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We develop a new framework for learning variational autoencoders and other deep generative models that balances generative and discriminative goals. Our framework optimizes model parameters to maximize a variational lower bound on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Gabriel Hope , Madina Abdrakhmanova , Xiaoyin Chen , Michael C. Hughes , Michael C. Hughes , Erik B. Sudderth

Learning-based image denoising methods have been bounded to situations where well-aligned noisy and clean images are given, or samples are synthesized from predetermined noise models, e.g., Gaussian. While recent generative noise modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Geonwoon Jang , Wooseok Lee , Sanghyun Son , Kyoung Mu Lee

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown substantial progress in modeling complex distributions of data. These networks have received tremendous attention since they can generate implicit probabilistic models that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-25 Mehdi Ahmadi , Timothy Nest , Mostafa Abdelnaim , Thanh-Dung Le

Deep generative models, particularly denoising diffusion models, have achieved remarkable success in high-fidelity generation of architected microstructures with desired properties and styles. Nevertheless, these recent methods typically…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Weipeng Xu , Ziyuan Xie , Haoju Lin , Xinyu Wang , Guangjin Mou , Tianju Xue

Large-scale pre-trained language models have demonstrated strong capabilities of generating realistic text. However, it remains challenging to control the generation results. Previous approaches such as prompting are far from sufficient,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Xu Zou , Da Yin , Qingyang Zhong , Ming Ding , Hongxia Yang , Zhilin Yang , Jie Tang

Denoising diffusion models are a novel class of generative algorithms that achieve state-of-the-art performance across a range of domains, including image generation and text-to-image tasks. Building on this success, diffusion models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Nic Fishman , Leo Klarner , Valentin De Bortoli , Emile Mathieu , Michael Hutchinson

Machine learning methods are commonly used to solve inverse problems, wherein an unknown signal must be estimated from few indirect measurements generated via a known acquisition procedure. In particular, neural networks perform well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hannah Laus , Suzanna Parkinson , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Felix Krahmer , Rebecca Willett

Compressed sensing (CS) provides an elegant framework for recovering sparse signals from compressed measurements. For example, CS can exploit the structure of natural images and recover an image from only a few random measurements. CS is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yan Wu , Mihaela Rosca , Timothy Lillicrap

This paper proposes an iterative generative model for solving the automatic colorization problem. Although previous researches have shown the capability to generate plausible color, the edge color overflow and the requirement of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Kai Hong , Jin Li , Wanyun Li , Cailian Yang , Minghui Zhang , Yuhao Wang , Qiegen Liu

Generative learning generates high dimensional data based on low dimensional conditions, also called prompts. Therefore, generative learning algorithms are eligible for solving (Bayesian) inverse problems. In this article we compare a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Patrick Krüger , Patrick Materne , Werner Krebs , Hanno Gottschalk

Diffusion models are powerful tools for sampling from high-dimensional distributions by progressively transforming pure noise into structured data through a denoising process. When equipped with a guidance mechanism, these models can also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Saeed Mohseni-Sehdeh , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi , Tao Yu

Deep generative models have emerged as promising tools for detecting arbitrary anomalies in data, dispensing with the necessity for manual labelling. Recently, autoregressive transformers have achieved state-of-the-art performance for…

We study a new family of inverse problems for recovering representations of corrupted data. We assume access to a pre-trained representation learning network R(x) that operates on clean images, like CLIP. The problem is to recover the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Sriram Ravula , Georgios Smyrnis , Matt Jordan , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Diffusion models represent a class of generative models that produce data by denoising a sample corrupted by white noise. Despite the success of diffusion models in computer vision, audio synthesis, and point cloud generation, so far they…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-17 Kanta Masuki , Yuto Ashida

Score-based generative models have demonstrated significant practical success in data-generating tasks. The models establish a diffusion process that perturbs the ground truth data to Gaussian noise and then learn the reverse process to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ziqing Wen , Xiaoge Deng , Ping Luo , Tao Sun , Dongsheng Li

Inverse problems aim to determine parameters from observations, a crucial task in engineering and science. Lately, generative models, especially diffusion models, have gained popularity in this area for their ability to produce realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Gabriel della Maggiora , Luis Alberto Croquevielle , Nikita Deshpande , Harry Horsley , Thomas Heinis , Artur Yakimovich

Discrete-time diffusion-based generative models and score matching methods have shown promising results in modeling high-dimensional image data. Recently, Song et al. (2021) show that diffusion processes that transform data into noise can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Chin-Wei Huang , Jae Hyun Lim , Aaron Courville

We consider the problem of learning mixtures of generalized linear models (GLM) which arise in classification and regression problems. Typical learning approaches such as expectation maximization (EM) or variational Bayes can get stuck in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Hanie Sedghi , Majid Janzamin , Anima Anandkumar

Gradient-descent based iterative algorithms pervade a variety of problems in estimation, prediction, learning, control, and optimization. Recently iterative algorithms based on higher-order information have been explored in an attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Spencer McDonald , Yingnan Cui , Joseph E. Gaudio , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) are powerful generative models that have achieved unparalleled success in a number of generative tasks. In this work, we aim to build inductive biases into the training and sampling of diffusion models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Thomas Jiralerspong , Berton Earnshaw , Jason Hartford , Yoshua Bengio , Luca Scimeca