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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Jamiree Harrison , Enoch Yeung

We propose Ambient Dataloops, an iterative framework for refining datasets that makes it easier for diffusion models to learn the underlying data distribution. Modern datasets contain samples of highly varying quality, and training directly…

Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) have been proven useful for learning non-linear dynamics of arbitrary trajectories. However, current NODE methods capture variations across trajectories only via the initial state value or by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Ilze Amanda Auzina , Çağatay Yıldız , Sara Magliacane , Matthias Bethge , Efstratios Gavves

In medical applications, weakly supervised anomaly detection methods are of great interest, as only image-level annotations are required for training. Current anomaly detection methods mainly rely on generative adversarial networks or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Julia Wolleb , Florentin Bieder , Robin Sandkühler , Philippe C. Cattin

In this work, we study Source-Free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation under corruption-induced domain shifts, where performance degradation is caused by natural image corruptions that go beyond additive noise, including blur, weather effects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Francesco Olivato , Cigdem Beyan , Vittorio Murino

Diffusion models now set the benchmark in high-fidelity generative sampling, yet they can, in principle, be prone to memorization. In this case, their learned score overfits the finite dataset so that the reverse-time SDE samples are mostly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Franck Gabriel , François Ged , Maria Han Veiga , Emmanuel Schertzer

We empirically study the effect of noise scheduling strategies for denoising diffusion generative models. There are three findings: (1) the noise scheduling is crucial for the performance, and the optimal one depends on the task (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ting Chen

Offline decision-making via diffusion models often produces trajectories that are misaligned with system dynamics, limiting their reliability for control. We propose Model Predictive Diffuser (MPDiffuser), a compositional diffusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Haldun Balim , Na Li , Yilun Du

Score diffusion methods can learn probability densities from samples. The score of the noise-corrupted density is estimated using a deep neural network, which is then used to iteratively transport a Gaussian white noise density to a target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Stéphane Mallat , Eero P. Simoncelli

In this paper, we introduce a denoising diffusion algorithm to discover microstructures with nonlinear fine-tuned properties. Denoising diffusion probabilistic models are generative models that use diffusion-based dynamics to gradually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Nikolaos N. Vlassis , WaiChing Sun

Diffusion-based planners have gained significant recent attention for their robustness and performance in long-horizon tasks. However, most existing planners rely on a fixed, pre-specified horizon during both training and inference. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ruijia Liu , Ancheng Hou , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

We conjecture that the inherent difference in generalisation between adaptive and non-adaptive gradient methods in deep learning stems from the increased estimation noise in the flattest directions of the true loss surface. We demonstrate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-17 Diego Granziol , Nicholas Baskerville

Diffusion models have demonstrated empirical successes in various applications and can be adapted to task-specific needs via guidance. This paper studies a form of gradient guidance for adapting a pre-trained diffusion model towards…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-17 Yingqing Guo , Hui Yuan , Yukang Yang , Minshuo Chen , Mengdi Wang

Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in generation problems over various domains including images, videos, text, and audio. A practical bottleneck of diffusion models is their sampling speed, due to the repeated evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Taehong Moon , Moonseok Choi , EungGu Yun , Jongmin Yoon , Gayoung Lee , Jaewoong Cho , Juho Lee

The traffic matrix estimation (TME) problem has been widely researched for decades of years. Recent progresses in deep generative models offer new opportunities to tackle TME problems in a more advanced way. In this paper, we leverage the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xinyu Yuan , Yan Qiao , Pei Zhao , Rongyao Hu , Benchu Zhang

This paper proposes a new unsupervised audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) approach that combines a diffusion-based audio-visual speech generative model with a non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) noise model. First, the diffusion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jean-Eudes Ayilo , Mostafa Sadeghi , Romain Serizel , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Multi-modal data-sets are ubiquitous in modern applications, and multi-modal Variational Autoencoders are a popular family of models that aim to learn a joint representation of the different modalities. However, existing approaches suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mustapha Bounoua , Giulio Franzese , Pietro Michiardi

We propose an end-to-end deep learning framework that comprehensively solves the inverse wave scattering problem across all length scales. Our framework consists of the newly introduced wide-band butterfly network coupled with a simple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Matthew Li , Laurent Demanet , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

Training a diffusion model approximates a map from a data distribution $\rho$ to the optimal score function $s_t$ for that distribution. Can we differentiate this map? If we could, then we could predict how the score, and ultimately the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Christopher Scarvelis , Justin Solomon

The emergence of transition phenomena between metastable states induced by noise plays a fundamental role in a broad range of nonlinear systems. The computation of the most probable paths is a key issue to understand the mechanism of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Yang Li , Jinqiao Duan , Xianbin Liu