Diffusion models: A comprehensive survey of methods and applications

L Yang, Z Zhang, Y Song, S Hong, R Xu, Y Zhao… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful new family of deep generative models with
record-breaking performance in many applications, including image synthesis, video …

Likelihood training of schr\" odinger bridge using forward-backward sdes theory

T Chen, GH Liu, EA Theodorou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.11291, 2021 - arxiv.org
Schr\" odinger Bridge (SB) is an entropy-regularized optimal transport problem that has
received increasing attention in deep generative modeling for its mathematical flexibility …

Memory in plain sight: A survey of the uncanny resemblances between diffusion models and associative memories

B Hoover, H Strobelt, D Krotov, J Hoffman… - … Memory {\&} Hopfield …, 2023 - openreview.net
Diffusion Models (DMs) have recently set state-of-the-art on many generation benchmarks.
However, there are myriad ways to describe them mathematically, which makes it difficult to …

Generative diffusion models: A survey of current theoretical developments

MN Yeğin, MF Amasyalı - Neurocomputing, 2024 - Elsevier
Generative diffusion models showed high success in many fields with a powerful theoretical
background. They convert the data distribution to noise and remove the noise back to obtain …

Towards healing the blindness of score matching

M Zhang, O Key, P Hayes, D Barber, B Paige… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Score-based divergences have been widely used in machine learning and statistics
applications. Despite their empirical success, a blindness problem has been observed when …

Score-based generative models break the curse of dimensionality in learning a family of sub-Gaussian distributions

F Cole, Y Lu - The Twelfth International Conference on Learning …, 2024 - openreview.net
While score-based generative models (SGMs) have achieved remarkable successes in
enormous image generation tasks, their mathematical foundations are still limited. In this …

Artificial-Intelligence-Generated Content with Diffusion Models: A Literature Review

X Wang, Z He, X Peng - Mathematics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Diffusion models have swiftly taken the lead in generative modeling, establishing
unprecedented standards for producing high-quality, varied outputs. Unlike Generative …

Entropy-based Training Methods for Scalable Neural Implicit Samplers

W Luo, B Zhang, Z Zhang - Advances in Neural Information …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Efficiently sampling from un-normalized target distributions is a fundamental problem in
scientific computing and machine learning. Traditional approaches such as Markov Chain …

Score-based generative models break the curse of dimensionality in learning a family of sub-Gaussian probability distributions

F Cole, Y Lu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.08082, 2024 - arxiv.org
While score-based generative models (SGMs) have achieved remarkable success in
enormous image generation tasks, their mathematical foundations are still limited. In this …

GANs Settle Scores!

S Asokan, N Shetty, A Srikanth… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) comprise a generator, trained to learn the
underlying distribution of the desired data, and a discriminator, trained to distinguish real …