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We present the first diffusion-based framework that can learn an unknown distribution using only highly-corrupted samples. This problem arises in scientific applications where access to uncorrupted samples is impossible or expensive to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Giannis Daras , Kulin Shah , Yuval Dagan , Aravind Gollakota , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Adam Klivans

When do diffusion models reproduce their training data, and when are they able to generate samples beyond it? A practically relevant theoretical understanding of this interplay between memorization and generalization may significantly…

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Tabular data generation has attracted significant research interest in recent years, with the tabular diffusion models greatly improving the quality of synthetic data. However, while memorization, where models inadvertently replicate exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhengyu Fang , Zhimeng Jiang , Huiyuan Chen , Xiao Li , Jing Li

Generative image modeling enables a wide range of applications but raises ethical concerns about responsible deployment. This paper introduces an active strategy combining image watermarking and Latent Diffusion Models. The goal is for all…

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Consistency models have been proposed for fast generative modeling, achieving results competitive with diffusion and flow models. However, these methods exhibit inherent instability and limited reproducibility when training from scratch,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Youngjoong Kim , Duhoe Kim , Woosung Kim , Jaesik Park

Modern diffusion models have set the state-of-the-art in AI image generation. Their success is due, in part, to training on Internet-scale data which often includes copyrighted work. This prompts questions about the extent to which these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Stephen Casper , Zifan Guo , Shreya Mogulothu , Zachary Marinov , Chinmay Deshpande , Rui-Jie Yew , Zheng Dai , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for generative modeling. At the heart of the methodology is score matching: learning gradients of families of log-densities for noisy versions of the data distribution at different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Ricardo Baptista , Agnimitra Dasgupta , Nikola B. Kovachki , Assad Oberai , Andrew M. Stuart

Generative latent diffusion models have been established as state-of-the-art in data generation. One promising application is generation of realistic synthetic medical imaging data for open data sharing without compromising patient privacy.…

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The rapid advancement of generative image models has transformed digital media to the point where AI generated images can no longer be reliably distinguished from authentic photographs by human observers or many conventional detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohd Ruhul Ameen , Akif Islam

Text-to-image diffusion models (DMs) have achieved remarkable success in image generation. However, concerns about data privacy and intellectual property remain due to their potential to inadvertently memorize and replicate training data.…

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Generating high-quality labeled image datasets is crucial for training accurate and robust machine learning models in the field of computer vision. However, the process of manually labeling real images is often time-consuming and costly. To…

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Recent advances in generative models have demonstrated an exceptional ability to produce highly realistic images. However, previous studies show that generated images often resemble the training data, and this problem becomes more severe as…

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Due to their capacity to generate novel and high-quality samples, diffusion models have attracted significant research interest in recent years. Notably, the typical training objective of diffusion models, i.e., denoising score matching,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Xiangming Gu , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Chongxuan Li , Min Lin , Ye Wang

Due to the high potential for abuse of GenAI systems, the task of detecting synthetic images has recently become of great interest to the research community. Unfortunately, existing image-space detectors quickly become obsolete as new…

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The widespread use of diffusion models has led to an abundance of AI-generated data, raising concerns about model collapse -- a phenomenon in which recursive iterations of training on synthetic data lead to performance degradation. Prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Lianghe Shi , Meng Wu , Huijie Zhang , Zekai Zhang , Molei Tao , Qing Qu

The proliferation of diffusion models trained on web-scale, provenance-uncertain image collections has made it essential, yet technically unresolved, to determine whether a model has learned from specific copyrighted data without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Muxing Li , Zesheng Ye , Sharon Li , Andy Song , Guangquan Zhang , Feng Liu

Diffusion models excel at generating high-quality, diverse samples, yet they risk memorizing training data when overfit to the training objective. We analyze the distinctions between memorization and generalization in diffusion models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Zekai Zhang , Xiao Li , Xiang Li , Lianghe Shi , Meng Wu , Molei Tao , Qing Qu

Diffusion models power leading generative AI, but when and how they memorize training data, especially on low-dimensional manifolds, remains unclear. We find memorization emerges gradually, not abruptly: as data become scarce, diffusion…

Restoring real-world degraded images, such as old photographs or low-resolution images, presents a significant challenge due to the complex, mixed degradations they exhibit, such as scratches, color fading, and noise. Recent data-driven…

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