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.
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.
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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 2
Preconditioned One-Step Generative Modeling for Bayesian Inverse Problems in Function Spaces
arXiv:2603. 14798v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a machine-learning algorithm for Bayesian inverse problems in the function-space regime.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18
PosteriorBench: From Point Estimates to Posterior Matching in Evaluating Generative Inverse Solvers
PosteriorBench is a new benchmark that evaluates how well generative inverse solvers recover full posterior distributions rather than just a single reconstruction. It tests four physics-based inverse problems—Darcy flow inversion, Poisson source recovery, carbon capture and storage, and light transport material inference—using high-fidelity reference posteriors generated by rejection sampling and MCMC. The benchmark employs five metrics (posterior-mean error, posterior-standard-deviation error, maximum mean discrepancy, sliced Wasserstein distance, and radially averaged power-spectrum error) to assess pointwise accuracy, uncertainty, distributional alignment, and global frequency fidelity, revealing significant distribution-matching gaps in current solvers and highlighting the importance of neural operators, guidance weights, and generation noise for posterior-variance calibration.
arXiv Computer Vision
1d ago
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
Jul 28
Exact Evaluation of the Accuracy of Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems with Gaussian Data Distributions
arXiv:2507. 07008v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Used as priors for Bayesian inverse problems, diffusion models have recently attracted considerable attention in the literature.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 8
A Convex Approximation Framework for Neural Likelihood-Based Bayesian Inverse Problems
arXiv:2607. 06252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many problems in science and engineering are difficult to model accurately, either due to unknown physical mechanisms, poorly quantified measurement uncertainty, or prohibitive computational costs of high-fidelity simulations.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 19
Flow Map Denoisers: Traversing the Distortion-Perception Plane for Inverse Problems
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 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 AI
Sep 4
A Posterior-Dynamics Framework for Imaging Inverse Problems with Pretrained Diffusion Priors
The paper introduces a Posterior‑Dynamics Framework that leverages pretrained diffusion models as multiscale priors for linear imaging inverse problems such as deblurring, super‑resolution, and inpainting. By constructing a surrogate likelihood centered on the clean image and incorporating diffusion uncertainty, the authors derive continuous posterior dynamics and a tunable Langevin component for adaptive exploration. They prove theoretical guarantees (endpoint consistency, finite‑horizon tracking, weak accuracy) and present the PD‑IMEX sampler, which achieves high‑quality reconstructions with only 100 score evaluations and controllable fidelity‑diversity trade‑offs.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26
Latent Diffusion Posterior Sampling with Surrogate Likelihood Guidance for PDE Inverse Problems
arXiv:2606. 26592v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose latent-space diffusion posterior sampling (L-DPS), an approximate Bayesian framework for high-dimensional inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs).
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18
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).