arXiv Computer Vision By Shota Saito, Yuta Nakahara, Kohei Horinouchi, Naoki Ichijo, Manabu Kobayashi, Toshiyasu Matsushima

A Mixture Autoregressive Image Generative Model on Quadtree Regions for Gaussian Noise Removal via Variational Bayes and Gradient Methods

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arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

Mapping-Based Image Diffusion

The paper introduces a tensor‑based functional for targeted image enhancement and denoising, incorporating application‑dependent and contextual information through explicit regularization. It establishes existence of a minimizer and discusses tensor symmetry constraints, convexity, and geometric interpretation. The framework demonstrates strong performance in nonlinear scenarios like gamma correction and targeted value‑range filtering, achieving results comparable to state‑of‑the‑art PDE‑based methods.

By Freddie {\AA}str\"om, Michael Felsberg, George Baravdish
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Diffusion models as plug-and-play priors

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
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Equilibrium Forcing: Adaptive Video Generation Without Noise Conditioning

arXiv:2608. 14706v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard autoregressive video generation algorithms based on Diffusion and Flow Matching rely on rigid training objectives and static sampling schedules, limiting inference procedures from adapting to the data.

By Hansen Jin Lillemark, Alex Rojas, Zachary Novack, Runqian Wang, Yilun Du, Yian Ma, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Rose Yu