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A diffusion probabilistic model (DPM) is a generative model renowned for its ability to produce high-quality outputs in tasks such as image and audio generation. However, training DPMs on large, high-dimensional datasets such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Yunfei Wang , Ruoxi Jiang , Yingda Fan , Xiaowei Jia , Jens Eisert , Junyu Liu , Jin-Peng Liu

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved state-of-the-art generative performance but suffer from high sampling latency due to their sequential denoising nature. Existing solver-based acceleration methods often face significant image quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ruoyu Wang , Ziyu Li , Beier Zhu , Liangyu Yuan , Hanwang Zhang , Xun Yang , Xiaojun Chang , Chi Zhang

Diffusion models have shown remarkable success in text-to-image generation, making preference alignment for these models increasingly important. The preference labels are typically available only at the terminal of denoising trajectories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Dingyuan Shi , Yong Wang , Hangyu Li , Xiangxiang Chu

Despite the recent visually-pleasing results achieved, the massive computational cost has been a long-standing flaw for diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs), which, in turn, greatly limits their applications on resource-limited platforms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Xingyi Yang , Daquan Zhou , Jiashi Feng , Xinchao Wang

Diffusion models have been achieving state-of-the-art results across various generation tasks. However, a notable drawback is their sequential generation process, requiring long-sequence step-by-step generation. Existing methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Wenju Xu

Offline black-box optimization aims to discover novel designs with high property scores using only a static dataset, a task fundamentally challenged by the out-of-distribution (OOD) extrapolation problem. Existing approaches typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yonghan Yang , Ye Yuan , Zipeng Sun , Linfeng Du , Bowei He , Haolun Wu , Can Chen , Xue Liu

Diffusion models are a powerful generative framework, but come with expensive inference. Existing acceleration methods often compromise image quality or fail under complex conditioning when operating in an extremely low-step regime. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Jonas Kohler , Albert Pumarola , Edgar Schönfeld , Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Roshan Sumbaly , Peter Vajda , Ali Thabet

Existing customization methods require access to multiple reference examples to align pre-trained diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) with user-provided concepts. This paper aims to address the challenge of DPM customization when the only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jiachun Pan , Jun Hao Liew , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Jiashi Feng , Hanshu Yan

Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural, we often aim to optimize downstream reward functions while…

Diffusion models play a pivotal role in contemporary generative modeling, claiming state-of-the-art performance across various domains. Despite their superior sample quality, mainstream diffusion-based stochastic samplers like DDPM often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-08 Yuchen Wu , Yuxin Chen , Yuting Wei

There has been a flurry of activity around using pretrained diffusion models as informed data priors for solving inverse problems, and more generally around steering these models using reward models. Training-free methods like diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Aayush Karan , Kulin Shah , Sitan Chen

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have emerged as a powerful family of generative models that can yield high-fidelity samples and competitive log-likelihoods across a range of domains, including image and speech synthesis.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Daniel Watson , Jonathan Ho , Mohammad Norouzi , William Chan

Diffusion models have made substantial advances in image generation, yet models trained on large, unfiltered datasets often yield outputs misaligned with human preferences. Numerous methods have been proposed to fine-tune pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Fu-Yun Wang , Yunhao Shui , Jingtan Piao , Keqiang Sun , Hongsheng Li

Uniform-state discrete diffusion models excel at few-step generation and guidance due to their ability to self-correct, making them preferred over autoregressive or Masked diffusion models in these settings. However, their sampling quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Justin Deschenaux , Caglar Gulcehre , Subham Sekhar Sahoo

Diffusion-based image compression methods have achieved notable progress, delivering high perceptual quality at low bitrates. However, their practical deployment is hindered by significant inference latency and heavy computational overhead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yiwen Jia , Hao Wei , Yanhui Zhou , Chenyang Ge

Consistency Models (CM) (Song et al., 2023) accelerate score-based diffusion model sampling at the cost of sample quality but lack a natural way to trade-off quality for speed. To address this limitation, we propose Consistency Trajectory…

The choice of prior is central to solving ill-posed imaging inverse problems, making it essential to select one consistent with the measurements $y$ to avoid severe bias. In Bayesian inverse problems, this could be achieved by evaluating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Frederic Wang , Katherine L. Bouman

Diffusion models suffer from slow sample generation at inference time. Despite recent efforts, improving the sampling efficiency of stochastic samplers for diffusion models remains a promising direction. We propose Splitting Integrators for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Kushagra Pandey , Maja Rudolph , Stephan Mandt

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework in generative modeling, typically relying on optimizing neural networks to estimate the score function via forward SDE simulations. In this work, we propose an alternative method that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Yuehaw Khoo , Mathias Oster , Yifan Peng

Score-based diffusion models have emerged as powerful techniques for generating samples from high-dimensional data distributions. These models involve a two-phase process: first, injecting noise to transform the data distribution into a…

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