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Recent research explores advancements in diffusion models, focusing on improving their efficiency and applicability across various domains. FlashDiff introduces adaptive regional execution and scheduling to reduce serving latency and increase throughput for image, video, and audio generation. The "seriality gap" is identified as a challenge in video diffusion models, where performance degrades with longer causal chains, suggesting a need for improved serial computation. Other work presents ReDiTT for asynchronous time series prediction using retrieval-augmented diffusion transformers, and explores variance-corrective time shifting to enhance diversity in diffusion models without retraining. Additionally, new frameworks like Singularity Space represent signals through complex-plane singularities for better structural stability, and DUNE offers a training-free refinement method to reduce artifacts in diffusion models. AI

IMPACT These advancements aim to improve the efficiency, diversity, and applicability of diffusion models across various domains like image generation, video prediction, and time series analysis.

RANK_REASON Multiple research papers published on arXiv detailing new methods and analyses for diffusion models.

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  1. Google AI / Research TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Towards demystifying the creativity of diffusion models

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  2. Hugging Face Blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers

  3. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Jinshu Huang, Yiming Jiang, Chunlin Wu ·

    From Score Learning to Discretized Sampling: An End-to-End Generalization Analysis of Diffusion Models

    arXiv:2607.23226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the empirical success of score-based diffusion models, a complete theoretical understanding of how finite-sample learning, network parameterization, and numerical discretization jointly dictate generative quality remains und…

  4. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Arisrei Lim, Yossi Gandelsman ·

    Learning Sampling Parameters for Diffusion Models

    arXiv:2607.23488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models expose many inference-time sampling parameters, including prompts, negative prompts, classifier-free guidance scales, and noise schedules. These parameters are typically manually chosen once and then h…

  5. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Luca Ambrogioni, Giulio Franzese, Alberto Foresti, Gabriel Raya, Bac Nguyen, Georgios Batzolis, Yuhta Takida, Naoki Murata, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yuki Mitsufuji ·

    From Atoms to Entropy: Optimal Noise Allocation for Diffusion Training in the Convex Regime

    arXiv:2607.20540v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How should a diffusion model decide which noise levels to train on, and how much? Despite the importance of this choice, current noise schedules are based largely on heuristics or empirical tuning. Here, we develop a general stati…

  6. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Du Yin, Estrid He, Juli\'an Jer\'onimo Ba\~nuelos, Yang Yang, Feng Hu, Yuchen Luo, Hao Xue, Stephan Sigg, Flora Salim ·

    StrideDiffusion: Accelerating Diffusion Models for Time-series Generation

    arXiv:2607.20545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have become competitive generators for time series, but their practical use is limited by the large number of sequential denoising steps required at inference time. Existing fast samplers typically use fixed or gene…

  7. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jingyuan Li, Xiaoyi Jiang, Yixuan Jiang, Wei Liu, Yi Zhu, Zuoqiang Shi, Pipi Hu ·

    Mean-to-Score Discrete Diffusion: Posterior-Mean Denoisers for Score Entropy

    arXiv:2607.21372v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Score Entropy Discrete Diffusion (SEDD) parameterizes discrete reverse processes with unconstrained positive score ratios. While positivity guarantees nonnegative reverse jump rates, it does not ensure Bayes realizability: ratios …

  8. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yi Xiong, Yuan-Yuan Cheng, Xiao-Ming Fu ·

    Source-Prior-Driven Selective Adaptation for Efficient Diffusion Model Finetuning

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  9. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Yann Bouquet, Alireza Khodamoradi, Kristof Denolf, Mathieu Salzmann ·

    KroQuant: Kronecker-Structured Block Transforms for Efficient Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Transformers

    arXiv:2607.21446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) of diffusion transformers (DiTs) to W4A4 severely degrades output quality, because activations entering each linear layer contain outliers that 4-bit formats cannot represent. The standard fix applie…

  10. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Tianyi Zeng, Tianyi Wang, Jiaru Zhang, Zimo Zeng, Feiyang Zhang, Yiming Xu, Sikai Chen, Junfeng Jiao, Christian Claudel, Xinbo Chen ·

    PILD: Physics-Informed Learning via Diffusion

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  11. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Mean-to-Score Discrete Diffusion: Posterior-Mean Denoisers for Score Entropy

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  12. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Seonsoo Kim, Seongil Hong, Jun-Gill Kang ·

