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The state-of-the-art methods for estimating high-dimensional covariance matrices all shrink the eigenvalues of the sample covariance matrix towards a data-insensitive shrinkage target. The underlying shrinkage transformation is either…

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In this paper, a novel and robust algorithm is proposed for adaptive beamforming based on the idea of reconstructing the autocorrelation sequence (ACS) of a random process from a set of measured data. This is obtained from the first column…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Vitor H. Nascimento , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Osman Kukrer

Practical diffusion sampling is a numerical approximation problem: under a fixed inference budget, one must simulate a reverse-time ODE or SDE using only a limited number of denoising steps, so discretization error is often the dominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Samuel Hurault , Thomas Moreau , Gabriel Peyré

Diffusion Models (DMs) have achieved great success in image generation and other fields. By fine sampling through the trajectory defined by the SDE/ODE solver based on a well-trained score model, DMs can generate remarkable high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Bowen Zheng , Tianming Yang

Latent Diffusion models (LDMs) have achieved remarkable results in synthesizing high-resolution images. However, the iterative sampling process is computationally intensive and leads to slow generation. Inspired by Consistency Models (song…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Simian Luo , Yiqin Tan , Longbo Huang , Jian Li , Hang Zhao

Although Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved promising results in image classification, they still are vulnerable to affine transformations including rotation, translation, flip and shuffle. The drawback motivates us to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Zijie Tan , Guanfang Dong , Chenqiu Zhao , Anup Basu

Latest diffusion models have shown promising results in category-level 6D object pose estimation by modeling the conditional pose distribution with depth image input. The existing methods, however, suffer from slow convergence during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Seunghyun Lee , Tae-Kyun Kim

Diffusion distillation methods aim to compress the diffusion models into efficient one-step generators while trying to preserve quality. Among them, Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) offers a suitable framework for training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Denis Rakitin , Ivan Shchekotov , Dmitry Vetrov

Diffusion models generate data by learning to reverse a forward process, where samples are progressively perturbed with Gaussian noise according to a predefined noise schedule. From a geometric perspective, each noise schedule corresponds…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Teng Zhang , Hongxu Jiang , Kuang Gong , Wei Shao

Differential dynamic microscopy (DDM) is a form of video image analysis that combines the sensitivity of scattering and the direct visualization benefits of microscopy. DDM is broadly useful in determining dynamical properties including the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-12 Mengyang Gu , Yimin Luo , Yue He , Matthew E. Helgeson , Megan T. Valentine

Diffusion models (DMs) excel in image generation but suffer from slow inference and training-inference discrepancies. Although gradient-based solvers for DMs accelerate denoising inference, they often lack theoretical foundations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Shigui Li , Wei Chen , Delu Zeng

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have emerged as a promising technique in generative modeling. The success of DPMs relies on two ingredients: time reversal of diffusion processes and score matching. In view of possibly unguaranteed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Wenpin Tang , Hanyang Zhao

In this paper, we study a smoothness regularization method for a varying coefficient model based on sparse and irregularly sampled functional data which is contaminated with some measurement errors. We estimate the one-dimensional…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-28 Behdad Mostafaiy

Diffusion models demonstrate impressive image generation performance with text guidance. Inspired by the learning process of diffusion, existing images can be edited according to text by DDIM inversion. However, the vanilla DDIM inversion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Qi Qian , Haiyang Xu , Ming Yan , Juhua Hu

Denoising Diffusion Models (DDMs) have become a popular tool for generating high-quality samples from complex data distributions. These models are able to capture sophisticated patterns and structures in the data, and can generate samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Emanuele Aiello , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

Despite the impressive performance of diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion (SD) in image generation, their slow inference limits practical deployment. Recent works accelerate inference by distilling multi-step diffusion into one-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Lei Wang , Yang Cheng , Senmao Li , Ge Wu , Yaxing Wang , Jian Yang

Ambient diffusion is a recently proposed framework for training diffusion models using corrupted data. Both Ambient Diffusion and alternative SURE-based approaches for learning diffusion models from corrupted data resort to approximations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Giannis Daras , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Constantinos Daskalakis

As a highly expressive generative model, diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional success across various domains, including image generation, natural language processing, and combinatorial optimization. However, as data distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Myunsoo Kim , Donghyeon Ki , Seong-Woong Shim , Byung-Jun Lee

While diffusion distillation has enabled one-step generation through methods like Variational Score Distillation, adapting distilled models to emerging new controls -- such as novel structural constraints or latest user preferences --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yihong Luo , Tianyang Hu , Yifan Song , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Jing Tang

Existing customization methods require access to multiple reference examples to align pre-trained diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) with user-provided concepts. This paper aims to address the challenge of DPM customization when the only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jiachun Pan , Jun Hao Liew , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Jiashi Feng , Hanshu Yan