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SE-UNet: Singular Equivariant Imaging for Real-World Constrained Generation
Jul 2, 2026Kanishk AwadhiyaConstrained Generative Modeling Equivariant Neural Networks
Independent Researcher
Restore3D: Breathing Life into Broken Objects with Shape and Texture Restoration
Jul 1, 2026Xiaolong Shen, Zongxin Yang, Yi Yang3D Reconstruction Multi-View 3D Reconstruction
ReLER, CCAI, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Envisage: Diffusion-Based Rhinoplasty Goal Visualization with Mask-Decomposed Evaluation
Jun 26, 2026Mudit Agarwal, Amit D. BhranyImage Editing Evaluation Image Inpainting
University of Washington · Seattle, WA, USA · Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery +1
OSOR: One-Step Diffusion Inpainting for Effect-Aware Object Removal
Jun 26, 2026Qinming Zhou, Chenxi Sun, Deyang Kong +6Image Inpainting Diffusion Model Acceleration
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tsinghua University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China +3
CoIn: Comprehensive 2D-3D Inpainting with Gaussian Splatting Guidance
Jun 25, 2026Hana Kim, Minje Kim, Tae-Kyun Kim3D Gaussian Splatting 3D Scene Editing
LG Electronics, Seoul, South Korea · KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
DeLux: Cross-Modal Local Artifact Restoration in Video Using Neuromorphic Data
Jun 25, 2026Bartosz Stachowiak, Dariusz BrzezinskiImage Restoration Image Inpainting
Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, ul. Piotrowo 2, 60-965 Poznan, Poland
Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance
Jun 17, 2026Kangsheng Duan, Ziyang Xu, Wenyu Liu +3Diffusion Models for Image Restoration Diffusion Model Distillation
Huazhong University of Science and Technology · *Equal contribution. Completed this work as interns at VIVO AI Lab. · † Project leader. +1
An Improved Generative Adversarial Network for Micro-Resistivity Imaging Logging Restoration
Jun 8, 2026Ahmed Faizul Haque, S. M. Riaz Rahman Antu, Saif Ahmed +5Image Restoration Image Inpainting
Dept. of ECE North South University Dhaka, Bangladesh
Echo-DM: Ultrasound Marker Removal via Conditional Latent Diffusion and Region-Aware Fusion
Jun 8, 2026Zhiwei Wang, Tao Huang, Wentao Jiang +7Diffusion Models for Image Restoration Latent Diffusion Models
School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China · The Central Hospital of Wuhan, China · School of Computer Science, Hubei University of Technology, China
Follow-Your-Preference++: Rethinking Preference Alignment for Image Inpainting
Jun 2, 2026Junkun Yuan, Yutao Shen, Toru Aonishi +2Pairwise Preference Learning Reward Modeling
Zhejiang University · The University of Tokyo · Tsinghua University
Benchmarking Single-Step Inpainting Methods for Multi-Object 3D Gaussian Splatting Scenes
May 29, 2026Finn Dröge, Cecilia Curreli, Abhishek Saroha +13D Gaussian Splatting Image Inpainting
1Technical University of Munich · 2Munich Center for Machine Learning
A Non-Reference Diffusion-Based Restoration Framework for Landsat 7 ETM+ SLC-off Imagery in Antarctica
May 20, 2026Leyue Tang, Jonathan Louis Bamber, Gang Qiao +1Diffusion Models for Image Restoration Remote Sensing
Center for Spatial Information Science and Sustainable Development Applications, College of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China · Bristol Glaciology Centre, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK · Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Germany +1
StyleText: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Stylized Scene Text Inpainting
May 17, 2026Aleksandr Simonyan, Nipun JindalImage Inpainting
Adobe Inc.
Face inpainting with Identity Preserving Latent Diffusion Models
May 15, 2026João Santos, Carlos Santiago, Manuel MarquesLatent Diffusion Models Identity-Preserving Image Generation
Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
AdaEraser: Training-Free Object Removal via Adaptive Attention Suppression
May 15, 2026Dingming LiuImage Inpainting Attention Mechanisms
School of Computer Science, Peking University.
ClickRemoval: An Interactive Open-Source Tool for Object Removal in Diffusion Models
May 14, 2026Ledun Zhang, Yatu Ji, Xufei Zhuang +1Attention Control in Diffusion Models Image Inpainting
Inner Mongolia University of Technology Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China
Image AID via continuous-time reinforcement learning
May 13, 2026Yilie Huang, Xun Yu ZhouDiffusion Model Guidance Masked Diffusion Models
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. · Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research & Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
