arXiv AI By Zhaoqiang Liu, Tongyao Pang, Ruibing Wang, Yang Zheng

Scale-Consistent Posterior Dynamics for Diffusion Inverse Problems

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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.

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