arXiv:2310. 05264v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this work, we investigate an intriguing and prevalent phenomenon of diffusion models which we term as "consistent model reproducibility": given the same starting noise input and a deterministic sampler, different diffusion models often yield remarkably similar outputs.
By Huijie Zhang, Jinfan Zhou, Yifu Lu, Minzhe Guo, Peng Wang, Liyue Shen, Qing Qu
The paper argues that the concrete random noise used in diffusion models is not merely a passive perturbation but a learnable input that can be exploited by the model. By analyzing how clean data and realized noise jointly form the noisy input, the authors show that the model can learn regularities in the data or in the noise structure, and that these two routes can interact. Experiments on MNIST and CIFAR‑10 using pseudorandom streams demonstrate that structured‑noise training can reduce prediction loss, but this advantage disappears when test noise is replaced with IID noise, indicating that the learned dependence is tied to the specific noise structure.
By Shengzhi Deng, Chenqi Ye, Yanze Guo
arXiv:2502. 19499v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in various domains with an intriguing ability to produce new data that do not exist in the training set.
By Zhengdao Chen
arXiv:2505. 22839v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent studies suggest that diffusion models significantly improve the empirical adversarial robustness of deep neural network models.
By Liu Yuezhang, Xue-Xin Wei
arXiv:2602. 02908v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models trained on different, non-overlapping subsets of a dataset often produce strikingly similar outputs when given the same noise seed.
By Binxu Wang, Jacob Zavatone-Veth, Cengiz Pehlevan
arXiv:2606. 14756v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The abundance of pre-trained diffusion models provides an opportunity for composition.
By Abhi Gupta, Polina Barabanshchikova, Vikas Garg, Samuel Kaski, Tommi Jaakkola
arXiv:2602. 09639v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) are state-of-the-art methods for learning densities from data across numerous domains, yet many aspects of the training and sampling pipeline remain poorly understood.
By Zahra Kadkhodaie, Aram-Alexandre Pooladian, Sinho Chewi, Eero Simoncelli
The paper explores using denoising diffusion generative models as plug‑and‑play priors for high‑dimensional inference problems. By combining a pre‑trained diffusion prior with a differentiable auxiliary constraint, the authors enable approximate inference through iterative differentiation across multiple noisy versions of the data. This framework opens possibilities for conditional generation, image segmentation, and novel combinatorial optimization algorithms.
By Alexandros Graikos, Esmeralda S. Whitammer, Nebojsa Jojic, Dimitris Samaras
The paper introduces a new method for training data attribution in diffusion models called TID, which uses a local score discrepancy measure and can be estimated without retraining. It further distills this approach into TIDE, a forward‑only student that reproduces the teacher’s rankings using internal activations, achieving comparable accuracy at dramatically lower query cost. Experiments on CIFAR‑10, ArtBench‑10, and MS‑COCO show that TID outperforms existing methods and TIDE attributes samples in milliseconds, faster than generation itself.
By Shixuan Liu, Joan Serr\`a, Kin Wai Cheuk, Jinju Kim, Woosung Choi, Yukara Ikemiya, Wei-Hsiang Liao, Jiaqi W. Ma, Yuki Mitsufuji
arXiv:2509. 24710v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Score-based diffusion models are a highly effective method for generating samples from a distribution of images.
By Dennis Elbr\"achter, Giovanni S. Alberti, Matteo Santacesaria
arXiv:2609.39648v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Diffusion models are typically viewed as stochastic processes that transform noise into data. We take a complementary perspective: a diffusion model...
By Cristina L\'opez Amado, Marco Fumero, Francesco Locatello
arXiv:2603. 12901v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative models, their learning dynamics remain poorly understood.
By Lorenzo Bardone, Claudia Merger, Sebastian Goldt