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Accelerated diffusion models hold the potential to significantly enhance the efficiency of standard diffusion processes. Theoretically, these models have been shown to achieve faster convergence rates than the standard $\mathcal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yuchen Liang , Peizhong Ju , Yingbin Liang , Ness Shroff

In this paper, we study the problem of learning multi-dimensional Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs), with a specific focus on model order selection and efficient mixing distribution estimation. We first establish an information-theoretic lower…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Xinyu Liu , Hai Zhang

Low-light image enhancement is a classical computer vision problem aiming to recover normal-exposure images from low-light images. However, convolutional neural networks commonly used in this field are good at sampling low-frequency local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yunliang Zhuang , Zhuoran Zheng , Chen Lyu

Understanding transition pathways between two meta-stable states of a molecular system is crucial to advance drug discovery and material design. However, unbiased molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are computationally infeasible because of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Kiyoung Seong , Seonghyun Park , Seonghwan Kim , Woo Youn Kim , Sungsoo Ahn

The past few years have witnessed the great success of Diffusion models~(DMs) in generating high-fidelity samples in generative modeling tasks. A major limitation of the DM is its notoriously slow sampling procedure which normally requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Qinsheng Zhang , Yongxin Chen

To sample from a general target distribution $p_*\propto e^{-f_*}$ beyond the isoperimetric condition, Huang et al. (2023) proposed to perform sampling through reverse diffusion, giving rise to Diffusion-based Monte Carlo (DMC).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-15 Xunpeng Huang , Difan Zou , Hanze Dong , Yian Ma , Tong Zhang

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown remarkable performance in visual synthesis but are computationally expensive due to the need for multiple evaluations during the sampling. Recent predictor-corrector diffusion samplers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Wenliang Zhao , Haolin Wang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Many interesting tasks in image restoration can be cast as linear inverse problems. A recent family of approaches for solving these problems uses stochastic algorithms that sample from the posterior distribution of natural images given the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-14 Bahjat Kawar , Michael Elad , Stefano Ermon , Jiaming Song

Despite significant advancements in customizing text-to-image and video generation models, generating images and videos that effectively integrate multiple personalized concepts remains a challenging task. To address this, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Gihyun Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

The slow inference process of image diffusion models significantly degrades interactive user experiences. To address this, we introduce Diffusion Preview, a novel paradigm employing rapid, low-step sampling to generate preliminary outputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fu-Yun Wang , Hao Zhou , Liangzhe Yuan , Sanghyun Woo , Boqing Gong , Bohyung Han , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Han Zhang , Yukun Zhu , Ting Liu , Long Zhao

Previous work has demonstrated that, in the Variance Preserving (VP) scenario, the nascent Directly Denoising Diffusion Models (DDDM) can generate high-quality images in one step while achieving even better performance in multistep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jingjing Wang , Dan Zhang , Feng Luo

Discrete diffusion language models (dLLMs) provide a fast and flexible alternative to autoregressive models (ARMs) via iterative denoising with parallel updates. However, their evaluation is challenging: existing metrics conflate denoiser…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Luhan Tang , Longxuan Yu , Shaorong Zhang , Greg Ver Steeg

Although there have been significant advancements in image compression techniques, such as standard and learned codecs, these methods still suffer from severe quality degradation at extremely low bits per pixel. While recent diffusion-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Chanung Park , Joo Chan Lee , Jong Hwan Ko

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have achieved impressive performance on various image generation tasks, including image super-resolution. By learning to reverse the process of gradually diffusing the data distribution into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Kai Zhao , Alex Ling Yu Hung , Kaifeng Pang , Haoxin Zheng , Kyunghyun Sung

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have achieved impressive performance on various generation tasks. By modeling the reverse process of gradually diffusing the data distribution into a Gaussian distribution, generating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhaoyang Lyu , Xudong XU , Ceyuan Yang , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

Diffusion models face a fundamental trade-off between generation quality and computational efficiency. Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) offer an efficient solution but suffer from potential information loss and non-end-to-end training. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhennan Chen , Junwei Zhu , Xu Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Hanzhen Zhao , Chengjie Wang , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

Accurate and uncertainty-aware trajectory prediction remains a core challenge for autonomous driving, driven by complex multi-agent interactions, diverse scene contexts and the inherently stochastic nature of future motion. Diffusion-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Marion Neumeier , Niklas Roßberg , Michael Botsch , Wolfgang Utschick

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) (Ho et al. 2020) have shown impressive results on image and waveform generation in continuous state spaces. Here, we introduce Discrete Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (D3PMs),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Jacob Austin , Daniel D. Johnson , Jonathan Ho , Daniel Tarlow , Rianne van den Berg

Diffusion models have recently achieved success in solving Bayesian inverse problems with learned data priors. Current methods build on top of the diffusion sampling process, where each denoising step makes small modifications to samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bingliang Zhang , Wenda Chu , Julius Berner , Chenlin Meng , Anima Anandkumar , Yang Song

In this paper, we introduce an innovative NLP model specifically fine-tuned to determine the minimal number of denoising steps required for any given text prompt. This advanced model serves as a real-time tool that recommends the ideal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Jean Yu , Haim Barad