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This paper presents a novel theoretical framework for understanding how diffusion models can learn disentangled representations. Within this framework, we establish identifiability conditions for general disentangled latent variable models,…

Diffusion models have seen rapid adoption in robotic imitation learning, enabling autonomous execution of complex dexterous tasks. However, action synthesis is often slow, requiring many steps of iterative denoising, limiting the extent to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Sigmund H. Høeg , Yilun Du , Olav Egeland

Image denoising is a typical ill-posed problem due to complex degradation. Leading methods based on normalizing flows have tried to solve this problem with an invertible transformation instead of a deterministic mapping. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , H. Yang

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in image generation tasks, including image editing and video creation, representing a good understanding of the physical world. On the other line, diffusion models have also shown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Yanjiang Guo , Yucheng Hu , Jianke Zhang , Yen-Jen Wang , Xiaoyu Chen , Chaochao Lu , Jianyu Chen

Recent advancements in diffusion-based imitation learning, which show impressive performance in modeling multimodal distributions and training stability, have led to substantial progress in various robot learning tasks. In visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hao Ren , Yiming Zeng , Zetong Bi , Zhaoliang Wan , Junlong Huang , Hui Cheng

As a class of generative artificial intelligence frameworks inspired by statistical physics, diffusion models have shown extraordinary performance in synthesizing complicated data distributions through a denoising process gradually guided…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Fangjun Hu , Guangkuo Liu , Yifan F. Zhang , Xun Gao

Video-diffusion models have recently set the standard in video generation, inpainting, and domain translation thanks to their training stability and high perceptual fidelity. Building on these strengths, we repurpose conditional video…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jaewan Park , Farid Ahmed , Kazuma Kobayashi , Seid Koric , Syed Bahauddin Alam , Iwona Jasiuk , Diab Abueidda

Representation learning is all about discovering the hidden modular attributes that generate the data faithfully. We explore the potential of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DM) in unsupervised learning of the modular attributes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zhongqi Yue , Jiankun Wang , Qianru Sun , Lei Ji , Eric I-Chao Chang , Hanwang Zhang

Diffusion Models (DMs) utilize an iterative denoising process to transform random noise into synthetic data. Initally proposed with a UNet structure, DMs excel at producing images that are virtually indistinguishable with or without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yuewei Yang , Jialiang Wang , Xiaoliang Dai , Peizhao Zhang , Hongbo Zhang

Recently, research on denoising diffusion models has expanded its application to the field of image restoration. Traditional diffusion-based image restoration methods utilize degraded images as conditional input to effectively guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zhenning Shi , Haoshuai Zheng , Chen Xu , Changsheng Dong , Bin Pan , Xueshuo Xie , Along He , Tao Li , Huazhu Fu

Video summarization aims to eliminate visual redundancy while retaining key parts of video to construct concise and comprehensive synopses. Most existing methods use discriminative models to predict the importance scores of video frames.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zirui Shang , Yubo Zhu , Hongxi Li , Shuo Yang , Xinxiao Wu

Learning interpretable representations of visual data is an important challenge, to make machines' decisions understandable to humans and to improve generalisation outside of the training distribution. To this end, we propose a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Marian Longa , João F. Henriques

Modeling sounds emitted from physical object interactions is critical for immersive perceptual experiences in real and virtual worlds. Traditional methods of impact sound synthesis use physics simulation to obtain a set of physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Kun Su , Kaizhi Qian , Eli Shlizerman , Antonio Torralba , Chuang Gan

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art image generation but remain computationally costly due to iterative denoising. Latent-space models like Stable Diffusion reduce overhead yet lose fine detail, while retrieval-augmented methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bilal Faye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

Denoising diffusion models are a powerful type of generative models used to capture complex distributions of real-world signals. However, their applicability is limited to scenarios where training samples are readily available, which is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ayush Tewari , Tianwei Yin , George Cazenavette , Semon Rezchikov , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Frédo Durand , William T. Freeman , Vincent Sitzmann

Due to the domain gap between real-world and synthetic hazy images, current data-driven dehazing algorithms trained on synthetic datasets perform well on synthetic data but struggle to generalize to real-world scenarios. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shijun Zhou , Xing Xie , Baojie Fan , Jiandong Tian

Intuitive physics understanding in video diffusion models plays an essential role in building general-purpose physically plausible world simulators, yet accurately evaluating such capacity remains a challenging task due to the difficulty in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jianhao Yuan , Fabio Pizzati , Francesco Pinto , Lars Kunze , Ivan Laptev , Paul Newman , Philip Torr , Daniele De Martini

Recently, foundational diffusion models have attracted considerable attention in image compression tasks, whereas their application to video compression remains largely unexplored. In this article, we introduce DiffVC, a diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Wenzhuo Ma , Zhenzhong Chen

Due to the fast inference and good performance, discriminative learning methods have been widely studied in image denoising. However, these methods mostly learn a specific model for each noise level, and require multiple models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Kai Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

Recent advances in diffusion models have revolutionized video generation, offering superior temporal consistency and visual quality compared to traditional generative adversarial networks-based approaches. While this emerging field shows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yimu Wang , Xuye Liu , Wei Pang , Li Ma , Shuai Yuan , Paul Debevec , Ning Yu