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Diffusion Models represent a significant advancement in generative modeling, employing a dual-phase process that first degrades domain-specific information via Gaussian noise and restores it through a trainable model. This framework enables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Benedikt Hartl , Yanbo Zhang , Hananel Hazan , Michael Levin

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) dominate high-quality image generation, yet integrating representation learning with generative modeling remains a challenge. We introduce a novel generative image modeling framework that seamlessly bridges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Theodoros Kouzelis , Efstathios Karypidis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

High-fidelity numerical simulations of chaotic, high dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems are computationally expensive, necessitating the development of efficient surrogate models. Most surrogate models for such systems are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Dibyajyoti Chakraborty , Hojin Kim , Romit Maulik

Current text-to-image (T2I) generation models struggle to align spatial composition with the input text, especially in complex scenes. Even layout-based approaches yield suboptimal spatial control, as their generation process is decoupled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zheyuan Liu , Munan Ning , Qihui Zhang , Shuo Yang , Zhongrui Wang , Yiwei Yang , Xianzhe Xu , Yibing Song , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang , Li Yuan

3D object generation from a single image involves estimating the full 3D geometry and texture of unseen views from an unposed RGB image captured in the wild. Accurately reconstructing an object's complete 3D structure and texture has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Hritam Basak , Hadi Tabatabaee , Shreekant Gayaka , Ming-Feng Li , Xin Yang , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Arnie Sen , Min Sun , Zhaozheng Yin

Learning from a large corpus of data, pre-trained models have achieved impressive progress nowadays. As popular generative pre-training, diffusion models capture both low-level visual knowledge and high-level semantic relations. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Chaofan Ma , Yuhuan Yang , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

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

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

Recent literature has effectively leveraged diffusion models trained on continuous variables as priors for solving inverse problems. Notably, discrete diffusion models with discrete latent codes have shown strong performance, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Naoki Murata , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Bac Nguyen , Stefano Ermon , Yuki Mitsufuji

We present an novel framework for efficiently and effectively extending the powerful continuous diffusion processes to discrete modeling. Previous approaches have suffered from the discrepancy between discrete data and continuous modeling.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yuxuan Gu , Xiaocheng Feng , Lei Huang , Yingsheng Wu , Zekun Zhou , Weihong Zhong , Kun Zhu , Bing Qin

Monocular depth estimation within the diffusion-denoising paradigm demonstrates impressive generalization ability but suffers from low inference speed. Recent methods adopt a single-step deterministic paradigm to improve inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Ziyang Song , Zerong Wang , Bo Li , Hao Zhang , Ruijie Zhu , Li Liu , Peng-Tao Jiang , Tianzhu Zhang

With the success of image generation, generative diffusion models are increasingly adopted for discriminative tasks, as pixel generation provides a unified perception interface. However, directly repurposing the generative denoising process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ziqi Pang , Xin Xu , Yu-Xiong Wang

We present an architecture which lets us train deep, directed generative models with many layers of latent variables. We include deterministic paths between all latent variables and the generated output, and provide a richer set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Philip Bachman

While perspective is a well-studied topic in art, it is generally taken for granted in images. However, for the recent wave of high-quality image synthesis methods such as latent diffusion models, perspective accuracy is not an explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rishi Upadhyay , Howard Zhang , Yunhao Ba , Ethan Yang , Blake Gella , Sicheng Jiang , Alex Wong , Achuta Kadambi

High-level autonomous driving requires motion planners capable of modeling multimodal future uncertainties while remaining robust in closed-loop interactions. Although diffusion-based planners are effective at modeling complex trajectory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hao Gao , Shaoyu Chen , Yifan Zhu , Yuehao Song , Wenyu Liu , Qian Zhang , Xinggang Wang

Deep generative models have garnered significant attention in low-level vision tasks due to their generative capabilities. Among them, diffusion model-based solutions, characterized by a forward diffusion process and a reverse denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Chunming He , Yuqi Shen , Chengyu Fang , Fengyang Xiao , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li

Continuous diffusion and flow models are attractive for non-autoregressive text generation because they can update all positions in parallel. A major difficulty is the interface between continuous latent states and discrete tokens. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 De Shuai Zhang

In this paper, we propose \textbf{Iris}, a deterministic framework for Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) that integrates real-world priors into the diffusion model. Conventional feed-forward methods rely on massive training data, yet still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Xinhao Cai , Gensheng Pei , Zeren Sun , Yazhou Yao , Fumin Shen , Wenguan Wang

Classifier guidance -- using the gradients of an image classifier to steer the generations of a diffusion model -- has the potential to dramatically expand the creative control over image generation and editing. However, currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Bram Wallace , Akash Gokul , Stefano Ermon , Nikhil Naik