arXiv Machine Learning June 5, 2026 By Yujia Wu, Zhaoqiang Liu

Tracing the Oracle: Improving Diffusion Timestep Scheduling for 3D CT Reconstruction

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arXiv:2606. 06236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained diffusion models demonstrate impressive potential in solving highly ill-posed 3D computed tomography (CT) inverse problems, while the inference process suffers from significant computational overhead.

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