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Diffusion models are extensively used for modeling image priors for inverse problems. We introduce \emph{Diff-Unfolding}, a principled framework for learning posterior score functions of \emph{conditional diffusion models} by explicitly…

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Diffusion models achieve remarkable generation quality, yet face a fundamental challenge known as memorization, where generated samples can replicate training samples exactly. We develop a theoretical framework to explain this phenomenon by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xinyu Zhou , Jiawei Zhang , Stephen J. Wright

Generated images of score-based models can suffer from errors in their spatial means, an effect, referred to as a color shift, which grows for larger images. This paper investigates a previously-introduced approach to mitigate color shifts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Katherine Deck , Tobias Bischoff

While diffusion models show promising results in image editing given a target prompt, achieving both prompt fidelity and background preservation remains difficult. Recent works have introduced score distillation techniques that leverage the…

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generative modeling, yet their sampling procedures remain vulnerable to hallucinations-often stemming from inaccuracies in score approximation. In this work, we reinterpret…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yiqi Tian , Pengfei Jin , Mingze Yuan , Na Li , Bo Zeng , Quanzheng Li

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance in various generation tasks. However, their theoretical foundations fall far behind. This paper studies score approximation, estimation, and distribution recovery of diffusion models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Minshuo Chen , Kaixuan Huang , Tuo Zhao , Mengdi Wang

Inpainting based image compression approaches, especially linear and non-linear diffusion models, are an active research topic for lossy image compression. The major challenge in these compression models is to find a small set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-12 Yunjin Chen , René Ranftl , Thomas Pock

Multimodal large language models have made significant advancements in recent years, yet they still suffer from a common issue known as the "hallucination problem", in which the models generate textual descriptions that inaccurately depict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zhiyuan Zhao , Bin Wang , Linke Ouyang , Xiaoyi Dong , Jiaqi Wang , Conghui He

Score-based diffusion models are a highly effective method for generating samples from a distribution of images. We consider scenarios where the training data comes from a noisy version of the target distribution, and present an efficiently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-30 Dennis Elbrächter , Giovanni S. Alberti , Matteo Santacesaria

We investigate the approximation efficiency of score functions by deep neural networks in diffusion-based generative modeling. While existing approximation theories utilize the smoothness of score functions, they suffer from the curse of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Song Mei , Yuchen Wu

Vision Language models (VLMs) often hallucinate non-existent objects. Detecting hallucination is analogous to detecting deception: a single final statement is insufficient, one must examine the underlying reasoning process. Yet existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Abin Shoby , Ta Duc Huy , Tuan Dung Nguyen , Minh Khoi Ho , Qi Chen , Anton van den Hengel , Phi Le Nguyen , Johan W. Verjans , Vu Minh Hieu Phan

Recent advancements in diffusion models have been leveraged to address inverse problems without additional training, and Diffusion Posterior Sampling (DPS) (Chung et al., 2022a) is among the most popular approaches. Previous analyses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Tongda Xu , Xiyan Cai , Xinjie Zhang , Xingtong Ge , Dailan He , Ming Sun , Jingjing Liu , Ya-Qin Zhang , Jian Li , Yan Wang

The recent, impressive advances in algorithmic generation of high-fidelity image, audio, and video are largely due to great successes in score-based diffusion models. A key implementing step is score matching, that is, the estimation of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-12 Zehao Dou , Subhodh Kotekal , Zhehao Xu , Harrison H. Zhou

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful foundational models to solve a variety of tasks, they have also been shown to be prone to hallucinations, i.e., generating responses that sound confident but are actually incorrect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jiawei Li , Akshayaa Magesh , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

Score-based diffusion models have achieved incredible performance in generating realistic images, audio, and video data. While these models produce high-quality samples with impressive details, they often introduce unrealistic artifacts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Rui Lu , Runzhe Wang , Kaifeng Lyu , Xitai Jiang , Gao Huang , Mengdi Wang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable image generation quality surpassing previous generative models. However, a notable limitation of diffusion models, in comparison to GANs, is their difficulty in smoothly interpolating between two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Kaiwen Zhang , Yifan Zhou , Xudong Xu , Xingang Pan , Bo Dai

Generative models are prone to hallucinations: plausible but incorrect structures absent in the ground truth. This issue is problematic in image restoration for safety-critical domains such as medical imaging, industrial inspection, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Seunghoi Kim , Henry F. J. Tregidgo , Chen Jin , Matteo Figini , Daniel C. Alexander

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable potential in generating high-quality images. However, their tendency to replicate training data raises serious privacy concerns, particularly when the training datasets contain sensitive or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jingqi Xu , Chenghao Li , Yuke Zhang , Peter A. Beerel

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are increasingly adept at generating contextually detailed and coherent responses from visual inputs. However, their application in multimodal decision-making and open-ended generation is hindered by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Xintong Wang , Jingheng Pan , Liang Ding , Chris Biemann

In this paper, we develop a numerical multiscale method to solve the fractional Laplacian with a heterogeneous diffusion coefficient. When the coefficient is heterogeneous, this adds to the computational costs. Moreover, the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Donald L. Brown , Joscha Gedicke , Daniel Peterseim