan Xue , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , Yan Zhang , Mérouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Chau Yuen

Generative models trained on internet-scale data are capable of generating novel and realistic texts, images, and videos. A natural next question is whether these models can advance science, for example by generating novel stable materials.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Sherry Yang , KwangHwan Cho , Amil Merchant , Pieter Abbeel , Dale Schuurmans , Igor Mordatch , Ekin Dogus Cubuk

Hydrogen diffusion in metals and alloys plays an important role in the discovery of new materials for fuel cell and energy storage technology. While analytic models use hand-selected features that have clear physical ties to hydrogen…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-30 Grace M. Lu , Matthew Witman , Sapan Agarwal , Vitalie Stavila , Dallas R. Trinkle