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Discrete graph generation has emerged as a powerful paradigm for modeling graph data, often relying on highly expressive neural backbones such as transformers or higher-order architectures. We revisit this design choice by introducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Jay Revolinsky , Harry Shomer , Jiliang Tang

Node representations, or embeddings, are low-dimensional vectors that capture node properties, typically learned through unsupervised structural similarity objectives or supervised tasks. While recent efforts have focused on explaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Simone Piaggesi , André Panisson , Megha Khosla

High-dynamic-range (HDR) formats and displays are becoming increasingly prevalent, yet state-of-the-art image generators (e.g., Stable Diffusion and FLUX) typically remain limited to low-dynamic-range (LDR) output due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ronghuan Wu , Wanchao Su , Kede Ma , Jing Liao , Rafał K. Mantiuk

There has been a lot of recent interest in designing neural network models to estimate a distribution from a set of examples. We introduce a simple modification for autoencoder neural networks that yields powerful generative models. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Mathieu Germain , Karol Gregor , Iain Murray , Hugo Larochelle

Conventional physically based rendering (PBR) pipelines generate photorealistic images through computationally intensive light transport simulations. Although recent deep learning approaches leverage diffusion model priors with geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shenghao Zhang , Runtao Liu , Christopher Schroers , Yang Zhang

Nonlinear dimensional reduction with the manifold assumption, often called manifold learning, has proven its usefulness in a wide range of high-dimensional data analysis. The significant impact of t-SNE and UMAP has catalyzed intense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jungeum Kim , Xiao Wang

In electromagnetic inverse scattering, the goal is to reconstruct object permittivity using scattered waves. While deep learning has shown promise as an alternative to iterative solvers, it is primarily used in supervised frameworks which…

While originally designed for unidirectional generative modeling, decoder-only large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being adapted for bidirectional modeling. However, unidirectional and bidirectional models are typically trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Savya Khosla , Aditi Tiwari , Kushal Kafle , Simon Jenni , Handong Zhao , John Collomosse , Jing Shi

In recent years there has been increased interest in understanding the interplay between deep generative models (DGMs) and the manifold hypothesis. Research in this area focuses on understanding the reasons why commonly-used DGMs succeed or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Brendan Leigh Ross , Rasa Hosseinzadeh , Anthony L. Caterini , Jesse C. Cresswell

To gain insight into the mechanisms behind machine learning methods, it is crucial to establish connections among the features describing data points. However, these correlations often exhibit a high-dimensional and strongly nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Lorenzo Basile , Santiago Acevedo , Luca Bortolussi , Fabio Anselmi , Alex Rodriguez

This paper proposes a novel approach to regularize the \textit{ill-posed} and \textit{non-linear} blind image deconvolution (blind deblurring) using deep generative networks as priors. We employ two separate generative models --- one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Muhammad Asim , Fahad Shamshad , Ali Ahmed

We present Low Distortion Local Eigenmaps (LDLE), a manifold learning technique which constructs a set of low distortion local views of a dataset in lower dimension and registers them to obtain a global embedding. The local views are…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Dhruv Kohli , Alexander Cloninger , Gal Mishne

The manifold assumption for high-dimensional data assumes that the data is generated by varying a set of parameters obtained from a low-dimensional latent space. Deep generative models (DGMs) are widely used to learn data representations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Krithika Iyer , Riddhish Bhalodia , Shireen Elhabian

Efficient training strategies for large-scale diffusion models have recently emphasized the importance of improving discriminative feature representations in these models. A central line of work in this direction is representation alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Junno Yun , Yaşar Utku Alçalar , Mehmet Akçakaya

We address the problem of compressed sensing using a deep generative prior model and consider both linear and learned nonlinear sensing mechanisms, where the nonlinear one involves either a fully connected neural network or a convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Vinayak Killedar , Praveen Kumar Pokala , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

We propose a method to fuse frozen text-only large language models (LLMs) with pre-trained image encoder and decoder models, by mapping between their embedding spaces. Our model demonstrates a wide suite of multimodal capabilities: image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jing Yu Koh , Daniel Fried , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Objective. Standard Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction pipelines discard phase information captured during acquisition, despite evidence that it encodes tissue properties relevant to tumor diagnosis. Current machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Marco Schlimbach , Moritz Rempe , Jessica Mnischek , Lukas T. Rotkopf , Jens Weingarten , Jens Kleesiek , Kevin Kröninger

Low-field to high-field MRI synthesis has emerged as a cost-effective strategy to enhance image quality under hardware and acquisition constraints, particularly in scenarios where access to high-field scanners is limited or impractical.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zhenxuan Zhang , Peiyuan Jing , Ruicheng Yuan , Liwei Hu , Anbang Wang , Fanwen Wang , Yinzhe Wu , Kh Tohidul Islam , Zhaolin Chen , Zi Wang , Peter Lally , Guang Yang

Latent space geometry provides a rigorous and empirically valuable framework for interacting with the latent variables of deep generative models. This approach reinterprets Euclidean latent spaces as Riemannian through a pull-back metric,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-15 Stas Syrota , Pablo Moreno-Muñoz , Søren Hauberg

Deep Metric Learning (DML) methods have been proven relevant for visual similarity learning. However, they sometimes lack generalization properties because they are trained often using an inappropriate sample selection strategy or due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jorge Gonzalez-Zapata , Ivan Reyes-Amezcua , Daniel Flores-Araiza , Mauricio Mendez-Ruiz , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Andres Mendez-Vazquez