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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

Dynamical systems often exhibit the emergence of long-lived coherent sets, which are regions in state space that keep their geometric integrity to a high extent and thus play an important role in transport. In this article, we provide a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Ralf Banisch , Péter Koltai

In this paper, we present an approach to enhance and improve the current normal map rendering technique. Our algorithm is based on semi-discrete Optimal Mass Transportation (OMT) theory and has a solid theoretical base. The key difference…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Hui Zhao , Kehua Su , Ming Ma , Na Lei , Li Cui , Xianfeng Gu

A reflection mapping is a singular holomorphic mapping obtained by restricting the quotient mapping of a complex reflection group. We study the analytic structure of double point spaces of reflection mappings. In the case where the image is…

Density map is an effective visualization technique for depicting the scalar field distribution in 2D space. Conventional methods for constructing density maps are mainly based on Euclidean distance, limiting their applicability in urban…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Zezheng Feng , Haotian Li , Wei Zeng , Shuang-Hua Yang , Huamin Qu

Qualifying the discrepancy between 3D geometric models, which could be represented with either point clouds or triangle meshes, is a pivotal issue with board applications. Existing methods mainly focus on directly establishing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Siyu Ren , Junhui Hou , Xiaodong Chen , Hongkai Xiong , Wenping Wang

Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from severe noise and quantitative degradation. Diffusion-based denoising models achieve strong final reconstructions, yet their reverse trajectories are…

We present Manifold Diffusion Fields (MDF), an approach that unlocks learning of diffusion models of data in general non-Euclidean geometries. Leveraging insights from spectral geometry analysis, we define an intrinsic coordinate system on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Ahmed A. Elhag , Yuyang Wang , Joshua M. Susskind , Miguel Angel Bautista

Diffusion-based data augmentation (DiffDA) has emerged as a promising approach to improving classification performance under data scarcity. However, existing works vary significantly in task configurations, model choices, and experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zekun Li , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao , Dong Xu

We propose Parallelised Diffeomorphic Sampling-based Motion Planning (PDMP). PDMP is a novel parallelised framework that uses bijective and differentiable mappings, or diffeomorphisms, to transform sampling distributions of sampling-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Tin Lai , Weiming Zhi , Tucker Hermans , Fabio Ramos

Diffusion models have been successfully applied to robotics problems such as manipulation and vehicle path planning. In this work, we explore their application to end-to-end navigation -- including both perception and planning -- by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 L. Lao Beyer , S. Karaman

Recent empirical studies have demonstrated that diffusion models can effectively learn the image distribution and generate new samples. Remarkably, these models can achieve this even with a small number of training samples despite a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Peng Wang , Huijie Zhang , Zekai Zhang , Siyi Chen , Yi Ma , Qing Qu

Dimensionality Reduction (DR) methods are widely used to visualize high-dimensional data. One key task in DR-based analysis is discovering neighborhoods, which relies on analyzing the fine-grained local structure of a projection. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Diede P. M. van der Hoorn , Alessio Arleo , Fernando V. Paulovich

Domain generalization (DG) for object detection aims to enhance detectors' performance in unseen scenarios. This task remains challenging due to complex variations in real-world applications. Recently, diffusion models have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Boyong He , Yuxiang Ji , Qianwen Ye , Zhuoyue Tan , Liaoni Wu

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a family of methods that embed a given set of points into a simple, usually flat, domain. The points are assumed to be sampled from some metric space, and the mapping attempts to preserve the distances…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Yonathan Aflalo , Anastasia Dubrovina , Ron Kimmel

Color plays an important role in human visual perception, reflecting the spectrum of objects. However, the existing infrared and visible image fusion methods rarely explore how to handle multi-spectral/channel data directly and achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jun Yue , Leyuan Fang , Shaobo Xia , Yue Deng , Jiayi Ma

Diffusion models excel at creating visually-convincing images, but they often struggle to meet subtle constraints inherent in the training data. Such constraints could be physics-based (e.g., satisfying a PDE), geometric (e.g., respecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Berthy T. Feng , Ricardo Baptista , Katherine L. Bouman

Manifold learning techniques for nonlinear dimension reduction assume that high-dimensional feature vectors lie on a low-dimensional manifold, then attempt to exploit manifold structure to obtain useful low-dimensional Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-25 Michael W. Trosset , Gokcen Buyukbas

Cumulant mapping employs a statistical reconstruction of the whole by sampling its parts. The theory developed in this work formalises and extends ad hoc methods of `multi-fold' or `multi-dimensional' covariance mapping. Explicit formulae…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-11-06 Leszek J. Frasinski

Accurate dose distribution prediction is crucial in the radiotherapy planning. Although previous methods based on convolutional neural network have shown promising performance, they have the problem of over-smoothing, leading to prediction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Xin Liao , Zhenghao Feng , Jianghong Xiao , Xingchen Peng , Yan Wang