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Diffusion models are a class of generative models that learn to synthesize samples by inverting a diffusion process that gradually maps data into noise. While these models have enjoyed great success recently, a full theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Raja Marjieh , Ilia Sucholutsky , Thomas A. Langlois , Nori Jacoby , Thomas L. Griffiths

Accurate modeling of robot dynamics is essential for model-based control, yet remains challenging under distributional shifts and real-time constraints. In this work, we formulate system identification as an in-context meta-learning problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Angelo Moroncelli , Matteo Rufolo , Gunes Cagin Aydin , Asad Ali Shahid , Loris Roveda

Diffusion-based models have achieved notable empirical successes in reinforcement learning (RL) due to their expressiveness in modeling complex distributions. Despite existing methods being promising, the key challenge of extending existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Dmitry Shribak , Chen-Xiao Gao , Yitong Li , Chenjun Xiao , Bo Dai

Data augmentation plays a pivotal role in enhancing and diversifying training data. Nonetheless, consistently improving model performance in varied learning scenarios, especially those with inherent data biases, remains challenging. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xiaoling Zhou , Wei Ye , Zhemg Lee , Rui Xie , Shikun Zhang

Recent advancements in image synthesis are fueled by the advent of large-scale diffusion models. Yet, integrating realistic object visualizations seamlessly into new or existing backgrounds without extensive training remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Phillip Mueller , Jannik Wiese , Ioan Craciun , Lars Mikelsons

Recent progress in generative AI, primarily through diffusion models, presents significant challenges for real-world deepfake detection. The increased realism in image details, diverse content, and widespread accessibility to the general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chaitali Bhattacharyya , Hanxiao Wang , Feng Zhang , Sungho Kim , Xiatian Zhu

Diffusion models have become increasingly popular for synthesizing high-quality samples based on training datasets. However, given the oftentimes enormous sizes of the training datasets, it is difficult to assess how training data impact…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-06 Zheng Dai , David K Gifford

Synthetic data generation has become an emerging tool to help improve the adversarial robustness in classification tasks since robust learning requires a significantly larger amount of training samples compared with standard classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yidong Ouyang , Liyan Xie , Guang Cheng

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative modeling, enabling unprecedented realism in image and video synthesis. This success has sparked interest in leveraging their representations for visual understanding tasks. While recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Pedro Vélez , Luisa F. Polanía , Yi Yang , Chuhan Zhang , Rishabh Kabra , Anurag Arnab , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi

Data scarcity in medical imaging poses significant challenges due to privacy concerns. Diffusion models, a recent generative modeling technique, offer a potential solution by generating synthetic and realistic data. However, questions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Abdullah al Nomaan Nafi , Md. Alamgir Hossain , Rakib Hossain Rifat , Md Mahabub Uz Zaman , Md Manjurul Ahsan , Shivakumar Raman

The advancements in generative modeling, particularly the advent of diffusion models, have sparked a fundamental question: how can these models be effectively used for discriminative tasks? In this work, we find that generative models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Mihir Prabhudesai , Tsung-Wei Ke , Alexander C. Li , Deepak Pathak , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Generative latent diffusion models have been established as state-of-the-art in data generation. One promising application is generation of realistic synthetic medical imaging data for open data sharing without compromising patient privacy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Salman Ul Hassan Dar , Arman Ghanaat , Jannik Kahmann , Isabelle Ayx , Theano Papavassiliu , Stefan O. Schoenberg , Sandy Engelhardt

Diffusion models are becoming increasingly popular in synthetic data generation and image editing applications. However, these models can amplify existing biases and propagate them to downstream applications. Therefore, it is crucial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Malsha V. Perera , Vishal M. Patel

Recent studies have shown that the denoising process in (generative) diffusion models can induce meaningful (discriminative) representations inside the model, though the quality of these representations still lags behind those learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Sihyun Yu , Sangkyung Kwak , Huiwon Jang , Jongheon Jeong , Jonathan Huang , Jinwoo Shin , Saining Xie

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative frameworks by progressively adding noise to data through a forward process and then reversing this process to generate realistic samples. While these models have achieved strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingzhuo Guo , Yu Zhang , Baixu Chen , Haoran Xu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

We introduce Diffusion Active Learning, a novel approach that combines generative diffusion modeling with data-driven sequential experimental design to adaptively acquire data for inverse problems. Although broadly applicable, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Luis Barba , Johannes Kirschner , Tomas Aidukas , Manuel Guizar-Sicairos , Benjamín Béjar

Recent breakthroughs in Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have revolutionized the field of visual synthesis due to their superior scalability. To facilitate DiTs' capability of capturing meaningful internal representations, recent works such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mengping Yang , Zhiyu Tan , Binglei Li , Xiaomeng Yang , Hesen Chen , Hao Li

The increasing reliance on large-scale datasets in machine learning poses significant privacy and ethical challenges, particularly in sensitive domains such as face recognition. Synthetic data generation offers a promising alternative;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Parsa Rahimi , Damien Teney , Sebastien Marcel

Generative foundation models like Stable Diffusion comprise a diverse spectrum of knowledge in computer vision with the potential for transfer learning, e.g., via generating data to train student models for downstream tasks. This could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Leonhard Hennicke , Christian Medeiros Adriano , Holger Giese , Jan Mathias Koehler , Lukas Schott

Personalizing diffusion models using limited data presents significant challenges, including overfitting, loss of prior knowledge, and degradation of text alignment. Overfitting leads to shifts in the noise prediction distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 JungWoo Chae , Jiyoon Kim , JaeWoong Choi , Kyungyul Kim , Sangheum Hwang