Diffusion Explainer
Diffusion explainers are generative models that leverage the principles of diffusion processes to create new data samples, primarily images and other high-dimensional data, by reversing a noise-addition process. Current research focuses on improving efficiency (e.g., one-step diffusion), enhancing controllability (e.g., through classifier-free guidance and conditioning on various modalities like text and 3D priors), and addressing challenges like data replication and mode collapse. These advancements are impacting diverse fields, from image super-resolution and medical imaging to robotics, recommendation systems, and even scientific simulations, by providing powerful tools for data generation, manipulation, and analysis.
Papers
Discovering deposition process regimes: leveraging unsupervised learning for process insights, surrogate modeling, and sensitivity analysis
Geremy Loachamín Suntaxi, Paris Papavasileiou, Eleni D. Koronaki, Dimitrios G. Giovanis, Georgios Gakis, Ioannis G. Aviziotis, Martin Kathrein, Gabriele Pozzetti, Christoph Czettl, Stéphane P. A. Bordas, Andreas G. Boudouvis
Blaze3DM: Marry Triplane Representation with Diffusion for 3D Medical Inverse Problem Solving
Jia He, Bonan Li, Ge Yang, Ziwen Liu
Oil & Water? Diffusion of AI Within and Across Scientific Fields
Eamon Duede, William Dolan, André Bauer, Ian Foster, Karim Lakhani
ComboStoc: Combinatorial Stochasticity for Diffusion Generative Models
Rui Xu, Jiepeng Wang, Hao Pan, Yang Liu, Xin Tong, Shiqing Xin, Changhe Tu, Taku Komura, Wenping Wang
Curriculum Direct Preference Optimization for Diffusion and Consistency Models
Florinel-Alin Croitoru, Vlad Hondru, Radu Tudor Ionescu, Nicu Sebe, Mubarak Shah
AnomalyXFusion: Multi-modal Anomaly Synthesis with Diffusion
Jie Hu, Yawen Huang, Yilin Lu, Guoyang Xie, Guannan Jiang, Yefeng Zheng, Zhichao Lu
DiffuseLoco: Real-Time Legged Locomotion Control with Diffusion from Offline Datasets
Xiaoyu Huang, Yufeng Chi, Ruofeng Wang, Zhongyu Li, Xue Bin Peng, Sophia Shao, Borivoje Nikolic, Koushil Sreenath