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Diffusion models are an important tool for generative modelling, serving as effective priors in applications such as imaging and protein design. A key challenge in applying diffusion models for downstream tasks is efficiently sampling from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Alexander Denker , Shreyas Padhy , Francisco Vargas , Johannes Hertrich

We introduce the Fixed Point Diffusion Model (FPDM), a novel approach to image generation that integrates the concept of fixed point solving into the framework of diffusion-based generative modeling. Our approach embeds an implicit fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Xingjian Bai , Luke Melas-Kyriazi

Recent advances in diffusion models have driven remarkable progress in image generation. However, the generation process remains computationally intensive, and users often need to iteratively refine prompts to achieve the desired results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yi Wei , Shunpu Tang , Liang Zhao , Qiangian Yang

Missing value imputation in machine learning is the task of estimating the missing values in the dataset accurately using available information. In this task, several deep generative modeling methods have been proposed and demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Shuhan Zheng , Nontawat Charoenphakdee

This paper presents an evolvable conditional diffusion method such that black-box, non-differentiable multi-physics models, as are common in domains like computational fluid dynamics and electromagnetics, can be effectively used for guiding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhao Wei , Chin Chun Ooi , Abhishek Gupta , Jian Cheng Wong , Pao-Hsiung Chiu , Sheares Xue Wen Toh , Yew-Soon Ong

Generative models, particularly diffusion models, have made significant success in data synthesis across various modalities, including images, videos, and 3D assets. However, current diffusion models are computationally intensive, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yuanzhi Zhu , Hanshu Yan , Huan Yang , Kai Zhang , Junnan Li

Long-range human movement generation remains a central challenge in computer vision and graphics. Generating coherent transitions across semantically distinct motion domains remains largely unexplored. This capability is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haichao Wang , Alexander Okupnik , Yuxing Han , Gene Wen , Johannes Schneider , Kyriakos Flouris

Diffusion-based generative models are extremely effective in generating high-quality images, with generated samples often surpassing the quality of those produced by other models under several metrics. One distinguishing feature of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ashwini Pokle , Zhengyang Geng , Zico Kolter

Diffusion model-based image restoration (IR) aims to use diffusion models to recover high-quality (HQ) images from degraded images, achieving promising performance. Due to the inherent property of diffusion models, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Jiezhang Cao , Yue Shi , Kai Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Efficient inference is a critical challenge in deep generative modeling, particularly as diffusion models grow in capacity and complexity. While increased complexity often improves accuracy, it raises compute costs, latency, and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Siu Hang Ho , Prasad Ganesan , Nguyen Duong , Daniel Schlabig

Beyond high-fidelity image synthesis, diffusion models have recently exhibited promising results in dense visual perception tasks. However, most existing work treats diffusion models as a standalone component for perception tasks, employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Shuhong Zheng , Zhipeng Bao , Ruoyu Zhao , Martial Hebert , Yu-Xiong Wang

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

Pretrained diffusion models and their outputs are widely accessible due to their exceptional capacity for synthesizing high-quality images and their open-source nature. The users, however, may face litigation risks owing to the models'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Chen Chen , Daochang Liu , Chang Xu

Recently, there has been a growing interest in generative models based on diffusions driven by the empirical robustness of these methods in generating high-dimensional photorealistic images and the possibility of using the vast existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Jairon H. N. Batista , Flávio B. Gonçalves , Yuri F. Saporito , Rodrigo S. Targino

This paper presents innovative enhancements to diffusion models by integrating a novel multi-resolution network and time-dependent layer normalization. Diffusion models have gained prominence for their effectiveness in high-fidelity image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Qihao Liu , Zhanpeng Zeng , Ju He , Qihang Yu , Xiaohui Shen , Liang-Chieh Chen

Recovering degraded low-resolution text images is challenging, especially for Chinese text images with complex strokes and severe degradation in real-world scenarios. Ensuring both text fidelity and style realness is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yuzhe Zhang , Jiawei Zhang , Hao Li , Zhouxia Wang , Luwei Hou , Dongqing Zou , Liheng Bian

With the impressive generative capabilities of diffusion models, personalized content synthesis has emerged as the most highly anticipated. However, the large model sizes and iterative nature of inference make it difficult to deploy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Song Guo , Shiwen Mao , Dong In Kim , Merouane Debbah

Beyond estimating parameters of interest from data, one of the key goals of statistical inference is to properly quantify uncertainty in these estimates. In Bayesian inference, this uncertainty is provided by the posterior distribution, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Daniela de Albuquerque , John Pearson

The task of deducing three-dimensional molecular configurations from their two-dimensional graph representations holds paramount importance in the fields of computational chemistry and pharmaceutical development. The rapid advancement of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-09 Bobin Yang , Jie Deng , Zhenghan Chen , Ruoxue Wu

Test-time scaling through reward-guided generation remains largely unexplored for discrete diffusion models despite its potential as a promising alternative. In this work, we introduce Iterative Reward-Guided Refinement (IterRef), a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sanghyun Lee , Sunwoo Kim , Seungryong Kim , Jongho Park , Dongmin Park