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Unsupervised learning has gained prominence in the big data era, offering a means to extract valuable insights from unlabeled datasets. Deep clustering has emerged as an important unsupervised category, aiming to exploit the non-linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Georgios Vardakas , Ioannis Papakostas , Aristidis Likas

Recent advances in diffusion models show promising potential to accelerate nonconvex problem solving by leveraging their multimodality. However, most existing diffusion-based optimization approaches rely on supervised learning and lack a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shutong Ding , Yimiao Zhou , Ke Hu , Xi Yao , Junchi Yan , Xiaoying Tang , Ye Shi

Diffusion models achieved unprecedented fidelity and diversity for synthesizing image, video, 3D assets, etc. However, subject mixing is an unresolved issue for diffusion-based image synthesis, particularly for synthesizing multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Weimin Qiu , Jieke Wang , Meng Tang

This paper presents an end-to-end neural architecture based on Diffusion Models for spatial puzzle solving, particularly jigsaw puzzle and room arrangement tasks. In the latter task, for instance, the proposed system "PuzzleFusion" takes a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sepidehsadat Hosseini , Mohammad Amin Shabani , Saghar Irandoust , Yasutaka Furukawa

Guided diffusion is a technique for conditioning the output of a diffusion model at sampling time without retraining the network for each specific task. One drawback of diffusion models, however, is their slow sampling process. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Suttisak Wizadwongsa , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

The solution of nonsymmetric but positive definite (NSPD) systems arising from advection-diffusion problems is an important research topic in science and engineering. Balancing domain decomposition by constraints with an adaptive coarse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Jie Peng , Shi Shu , Junxian Wang , Liuqiang Zhong

This study addresses the challenge of, without training or fine-tuning, controlling the global color aspect of images generated with a diffusion model. We rewrite the guidance equations to ensure that the outputs are closer to a known color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Tom Bordin , Thomas Maugey

Solving Sudoku puzzles is one of the most popular pastimes in the world. Puzzles range in difficulty from easy to very challenging; the hardest puzzles tend to have the most empty cells. The current paper explains and compares three…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-17 Eric C. Chi , Kenneth Lange

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have become a popular approach to conditional generation, due to their promising results and support for cross-modal synthesis. A key desideratum in conditional synthesis is to achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Ye Zhu , Yu Wu , Kyle Olszewski , Jian Ren , Sergey Tulyakov , Yan Yan

Discrete diffusion models have recently emerged as a promising alternative to the autoregressive approach for generating discrete sequences. Sample generation via gradual denoising or demasking processes allows them to capture hierarchical…

The paper concerns optimal control of discontinuous differential inclusions of the normal cone type governed by a generalized version of the Moreau sweeping process with control functions acting in both nonconvex moving sets and additive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Tan H. Cao , B. S. Mordukhovich

Sampling based on score diffusions has led to striking empirical results, and has attracted considerable attention from various research communities. It depends on availability of (approximate) Stein score functions for various levels of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-01 M. J. Wainwright

Neural network-based Combinatorial Optimization (CO) methods have shown promising results in solving various NP-complete (NPC) problems without relying on hand-crafted domain knowledge. This paper broadens the current scope of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zhiqing Sun , Yiming Yang

This paper is concerned with the popular Sudoku problem. We proposed a warm restart strategy for solving Sudoku puzzles, based on the sparse optimization technique. Furthermore, we defined a new difficulty level for Sudoku puzzles. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Yuchao Tang , Zhenggang Wu , Chuanxi Zhu

As large-scale theft of data from corporate servers is becoming increasingly common, it becomes interesting to examine alternatives to the paradigm of centralizing sensitive data into large databases. Instead, one could use cryptography and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Thomas Leaute , Boi Faltings

Diffusion models have achieved huge empirical success in data generation tasks. Recently, some efforts have been made to adapt the framework of diffusion models to discrete state space, providing a more natural approach for modeling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-15 Hongrui Chen , Lexing Ying

A weighted constraint satisfaction problem (WCSP) is a constraint satisfaction problem in which preferences among solutions can be expressed. Bucket elimination is a complete technique commonly used to solve this kind of constraint…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-16 José Enrique Gallardo , Carlos Cotta , Antonio José Fernández

Discrete diffusion models have seen a surge of attention with applications on naturally discrete data such as language and graphs. Although discrete-time discrete diffusion has been established for a while, only recently Campbell et al.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Lingxiao Zhao , Xueying Ding , Lijun Yu , Leman Akoglu

Controllable layout generation aims at synthesizing plausible arrangement of element bounding boxes with optional constraints, such as type or position of a specific element. In this work, we try to solve a broad range of layout generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Naoto Inoue , Kotaro Kikuchi , Edgar Simo-Serra , Mayu Otani , Kota Yamaguchi

We study the homogeneous Cauchy-Dirichlet Problem (CDP) for a nonlinear and nonlocal diffusion equation of singular type of the form $\partial_t u =-\mathcal{L} u^m$ posed on a bounded Euclidean domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Matteo Bonforte , Peio Ibarrondo , Mikel Ispizua