arXiv AI

Geometry-Aware Tabular Diffusion

arXiv:2606. 02607v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular synthesis is critical for privacy-preserving sharing and augmentation, yet diffusion models rely on implicit mechanisms to capture inter-column relationships.

arXiv AI
Sep 3

GeoSPRINT: Geometric Redundancy-Aware Step Pruning for Inference in Diffusion Trajectories

GeoSPRINT is a training‑free framework that constructs non‑uniform sampling schedules for diffusion model inference by detecting geometrically redundant steps in denoising trajectories. It uses a hyperplanarity test in latent space, implemented via QR factorization, to allocate more steps to high‑curvature regions, and introduces the trajectory projection score α_traj as a model‑free diagnostic for flow quality. Across CIFAR‑10, LSUN Church, and Stable Diffusion v1.5, GeoSPRINT consistently outperforms uniform DDIM schedules at matched NFE budgets, improving FID scores by up to 1.93 points.

By Arpita Joshi
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

Residual-Stream Burden Shapes Representation Learning in Diffusion Transformers

The paper investigates why Diffusion Transformers perform well when predicting clean data but poorly when predicting noise or velocity. It introduces the concept of *residual-stream burden*, explaining that noisy targets force the residual stream to carry noise-dependent variation through the network, limiting representation flexibility. Experiments show that spectral concentration of clean targets reduces this burden, and the authors propose Spatially Indexed Hyper-Connections (SiHC) to expand residual bandwidth, achieving state‑of‑the‑art FID on ImageNet.

By Tongtong Liang, Siqi Kou, Ziqiao Xi, Esha Singh, Kun Zhou, Zhijie Deng, Alexander Cloninger, Yu-Xiang Wang, Rahul Parhi
arXiv AI
Jun 29

OSOR: One-Step Diffusion Inpainting for Effect-Aware Object Removal

arXiv:2606. 28094v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world object removal is challenging due to two key difficulties: the target object's non-local effects, such as shadows and reflections, which are difficult to model, and the fact that user-provided masks are often inaccurate or incomplete.

By Qinming Zhou, Chenxi Sun, Deyang Kong, Junhao He, Xiangheng Tang, Peike Yu, Haotian Wu, Leilei Cao, Linfeng Zhang