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Diffusion models (DMs) have revolutionized image generation, producing high-quality images with applications spanning various fields. However, their ability to create hyper-realistic images poses significant challenges in distinguishing…

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Text-to-image generation models have achieved remarkable capabilities in synthesizing images, but often struggle to provide fine-grained control over the output. Existing guidance approaches, such as segmentation maps and depth maps,…

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The three areas of realistic forward rendering, per-pixel inverse rendering, and generative image synthesis may seem like separate and unrelated sub-fields of graphics and vision. However, recent work has demonstrated improved estimation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Zheng Zeng , Valentin Deschaintre , Iliyan Georgiev , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Yiwei Hu , Fujun Luan , Ling-Qi Yan , Miloš Hašan

Multimodal variational autoencoders have demonstrated their ability to learn the relationships between different modalities by mapping them into a latent representation. Their design and capacity to perform any-to-any conditional and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Daniel Wesego , Pedram Rooshenas

In this paper, we extend the class of kernel methods, the so-called diffusion maps (DM) and ghost point diffusion maps (GPDM), to solve the time-dependent advection-diffusion PDE on unknown smooth manifolds without and with boundaries. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Qile Yan , Shixiao Willing Jiang , John Harlim

How can diffusion models process 3D geometries in a coarse-to-fine manner, akin to our multiscale view of the world? In this paper, we address the question by focusing on a fundamental biochemical problem of generating 3D molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Jiwoong Park , Yang Shen

We introduce a Monte Carlo integration-based Shooting and Bouncing Ray (SBR) algorithm for electromagnetic scattering, specifically targeting complex dielectric materials. Unlike traditional deterministic SBR methods, our approach is the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Samuel Audia , Dinesh Manocha , Matthias Zwicker

Deep generative models can generate high-fidelity audio conditioned on various types of representations (e.g., mel-spectrograms, Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC)). Recently, such models have been used to synthesize audio waveforms…

Diffusion-based text-to-image generation models trade latency for quality: small models are fast but generate lower-quality images, while large models produce better images but are slow. We present MoDM, a novel caching-based serving system…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuchen Xia , Divyam Sharma , Yichao Yuan , Souvik Kundu , Nishil Talati

We extend a recently developed method to solve semi-linear PDEs to the case of a degenerated diffusion. Being a pure Monte Carlo method it does not suffer from the so called curse of dimensionality and it can be used to solve problems that…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Xavier Warin

Recent months have witnessed rapid progress in 3D generation based on diffusion models. Most advances require fine-tuning existing 2D Stable Diffsuions into multi-view settings or tedious distilling operations and hence fall short of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Suyi Jiang , Haimin Luo , Haoran Jiang , Ziyu Wang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

Diffusion models have shown great results in image generation and in image editing. However, current approaches are limited to low resolutions due to the computational cost of training diffusion models for high-resolution generation. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Johannes Ackermann , Minjun Li

Autonomous driving demands high-quality LiDAR data, yet the cost of physical LiDAR sensors presents a significant scaling-up challenge. While recent efforts have explored deep generative models to address this issue, they often consume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Qianjiang Hu , Zhimin Zhang , Wei Hu

Diffusion models (DMs) are capable of generating remarkably high-quality samples by iteratively denoising a random vector, a process that corresponds to moving along the probability flow ordinary differential equation (PF ODE).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Liangchen Li , Jiajun He

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for generative modelling of images. In this paper, we present a novel semantic segmentation method based on diffusion models. By modifying the training and sampling scheme, we show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Julia Wolleb , Robin Sandkühler , Florentin Bieder , Philippe Valmaggia , Philippe C. Cattin

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently shown outstanding capabilities in modeling complex image distributions, making them expressive image priors for solving Bayesian inverse problems. However, most existing DM-based methods rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Zihui Wu , Yu Sun , Yifan Chen , Bingliang Zhang , Yisong Yue , Katherine L. Bouman

The field of photorealistic 3D avatar reconstruction and generation has garnered significant attention in recent years; however, animating such avatars remains challenging. Recent advances in diffusion models have notably enhanced the…

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

We provide a pedagogical introduction to the two main variants of real-space quantum Monte Carlo methods for electronic-structure calculations: variational Monte Carlo (VMC) and diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC). Assuming no prior knowledge on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 Julien Toulouse , Roland Assaraf , C. J. Umrigar

Large-scale text-to-image models that can generate high-quality and diverse images based on textual prompts have shown remarkable success. These models aim ultimately to create complex scenes, and addressing the challenge of multi-subject…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Barak Battash , Amit Rozner , Lior Wolf , Ofir Lindenbaum