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Graph generative models can be classified into two prominent families: one-shot models, which generate a graph in one go, and sequential models, which generate a graph by successive additions of nodes and edges. Ideally, between these two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Samuel Cognolato , Alessandro Sperduti , Luciano Serafini

Diffusion models are now the undisputed state-of-the-art for image generation and image restoration. However, they require large amounts of computational power for training and inference. In this paper, we propose lightweight diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Nicolas Cherel , Andrés Almansa , Yann Gousseau , Alasdair Newson

We present a masked-guided approach for a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) trained to generate and inpaint realistic radio galaxy images. The inpainting capability is particularly relevant for reconstructing incomplete…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-26 Rémi Poitevineau , Emma Tolley , Verlon Etsebeth

Diffusion and flow models achieve high generative quality but remain computationally expensive due to slow multi-step sampling. Distillation methods accelerate them by training fast student generators, yet most existing objectives lack a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yuanzhi Zhu , Eleftherios Tsonis , Lucas Degeorge , Vicky Kalogeiton

Diffusion models have become a popular choice for human motion synthesis due to their powerful generative capabilities. However, their high computational complexity and large sampling steps pose challenges for real-time applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Lei Jiang , Ye Wei , Hao Ni

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) are a recent family of generative models that achieve state-of-the-art results. In order to obtain class-conditional generation, it was suggested to guide the diffusion process by gradients…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Bahjat Kawar , Roy Ganz , Michael Elad

Diffusion models have recently brought a powerful revolution in image generation. Despite showing impressive generative capabilities, most of these models rely on the current sample to denoise the next one, possibly resulting in denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yurui Qian , Qi Cai , Yingwei Pan , Yehao Li , Ting Yao , Qibin Sun , Tao Mei

Diffusion-based generative models (DBGMs) perturb data to a target noise distribution and reverse this process to generate samples. The choice of noising process, or inference diffusion process, affects both likelihoods and sample quality.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Raghav Singhal , Mark Goldstein , Rajesh Ranganath

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative tools, rivaling GANs in sample quality and mirroring the likelihood scores of autoregressive models. A subset of these models, exemplified by DDIMs, exhibit an inherent asymmetry: they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yixuan Wang , Shuangyin Li

While diffusion distillation has enabled one-step generation through methods like Variational Score Distillation, adapting distilled models to emerging new controls -- such as novel structural constraints or latest user preferences --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yihong Luo , Tianyang Hu , Yifan Song , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Jing Tang

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) offer a promising parallel generation paradigm but suffer from slow inference due to numerous refinement steps and the inability to use standard KV caching. We introduce CDLM (Consistency Diffusion Language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Minseo Kim , Chenfeng Xu , Coleman Hooper , Harman Singh , Ben Athiwaratkun , Ce Zhang , Kurt Keutzer , Amir Gholami

Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have made significant strides in high-quality image generation. However, the multi-step denoising process often results in considerable computational overhead, impeding deployment on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yu-Shan Tai , An-Yeu , Wu

While diffusion models effectively generate remarkable synthetic images, a key limitation is the inference inefficiency, requiring numerous sampling steps. To accelerate inference and maintain high-quality synthesis, teacher-student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Chi Hong , Jiyue Huang , Robert Birke , Dick Epema , Stefanie Roos , Lydia Y. Chen

Robot manipulation has increasingly adopted data-driven generative policy frameworks, yet the field faces a persistent trade-off: diffusion models suffer from high inference latency, while flow-based methods often require complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Han Fang , Yize Huang , Yuheng Zhao , Paul Weng , Xiao Li , Yutong Ban

Diffusion models are the go-to method for Text-to-Image generation, but their iterative denoising processes has high inference latency. Quantization reduces compute time by using lower bitwidths, but applies a fixed precision across all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Basile Lewandowski , Simon Kurz , Aditya Shankar , Robert Birke , Jian-Jia Chen , Lydia Y. Chen

We present a new method for making diffusion models faster to sample. The method distills many-step diffusion models into few-step models by matching conditional expectations of the clean data given noisy data along the sampling trajectory.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Tim Salimans , Thomas Mensink , Jonathan Heek , Emiel Hoogeboom

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) (Ho et al. 2020) have shown impressive results on image and waveform generation in continuous state spaces. Here, we introduce Discrete Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (D3PMs),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Jacob Austin , Daniel D. Johnson , Jonathan Ho , Daniel Tarlow , Rianne van den Berg

Recent advances in imaging and high-performance computing have made it possible to image the entire human brain at the cellular level. This is the basis to study the multi-scale architecture of the brain regarding its subdivision into brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Jan-Oliver Kropp , Christian Schiffer , Katrin Amunts , Timo Dickscheid

We introduce relative and absolute position matching (RAPM), a diffusion distillation method resulting in high quality generation that can be trained efficiently on a single GPU. Recent diffusion distillation research has achieved excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Guoqiang Zhang , Kenta Niwa , J. P. Lewis , Cedric Mesnage , W. Bastiaan Kleijn

New technologies such as Rectified Flow and Flow Matching have significantly improved the performance of generative models in the past two years, especially in terms of control accuracy, generation quality, and generation efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Sen Fang , Hongbin Zhong , Yalin Feng , Yanxin Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas
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