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Uniform-state discrete diffusion models hold the promise of fast text generation due to their inherent ability to self-correct. However, they are typically outperformed by autoregressive models and masked diffusion models. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Subham Sekhar Sahoo , Justin Deschenaux , Aaron Gokaslan , Guanghan Wang , Justin Chiu , Volodymyr Kuleshov

Diffusion probabilistic models have achieved enormous success in the field of image generation and manipulation. In this paper, we explore a novel paradigm of using the diffusion model and classifier guidance in the latent semantic space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Changhao Shi , Haomiao Ni , Kai Li , Shaobo Han , Mingfu Liang , Martin Renqiang Min

Imputing missing values in spatial-temporal traffic data is essential for intelligent transportation systems. Among advanced imputation methods, score-based diffusion models have demonstrated competitive performance. These models generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Xiaowei Mao , Huihu Ding , Yan Lin , Tingrui Wu , Shengnan Guo , Dazhuo Qiu , Feiling Fang , Jilin Hu , Huaiyu Wan

Diffusion models offer a robust framework for sampling from unnormalized probability densities, which requires accurately estimating the score of the noise-perturbed target distribution. While the standard Denoising Score Identity (DSI)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Khaled Kahouli , Romuald Elie , Klaus-Robert Müller , Quentin Berthet , Oliver T. Unke , Arnaud Doucet

Image completion is a challenging task, particularly when ensuring that generated content seamlessly integrates with existing parts of an image. While recent diffusion models have shown promise, they often struggle with maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Michael Felsberg , Dacheng Tao , Xuelong Li

Self-conditioning has been central to the success of continuous diffusion language models, as it allows models to correct previous errors. Yet its ability degrades precisely in the regime where diffusion is most attractive for deployment:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Dat Nguyen-Cong , Tung Kieu , Hoang Thanh-Tung

Diffusion models, widely recognized for their success in generative tasks, have not yet been applied to clustering. We introduce Clustering via Diffusion (CLUDI), a self-supervised framework that combines the generative power of diffusion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Roy Uziel , Irit Chelly , Oren Freifeld , Ari Pakman

Discrete diffusion models have recently shown significant progress in modeling complex data, such as natural languages and DNA sequences. However, unlike diffusion models for continuous data, which can generate high-quality samples in just…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Anji Liu , Oliver Broadrick , Mathias Niepert , Guy Van den Broeck

Autonomous (noise-agnostic) generative models, such as Equilibrium Matching and blind diffusion, challenge the standard paradigm by learning a single, time-invariant vector field that operates without explicit noise-level conditioning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan , Mauricio Delbracio , Peyman Milanfar

The remarkable capabilities of pretrained image diffusion models have been utilized not only for generating fixed-size images but also for creating panoramas. However, naive stitching of multiple images often results in visible seams.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yuseung Lee , Kunho Kim , Hyunjin Kim , Minhyuk Sung

We study causal discovery from observational data in linear Gaussian systems affected by \emph{mixed latent confounding}, where some unobserved factors act broadly across many variables while others influence only small subsets. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Amir Asiaee , Samhita Pal , James O'quinn , James P. Long

Generative AI has redefined artificial intelligence, enabling the creation of innovative content and customized solutions that drive business practices into a new era of efficiency and creativity. In this paper, we focus on diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Zihao Li , Hui Yuan , Kaixuan Huang , Chengzhuo Ni , Yinyu Ye , Minshuo Chen , Mengdi Wang

Diffusion models have become a leading paradigm in generative AI, with score estimation via denoising score matching as a central component. While recent theory provides strong statistical guarantees, it typically relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yinbin Han , Meisam Razaviyayn , Renyuan Xu

Prompt learning has garnered attention for its efficiency over traditional model training and fine-tuning. However, existing methods, constrained by inadequate theoretical foundations, encounter difficulties in achieving causally invariant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xinshu Li , Ruoyu Wang , Erdun Gao , Mingming Gong , Lina Yao

Employing a forward diffusion chain to gradually map the data to a noise distribution, diffusion-based generative models learn how to generate the data by inferring a reverse diffusion chain. However, this approach is slow and costly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-08 Huangjie Zheng , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

Diffusion frameworks have achieved comparable performance with previous state-of-the-art image generation models. Researchers are curious about its variants in discriminative tasks because of its powerful noise-to-image denoising pipeline.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Zhangxuan Gu , Haoxing Chen , Zhuoer Xu , Jun Lan , Changhua Meng , Weiqiang Wang

Federated learning aims at training models collaboratively across participants while protecting privacy. However, one major challenge for this paradigm is the data heterogeneity issue, where biased data preferences across multiple clients,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Huan Wang , Haoran Li , Huaming Chen , Jun Yan , Jiahua Shi , Jun Shen

Discrete diffusion models with absorbing processes have shown promise in language modeling. The key quantities to be estimated are the ratios between the marginal probabilities of two transitive states at all timesteps, called the concrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jingyang Ou , Shen Nie , Kaiwen Xue , Fengqi Zhu , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Chongxuan Li

Existing deep hashing approaches fail to fully explore semantic correlations and neglect the effect of linguistic context on visual attention learning, leading to inferior performance. This paper proposes a dual-stream learning framework,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Zijian Wang , Zheng Zhang , Yadan Luo , Zi Huang

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…