    Diffusion ReRoll: Revisable Denoising for Robotic Sequential Prediction

    arXiv:2607.19919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose Diffusion ReRoll, a diffusion-based framework for robotic sequential prediction that enables revisable denoising over horizons. Existing diffusion-based sequence predictors typically perform a single monotonic denoising…

  13. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Kou Misaki, Takuya Akiba ·

    UnMaskFork: Test-Time Scaling for Masked Diffusion via Deterministic Action Branching

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  14. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Xiaoxuan Liang, Saeid Naderiparizi, Berend Zwartsenberg, Frank Wood ·

    Integration Matters: Rollout-Based Training for Constrained Diffusion Models

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  15. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Bernardo P. Schaeffer, Ricardo M. S. Rosa, Glauco Valle ·

    The Effect of Stochasticity in Score-Based Diffusion Sampling: a KL Divergence Analysis

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    Token Time Continuous Diffusion for Language Modeling

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    Discrete Diffusion Models: A Unified Framework from Tokenization to Generation

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  18. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

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  19. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Xue Liu ·

    Discrete Diffusion Models: A Unified Framework from Tokenization to Generation

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  20. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Yaqi Qiao, Ping He, Songrun Xie, Ayush Barik, Chensong Zhang, Zhengzhong Tu, Fan Lai ·

    FlashDiff: Efficient Regional Execution and Scheduling for Diffusion Model Serving

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  21. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Saiyue Lyu, Zhitian Zhang, Ruizhi Deng, Thibaut Durand ·

    ReDiTT: Retrieval Augmented Conditional Diffusion Transformers for Asynchronous Time Series

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  22. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Jorge Diaz Chao, Konpat Preechakul, Yuxi Liu, Yutong Bai ·

    The Seriality Gap in Video Diffusion Models

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  23. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Discrete Diffusion Models: A Unified Framework from Tokenization to Generation

    Discrete denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have recently emerged as a compelling alternative to autoregressive (AR) modeling for discrete data, offering parallel generation and iterative global refinement capabilities. Unlike continuous diffusion, where the state space is fixed, …

  24. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    The Seriality Gap in Video Diffusion Models

    When one ball strikes another, then another, video models should predict the consequences of each bounce. In controlled experiments on multi-ball hard-sphere dynamics, we find that the performance of standard bidirectional video diffusion degrades as the causal chain lengthens, e…

  25. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Yutong Bai ·

    The Seriality Gap in Video Diffusion Models

    When one ball strikes another, then another, video models should predict the consequences of each bounce. In controlled experiments on multi-ball hard-sphere dynamics, we find that the performance of standard bidirectional video diffusion degrades as the causal chain lengthens, e…

  26. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Thibaut Durand ·

    ReDiTT: Retrieval Augmented Conditional Diffusion Transformers for Asynchronous Time Series

    We present a diffusion based model for asynchronous time series prediction, where the goal is to predict the next inter event time and event type. To address the inherent uncertainty of future events, we introduce ReDiTT, a retrieval augmented conditional diffusion transformer th…

  27. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Zichen Liu, Wei Zhang, Christof Sch\"utte, Tiejun Li ·

    Riemannian Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

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  28. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Peizhuo Li, Emre Aksan, Alexandru-Eugen Ichim, Thabo Beeler, Olga Sorkine-Hornung ·

    Diversify Diffusion with Temperature Sampling and Variance-Corrective Time Shifting

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    Unified Backbone Refinement for Diffusion Models via Internal-Latent Analysis

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    The Singularity Space: A Generative Diffusion Framework for Signal Representation

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    Autoregressive latent diffusion for 3D molecule generation

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  32. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Sang-Hoon Lee, Ha-Yeong Choi ·

    ReGen: Hierarchical Multi-Prompt Representation Generation for Efficient Waveform Diffusion Models

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  33. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Sticky Jump Diffusions: A Unifying View of Masked, Continuous, and Hybrid Diffusion

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  34. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 Italiano(IT) · Alex M. Ganose ·

    Autoregressive latent diffusion for 3D molecule generation

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  35. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Ha-Yeong Choi ·

    ReGen: Hierarchical Multi-Prompt Representation Generation for Efficient Waveform Diffusion Models

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  36. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Abdullah Al Shafi, Sumaiya Rahim Suma ·

    Closing the Null Space: Guidance-Aware Quantization for Classifier-Free Diffusion

