arXiv AI
Jul 22
Provable diffusion-based posterior sampling for linear inverse problems via DDIM
arXiv:2607. 19333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based methods have achieved remarkable empirical success in solving inverse problems.
EquiReg: Equivariance Regularized Diffusion for Inverse Problems
EquiReg introduces an equivariance‑regularized diffusion framework that penalises sampling trajectories deviating from the data manifold, thereby improving posterior sampling for inverse problems. By formalising manifold‑preferential equivariant functions—naturally arising from data augmentation or inherent symmetries—EquiReg guides diffusion steps toward symmetry‑preserving regions of the solution space. The method shows consistent gains in both linear and nonlinear image restoration tasks and partial differential equation solving, especially under reduced sampling and measurement consistency steps, and is available as open‑source code.
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DAPS++: Rethinking Diffusion Inverse Problems with Decoupled Posterior Annealing
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arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7
SE-UNet: Singular Equivariant Imaging for Real-World Constrained Generation
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arXiv Computer Vision
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FlowSGS: Improving Flow Matching Priors for Inverse Imaging with Stochastic Interpolants
FlowSGS introduces a flow-based posterior sampling method that combines Split Gibbs Sampling (SGS) with Langevin dynamics for the likelihood step and Stochastic Interpolants (SI) for the prior step. By integrating a pretrained flow model into the prior step via SI's reverse-time SDE and a novel timestep correction, FlowSGS reduces the number of network evaluations compared to plug‑and‑play diffusion samplers. Experiments demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art performance on various inverse problems, including the first flow‑based solution to a nonlinear inverse problem (Fourier phase retrieval).
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 3
P-Flow: Proxy-gradient Flows for Linear Inverse Problems
arXiv:2605. 08328v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative models based on flow matching have emerged as a powerful paradigm for inverse problems, offering straighter trajectories and faster sampling compared to diffusion models.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2
Hallucination-Aware Diffusion Sampling for Inverse Problems via Robust Prior Updates
arXiv:2606. 02331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based inverse problem solvers can produce realistic reconstructions, but realism alone does not ensure that the recovered details are supported by the measurement.
arXiv Computer Vision
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Principled Design of Diffusion-based Optimizers for Inverse Problems
arXiv:2605.11506v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Score-based diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance for inverse problems, but their practical deployment is hindered by long inferenc...
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16
Exact Posterior Score Estimation for Solving Linear Inverse Problems
arXiv:2606. 17048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion and flow-based models learn powerful data priors by training a denoiser to reverse Gaussian corruption.
arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago
Principled MAP estimation for inverse problems: bridging the gap between convergence and performance
arXiv:2609.37529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained denoisers provide a powerful way to incorporate image priors into restoration algorithms. Plug-and-Play and RED approaches exploit fixed-n...
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4
Plug-and-Play Diffusion Meets ADMM: Dual-Variable Coupling for Robust Medical Image Reconstruction
arXiv:2602. 23214v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Plug-and-Play diffusion prior (PnPDP) frameworks have emerged as a powerful paradigm for solving imaging inverse problems by treating pretrained generative models as modular priors.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18
Score-based diffusion models for severely ill-posed problems in diffuse optical tomography
Score-based diffusion models, a recent framework for posterior sampling in Bayesian inverse problems, are applied to diffuse optical tomography (DOT), a highly ill‑posed boundary value problem for recovering tissue absorption and scattering. The authors introduce a mixed score that combines a learned component with a model‑based component, providing a theoretical justification for its local approximation to the true score in the small diffusion‑time regime. Four difference‑imaging approaches are compared—classical model‑based, approximate diffusion, exact posterior sampling (UCoS), and a regularized UCoS—showing that UCoS yields more accurate reconstructions, especially under limited‑view geometry and real experimental data.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7
MACS: Measurement-Aware Consistency Sampling for Inverse Problems
arXiv:2510. 02208v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse imaging problems.