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Denoising diffusion models, a class of generative models, have garnered immense interest lately in various deep-learning problems. A diffusion probabilistic model defines a forward diffusion stage where the input data is gradually perturbed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Amirhossein Kazerouni , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Moein Heidari , Reza Azad , Mohsen Fayyaz , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for generative modeling on sequence data; however, the information-theoretic principles governing their reverse processes remain significantly less understood than those of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Alberto Foresti , Mustapha Bounoua , Giulio Franzese , Luca Ambrogioni , Pietro Michiardi

Diffusion autoencoders (DAs) are variants of diffusion generative models that use an input-dependent latent variable to capture representations alongside the diffusion process. These representations, to varying extents, can be used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Magdalena Proszewska , Nikolay Malkin , N. Siddharth

This work proposes a novel channel estimator based on diffusion models (DMs), one of the currently top-rated generative models. Contrary to related works utilizing generative priors, a lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 Benedikt Fesl , Michael Baur , Florian Strasser , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

Semantic communication (SemCom) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation wireless systems. Empowered by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, SemCom has achieved significant improvements in transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Shunpu Tang , Yuanyuan Jia , Qianqian Yang , Ruichen Zhang , Jihong Park , Dusit Niyato

Diffusion models have quickly become the go-to paradigm for generative modelling of perceptual signals (such as images and sound) through iterative refinement. Their success hinges on the fact that the underlying physical phenomena are…

Training-free guidance methods for continuous data have seen an explosion of interest due to the fact that they enable foundation diffusion models to be paired with interchangable guidance models. Currently, equivalent guidance methods for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-12 Thomas J. Kerby , Kevin R. Moon

Event cameras or dynamic vision sensors (DVS) record asynchronous response to brightness changes instead of conventional intensity frames, and feature ultra-high sensitivity at low bandwidth. The new mechanism demonstrates great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Bo Zhang , Yuqi Han , Jinli Suo , Qionghai Dai

We present a novel generative modeling method called diffusion normalizing flow based on stochastic differential equations (SDEs). The algorithm consists of two neural SDEs: a forward SDE that gradually adds noise to the data to transform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Qinsheng Zhang , Yongxin Chen

Diffusion models are highly effective at generating high-quality images but pose risks, such as the unintentional generation of NSFW (not safe for work) content. Although various techniques have been proposed to mitigate unwanted influences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Jing Wu , Trung Le , Munawar Hayat , Mehrtash Harandi

Industrial defect detection systems face critical limitations when confined to one-class anomaly detection paradigms, which assume uniform outlier distributions and struggle with data scarcity in real-world manufacturing environments. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Muhammad Aqeel , Federico Leonardi , Francesco Setti

Sparse expert models are a thirty-year old concept re-emerging as a popular architecture in deep learning. This class of architecture encompasses Mixture-of-Experts, Switch Transformers, Routing Networks, BASE layers, and others, all with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 William Fedus , Jeff Dean , Barret Zoph

Point processes model the distribution of random point sets in mathematical spaces, such as spatial and temporal domains, with applications in fields like seismology, neuroscience, and economics. Existing statistical and machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 David Lüdke , Enric Rabasseda Raventós , Marcel Kollovieh , Stephan Günnemann

Diffusion models (DMs) create samples from a data distribution by starting from random noise and iteratively solving a reverse-time ordinary differential equation (ODE). Because each step in the iterative solution requires an expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Eric Frankel , Sitan Chen , Jerry Li , Pang Wei Koh , Lillian J. Ratliff , Sewoong Oh

Depth completion is a pivotal challenge in computer vision, aiming at reconstructing the dense depth map from a sparse one, typically with a paired RGB image. Existing learning based models rely on carefully prepared but limited data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Shenglun Chen , Xinzhu Ma , Hong Zhang , Haojie Li , Zhihui Wang

Typically when designing distributed controllers it is assumed that the state-space model of the plant consists of sparse matrices. However, in the discrete-time setting, if one begins with a continuous-time model, the discretization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-28 James Anderson , Nikolai Matni , Yuxiao Chen

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in generating high-dimensional samples across domains such as vision, language, and the sciences. Although continuous-state diffusion models have been extensively studied both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Aadithya Srikanth , Mudit Gaur , Vaneet Aggarwal

Recently proposed generative models for discrete data, such as Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs), exploit conditional independence approximations to reduce the computational cost of popular Auto-Regressive Models (ARMs), at the price of some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-18 Hugo Lavenant , Giacomo Zanella

Diffusion models offer stable training and state-of-the-art performance for deep generative modeling tasks. Here, we consider their use in the context of multivariate subsurface modeling and probabilistic inversion. We first demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Roberto Miele , Niklas Linde