simpleposter: a simple baseline for product poster generation
May 9, 2026Benlei Cui, Fangao Zeng, Weitao Jiang +6Image Generation Image Inpainting
1Alibaba Group · 2Taobao & Tmall Group of Alibaba
BRIDGE: Background Routing and Isolated Discrete Gating for Coarse-Mask Local Editing
May 8, 2026Peilin Xiong, Honghui Yuan, Junwen Chen +1Diffusion Transformer Positional Encoding
Department of Informatics, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
AlbumFill: Album-Guided Reasoning and Retrieval for Personalized Image Completion
May 4, 2026Yu-Ju Tsai, Brian Price, Qing Liu +5Image Inpainting
University of California, Merced · Adobe Research
Quaternion Nonlinear Transform-Induced Nuclear Norm for Low-Rank Tensor Completion
May 2, 2026Biswarup Karmakar, Ratikanta BeheraTensor Completion Tensor Decomposition
Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
InpaintSLat: Inpainting Structured 3D Latents via Initial Noise Optimization
May 1, 2026Jaeyoung Chung, Suyoung Lee, Kyoung Mu LeeLatent Diffusion Models Image Inpainting
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
GOR-IS: 3D Gaussian Object Removal in the Intrinsic Space
May 1, 2026Yonghao Zhao, Yupeng Gao, Jian Yang +23D Gaussian Splatting Intrinsic Image Decomposition
VCIP, College of Computer Science, Nankai University · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University
MESA: A Training-Free Multi-Exemplar Deep Framework for Restoring Ancient Inscription Textures
Apr 19, 2026Vasileios Toulatzis, Sofia Theodoridou, Ioannis FudosImage Generation Image Restoration
University of Ioannina, Greece
FlowID : Enhancing Forensic Identification with Latent Flow-Matching Models
Mar 31, 2026Jules Ripoll, David Bertoin, Alasdair Newson +2Identity-Preserving Image Generation Image Inpainting
INSA Toulouse · Sorbonne Universit´e · International Committee of the Red Cross
Longitudinal Lesion Inpainting in Brain MRI via 3D Region Aware Diffusion
Mar 5, 2026Zahra Karimaghaloo, Dumitru Fetco, Haz-Edine Assemlal +2Diffusion Models for Image Restoration Diffusion Model Guidance
Clario part of Thermofisher Scientific, Montreal, Canada · Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Controllable Diffusion-Based Lesion Inpainting for Scalable Histopathology Data Augmentation
Jan 13, 2026Mohamad Koohi-Moghadam, Mohammad-Ali Nikouei Mahani, Rex K. H. Au-Yeung +6Computational Pathology Synthetic Data Augmentation
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong SAR, PR China · Department of Pathology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. +2
SONIC: Spectral Optimization of Noise for Inpainting with Consistency
Nov 25, 2025Seungyeon Baek, Erqun Dong, Shadan Namazifard +2Diffusion Model Inversion Image Inpainting
University of British Columbia, Canada · Google DeepMind, USA
Unified Long Video Inpainting and Outpainting via Overlapping High-Order Co-Denoising
Nov 5, 2025Shuangquan Lyu, Jian Mao, Yue MaVideo Diffusion Models Long Video Generation
Carnegie Mellon University · Jilin University · Tsinghua University
S^2VG: 3D Stereoscopic and Spatial Video Generation via Denoising Frame Matrix
Aug 11, 2025Peng Dai, Feitong Tan, Qiangeng Xu +6Multi-View Video Generation Image Inpainting
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

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SE-UNet: Singular Equivariant Imaging for Real-World Constrained Generation

Kanishk Awadhiya

Independent Researcher

Constrained Generative Modeling Equivariant Neural Networks Image Restoration Image Inpainting Inverse Problems

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While diffusion models have revolutionized image synthesis, their application to real-world inverse problems is often hampered by the need for massive datasets and the difficulty of imposing strict physical constraints. In this work, we introduce \textbf{SE-UNet} (Singular Equivariant UNet), a framework designed to solve ill-posed imaging tasks without extensive pre-training. By treating generation as an optimization problem constrained by geometric equivariance (

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group) and singular value gating, SE-UNet effectively standardizes the solution space. We demonstrate that these strong inductive biases allow for state-of-the-art zero-shot inpainting results (80% missing pixels) on CIFAR-10. Our method surpasses Deep Image Prior (DIP) baselines by over 4 dB in PSNR and exhibits a characteristic "singular snap" convergence -- rapidly locking into the signal manifold. SE-UNet thus offers a data-efficient pathway for constrained generation, aligning with the ReALM-GEN goal of bridging theoretical priors with practical deployment.

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