The paper introduces LEADer, a framework that uses local epistemic uncertainty to guide active sampling in diffusion-based image restoration. By adjusting prior strength per pixel and pruning sampling trajectories based on uncertainty traces, LEADer balances detail preservation with artifact suppression and accelerates convergence. The method is plug‑and‑play, theoretically guarantees data consistency and stable convergence, and improves performance across multiple state‑of‑the‑art diffusion models with minimal memory overhead.
arXiv:2604.24136v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pretrained diffusion models have revolutionized real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR), but their iterative sampling is computationally prohi...
arXiv:2505. 06668v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present StableMotion, a novel framework that leverages geometric and content priors from pretrained large-scale image diffusion models for motion estimation in single-image rectification tasks such as Stitched Image Rectangling (SIR) and Rolling Shutter Correction (RSC).
arXiv:2607. 25275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world Image Restoration (Real-IR) aims to recover high-quality (HQ) images from complex and unknown degradations.
arXiv:2608. 10544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image restoration is fundamentally constrained by the tradeoff between distortion and perception: minimizing pixel-wise error yields over-smoothed results, whereas optimizing for perceptual realism often introduces structural deviations.
arXiv:2608. 15144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Posterior sampling with a pretrained diffusion prior is governed by a conditional score whose intermediate likelihood component is generally intractable.
arXiv:2608.30129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents $\textbf{Lapis}$, a $\textbf{l}$inear-$\textbf{a}$ttention-based $\textbf{pi}$xel-$\textbf{s}$pace generative framework that achieve...
arXiv:2510. 02208v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse imaging problems.
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:2607. 15711v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based methods have achieved impressive performance in real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) by leveraging large pre-trained stable diffusion (SD) models as powerful generative priors.
arXiv:2606. 19802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image restoration faces a fundamental tradeoff: methods that minimize error produce blurry reconstructions, while those that maximize perceptual quality yield sharp but less faithful images.
arXiv:2608.30782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) aims to preserve structures supported by the degraded observation while reconstructing perceptually realis...
The paper introduces Uncertainty DMD, a lightweight framework that injects uncertainty into few-step autoregressive video distillation to counteract diversity collapse. By perturbing the first chunk’s timestep and employing a stochastic cache-writing mechanism for subsequent chunks, the method restores stochasticity without altering the model architecture. Experiments demonstrate consistent improvements in video diversity and motion dynamics while preserving visual quality.