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    ARDY: Autoregressive Diffusion with Hybrid Representation for Interactive Human Motion Generation

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  38. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Davis Rempe ·

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  39. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

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    Closing the Null Space: Guidance-Aware Quantization for Classifier-Free Diffusion

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    Generative Diffusion Models of Stochastic Graph Signals

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    Selective Timestep Weighting and Advantage-Based Replay for Sample-Efficient Diffusion RLHF

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    ContrastiveCFG: Guiding Diffusion Sampling by Contrasting Positive and Negative Concepts

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    Hypergraph Neural Stochastic Diffusion: An SDE Framework for Uncertainty Estimation

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    Reinforcing the Generation Order of Multimodal Masked Diffusion Models

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  68. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yumeng Ren, Yaofang Liu, Aitor Artola, Laurent Mertz, Raymond H. Chan, Jean-michel Morel ·

    Improving Diffusion Generative Models via Truncated Karhunen--Lo\`eve Expansion

    arXiv:2503.17657v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pretrained diffusion models exhibit a well-known training-sampling mismatch, often attributed to exposure bias and related distribution-shift effects. We provide a quantitative interpretation of this phenomenon through the notio…

  69. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Weilai Xiang, Hongyu Yang, Di Huang, Yunhong Wang ·

    Conditioning Residuals for Diffusion Models via Representation Feedback

    arXiv:2505.10999v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models now serve as a common foundation for multimedia generation, and useful intermediate representations emerge during their generative training. Standard architectures, however, propagate these representations throu…

  70. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Angus Phillips, Thomas Seror, Michael Hutchinson, Valentin De Bortoli, Arnaud Doucet, Emile Mathieu ·

    Spectral Diffusion Processes

    arXiv:2209.14125v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models have proven to be a flexible and effective framework for modelling probability distributions on finite-dimensional spaces. However, many physical modelling problems such as time series are naturally described ov…

  71. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Han Chen, Sifan Liu, Jun Yang ·

    Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Diffusion Paths

    arXiv:2607.11631v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sampling from multimodal distributions is a longstanding challenge for classical local Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. A popular remedy is to introduce a sequence of intermediate distributions that interpolate between the…

  72. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Ziv Aharoni, Henry D. Pfister ·

    Conservation Laws for Diffusion Models

    arXiv:2607.10067v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While autoregressive models optimize the exact data likelihood via the chain rule, diffusion models are typically trained with denoising objectives. We develop conservation laws based on generalized extrinsic information transfer …

  73. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Pascal Jutras-Dub\'e, Patrick Pynadath, Jeremy Lu, Yuan Gao, Ruqi Zhang ·

    Sticky Jump Diffusions: A Unifying View of Masked, Continuous, and Hybrid Diffusion

    arXiv:2607.10951v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Sticky Jump Diffusions (SJDs), continuous-time Markov processes on $\mathbb R^d$ whose discrete anchors are token embeddings. In forward time, anchors release their mass at a hazard rate and the released mass diffuses…

  74. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Lei Qian, Wu Su, Yanqi Huang, Song Xi Chen ·

    Likelihood Matching for Diffusion Models

    arXiv:2508.03636v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a Likelihood Matching approach for training diffusion models by first establishing an equivalence between the likelihood of the target data distribution and a likelihood along the sample path of the reverse diffusion.…

  75. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiadong Liang, Zhihan Huang, Yuxin Chen ·

    Low-dimensional adaptation of diffusion models: Convergence in total variation

    arXiv:2501.12982v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper investigates how diffusion generative models leverage (unknown) low-dimensional structure to accelerate sampling. Focusing on two mainstream samplers -- the denoising diffusion implicit model (DDIM) and the denoising …

  76. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Patrick Pynadath, Jiaxin Shi, Ruqi Zhang ·

    CANDI: Hybrid Discrete-Continuous Diffusion Models

    arXiv:2510.22510v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While continuous diffusion has shown remarkable success in continuous domains such as image generation, its direct application to discrete data has underperformed pure discrete formulations. To understand this gap, we intr…

  77. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yongseong Park, Joeun Kim, HoEun Kim, Young-Sik Kim ·

    Compression Asymmetry and Trajectory Binding in Noise-Anchored Diffusion Inversion

    arXiv:2607.09784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-image diffusion inversion is governed by a tight quality-cost trade-off, with costs incurred in computation, storage, or per-image optimization. We study this trade-off through the forward Gaussian noise anchor that defines a d…

