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There are a large number of methods for solving under-determined linear inverse problem. Many of them have very high time complexity for large datasets. We propose a new method called Two-Stage Sparse Representation (TSSR) to tackle this…

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Thermal infrared (TIR) target tracking methods often adopt the correlation filter (CF) framework due to its computational efficiency. However, the low resolution of TIR images, along with tracking interference, significantly limits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shang Zhang , Xiaobo Ding , Huanbin Zhang , Ruoyan Xiong , Yue Zhang

Denoising diffusion models have been a mainstream approach for image generation, however, training these models often suffers from slow convergence. In this paper, we discovered that the slow convergence is partly due to conflicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Tiankai Hang , Shuyang Gu , Chen Li , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Han Hu , Xin Geng , Baining Guo

Diffusion models have recently achieved great success in the synthesis of high-quality images and videos. However, the existing denoising techniques in diffusion models are commonly based on step-by-step noise predictions, which suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hancheng Ye , Jiakang Yuan , Renqiu Xia , Xiangchao Yan , Tao Chen , Junchi Yan , Botian Shi , Bo Zhang

With the remarkable advent of text-to-image diffusion models, image editing methods have become more diverse and continue to evolve. A promising recent approach in this realm is Delta Denoising Score (DDS) - an image editing technique based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hyelin Nam , Gihyun Kwon , Geon Yeong Park , Jong Chul Ye

Test-time scaling (TTS) improves large language models (LLMs) by allocating additional compute at inference time. In practice, TTS is often achieved through parallel scaling: generating multiple candidate responses and selecting the best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Divya Shyamal , Marta Knežević , Lan Tran , Chanakya Ekbote , Vijay Lingam , Paul Pu Liang

Diffusion-based trajectory optimization has emerged as a powerful planning paradigm, but existing methods require either learned score networks trained on large datasets or analytical dynamics models for score computation. We introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shihao Li , Jiachen Li , Jiamin Xu , Dongmei Chen

Offline Reinforcement Learning (Offline RL) presents challenges of learning effective decision-making policies from static datasets without any online interactions. Data augmentation techniques, such as noise injection and data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jaewoo Lee , Sujin Yun , Taeyoung Yun , Jinkyoo Park

Diffusion models have been widely studied as effective generative tools for solving inverse problems. The main ideas focus on performing the reverse sampling process conditioned on noisy measurements, using well-established numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Xiang Cao , Xiaoqun Zhang

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for advancing Large Language Models (LLMs), achieving remarkable performance in complex reasoning domains such as mathematics and code generation. However, current RL methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jingyu Xing , Chenwei Tang , Xinyu Liu , Deng Xiong , Shudong Huang , Wei Ju , Jiancheng Lv , Ziyue Qiao

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful learned priors for solving inverse problems. However, current iterative solving approaches which alternate between diffusion sampling and data consistency steps typically require hundreds or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Minwoo Kim , Hongki Lim

Looped transformers scale computational depth without increasing parameter count by repeatedly applying a shared transformer block and can be used for iterative refinement, where each loop rewrites a full fixed-size prediction in parallel.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Chris Cameron , Wangzheng Wang , Nikita Ivanov , Ashmita Bhattacharyya , Didier Chételat , Yingxue Zhang

Denoising diffusion models have become ubiquitous for generative modeling. The core idea is to transport the data distribution to a Gaussian by using a diffusion. Approximate samples from the data distribution are then obtained by…

Diffusion models have become a leading paradigm in generative AI, with score estimation via denoising score matching as a central component. While recent theory provides strong statistical guarantees, it typically relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yinbin Han , Meisam Razaviyayn , Renyuan Xu

Accurate prediction of pedestrian trajectories is crucial for improving the safety of autonomous driving. However, this task is generally nontrivial due to the inherent stochasticity of human motion, which naturally requires the predictor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ge Sun , Sheng Wang , Lei Zhu , Ming Liu , Jun Ma

Limited-Angle Computed Tomography (LACT) is a challenging inverse problem where missing angular projections lead to incomplete sinograms and severe artifacts in the reconstructed images. While recent learning-based methods have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Jiaqi Guo , Santiago López-Tapia

Recent advancements in text-guided diffusion models have unlocked powerful image manipulation capabilities. However, applying these methods to real images necessitates the inversion of the images into the domain of the pretrained diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Daniel Garibi , Or Patashnik , Andrey Voynov , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Daniel Cohen-Or

In this work, we focus on the alignment problem of diffusion models with a continuous reward function, which represents specific objectives for downstream tasks, such as increasing darkness or improving the aesthetics of images. The central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Zhiwei Tang , Jiangweizhi Peng , Jiasheng Tang , Mingyi Hong , Fan Wang , Tsung-Hui Chang

Advances in diffusion models for generative artificial intelligence have recently propagated to the time series (TS) domain, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance on various tasks. However, prior works on TS diffusion models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Seunghan Lee , Kibok Lee , Taeyoung Park

The long sampling time of diffusion models remains a significant bottleneck, which can be mitigated by reducing the number of diffusion time steps. However, the quality of samples with fewer steps is highly dependent on the noise schedule,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Khaled Kahouli , Winfried Ripken , Stefan Gugler , Oliver T. Unke , Klaus-Robert Müller , Shinichi Nakajima