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We consider the problem of securely and robustly embedding covert messages into an image-based diffusion model's output. The sender and receiver want to exchange the maximum amount of information possible per diffusion sampled image while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Luke A. Bauer , Wenxuan Bao , Vincent Bindschaedler

This paper introduces UnDiff, a diffusion probabilistic model capable of solving various speech inverse tasks. Being once trained for speech waveform generation in an unconditional manner, it can be adapted to different tasks including…

Despite advances in deep probabilistic models, learning discrete latent representations remains challenging. This work introduces a novel method to improve inference in discrete Variational Autoencoders by reframing the inference problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 María Martínez-García , Grace Villacrés , David Mitchell , Pablo M. Olmos

Diffusion-based generative speech enhancement (SE) has recently received attention, but reverse diffusion remains time-consuming. One solution is to initialize the reverse diffusion process with enhanced features estimated by a predictive…

Discrete diffusion has emerged as a powerful framework for generative modeling in discrete domains, yet efficiently sampling from these models remains challenging. Existing sampling strategies often struggle to balance computation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yixiu Zhao , Jiaxin Shi , Feng Chen , Shaul Druckmann , Lester Mackey , Scott Linderman

Consistent improvement of image priors over the years has led to the development of better inverse problem solvers. Diffusion models are the newcomers to this arena, posing the strongest known prior to date. Recently, such models operating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ron Raphaeli , Sean Man , Michael Elad

Diffusion models have emerged as a key pillar of foundation models in visual domains. One of their critical applications is to universally solve different downstream inverse tasks via a single diffusion prior without re-training for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Morteza Mardani , Jiaming Song , Jan Kautz , Arash Vahdat

Latent diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images but lose the benefits of end-to-end modeling. They discard information during image encoding, require a separately trained decoder, and model an auxiliary distribution to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alan Baade , Eric Ryan Chan , Kyle Sargent , Changan Chen , Justin Johnson , Ehsan Adeli , Li Fei-Fei

Although recent speech processing technologies have achieved significant improvements in objective metrics, there still remains a gap in human perceptual quality. This paper proposes Diffiner, a novel solution that utilizes the powerful…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Masato Hirano , Ryosuke Sawata , Naoki Murata , Shusuke Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

There has been a lot of recent interest in designing neural network models to estimate a distribution from a set of examples. We introduce a simple modification for autoencoder neural networks that yields powerful generative models. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Mathieu Germain , Karol Gregor , Iain Murray , Hugo Larochelle

Error correction code (ECC) is an integral part of the physical communication layer, ensuring reliable data transfer over noisy channels. Recently, neural decoders have demonstrated their advantage over classical decoding techniques.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yoni Choukroun , Lior Wolf

Using diffusion models to solve inverse problems is a growing field of research. Current methods assume the degradation to be known and provide impressive results in terms of restoration quality and diversity. In this work, we leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Charles Laroche , Andrés Almansa , Eva Coupete

Tokenizing images into compact visual representations is a key step in learning efficient and high-quality image generative models. We present a simple diffusion tokenizer (DiTo) that learns compact visual representations for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Yinbo Chen , Rohit Girdhar , Xiaolong Wang , Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Ishan Misra

While latent diffusion models achieve impressive image editing results, their application to iterative editing of the same image is severely restricted. When trying to apply consecutive edit operations using current models, they accumulate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Gal Almog , Ariel Shamir , Ohad Fried

In a convergence of machine learning and biology, we reveal that diffusion models are evolutionary algorithms. By considering evolution as a denoising process and reversed evolution as diffusion, we mathematically demonstrate that diffusion…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanbo Zhang , Benedikt Hartl , Hananel Hazan , Michael Levin

Diffusion models are able to generate photorealistic images in arbitrary scenes. However, when applying diffusion models to image translation, there exists a trade-off between maintaining spatial structure and high-quality content. Besides,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shiqi Sun , Shancheng Fang , Qian He , Wei Liu

We propose a dynamic encoder transducer (DET) for on-device speech recognition. One DET model scales to multiple devices with different computation capacities without retraining or finetuning. To trading off accuracy and latency, DET…

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality samples, their latent variables typically lack semantic meaning and are not suitable for representation learning. Here, we propose InfoDiffusion, an algorithm that augments diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yingheng Wang , Yair Schiff , Aaron Gokaslan , Weishen Pan , Fei Wang , Christopher De Sa , Volodymyr Kuleshov

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as a dominant approach for image generation, however they still suffer from slow convergence in training and color shift issues in sampling. In this paper, we identify that these obstacles can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hu Yu , Li Shen , Jie Huang , Hongsheng Li , Feng Zhao

We propose a new encoder-decoder approach to learn distributed sentence representations that are applicable to multiple purposes. The model is learned by using a convolutional neural network as an encoder to map an input sentence into a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Zhe Gan , Yunchen Pu , Ricardo Henao , Chunyuan Li , Xiaodong He , Lawrence Carin
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