  78. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Jun Yang ·

    Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Diffusion Paths

    Sampling from multimodal distributions is a longstanding challenge for classical local Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. A popular remedy is to introduce a sequence of intermediate distributions that interpolate between the target and a simpler reference. The classical cho…

  79. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yasong Dai, Zeeshan Hayder, David Ahmedt-Aristizabal, Hongdong Li ·

    Probing Diffusion Denoising Dynamics for Contrastive Representation Learning

    arXiv:2607.09067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models exhibit unprecedented generative capability and contain rich intermediate representations that can be useful for discriminative vision tasks. Motivated by this observation, we study a focused question:…

  80. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Lingchen Sun, Rongyuan Wu, Zhengqiang Zhang, Ruibin Li, Yujing Sun, Shuaizheng Liu, Lei Zhang ·

    Self-transcendence: Is External Feature Guidance Indispensable for Accelerating Diffusion Transformer Training?

    arXiv:2601.07773v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent works such as REPA have shown that guiding diffusion models with external semantic features (e.g., DINO) can significantly accelerate the training of diffusion transformers (DiTs). However, the use of pretrained external …

  81. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Ruqi Zhang ·

    Sticky Jump Diffusions: A Unifying View of Masked, Continuous, and Hybrid Diffusion

    We introduce Sticky Jump Diffusions (SJDs), continuous-time Markov processes on $\mathbb R^d$ whose discrete anchors are token embeddings. In forward time, anchors release their mass at a hazard rate and the released mass diffuses in the continuous ambient space; time reversal co…

  82. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Henry D. Pfister ·

    Conservation Laws for Diffusion Models

    While autoregressive models optimize the exact data likelihood via the chain rule, diffusion models are typically trained with denoising objectives. We develop conservation laws based on generalized extrinsic information transfer (GEXIT) functions for a broad class of memoryless …

  83. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Yidong Ouyang, Zhe Wang, Sourav Bhabesh, Dmitriy Bespalov ·

    Reinforcing the Generation Order of Multimodal Masked Diffusion Models

    arXiv:2607.08056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently achieved substantial progress in natural language generation tasks. Recent research demonstrates that adaptive token generation ordering can significantly improve performance in mathe…

  84. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Cheng Wan, Bahram Jafrasteh, Ehsan Adeli, Miaomiao Zhang, Qingyu Zhao ·

    Anatomically Guided Latent Diffusion for Brain MRI Progression Modeling

    arXiv:2601.14584v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurately modeling longitudinal brain MRI progression is crucial for understanding neurodegenerative diseases and predicting individualized structural changes. Existing state-of-the-art approaches, such as Brain Latent Progress…

  85. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Siyuan Wen, Jiahao Zeng, Ningning Ding ·

    AutoAnchor: Stable Diffusion Unlearning Using Cross-Attention as a Manifold Surrogate

    arXiv:2607.08337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion unlearning is essential for mitigating the generation of harmful or copyrighted content in text-to-image models. Current diffusion unlearning techniques determine the model update direction by either using alternatives o…

  86. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Hongdong Li ·

    Probing Diffusion Denoising Dynamics for Contrastive Representation Learning

    Text-to-image diffusion models exhibit unprecedented generative capability and contain rich intermediate representations that can be useful for discriminative vision tasks. Motivated by this observation, we study a focused question: how can the denoising dynamics of a pretrained …

  87. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Ningning Ding ·

    AutoAnchor: Stable Diffusion Unlearning Using Cross-Attention as a Manifold Surrogate

    Diffusion unlearning is essential for mitigating the generation of harmful or copyrighted content in text-to-image models. Current diffusion unlearning techniques determine the model update direction by either using alternatives of the target concept as an anchor or using empty p…

  88. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Robert Gruhlke, Julius Berner, David Sommer, Lorenz Richter ·

    Tensor Train Diffusion: Leveraging Low-Rank Structures for High-Dimensional Score-Based Sampling

    arXiv:2607.06841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models offer a powerful framework for sampling from complex probability densities by learning to reverse a noising process. A common approach involves solving for the time-reversed stochastic differential equation (SDE), w…

  89. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Dmitriy Bespalov ·

    Reinforcing the Generation Order of Multimodal Masked Diffusion Models

    Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently achieved substantial progress in natural language generation tasks. Recent research demonstrates that adaptive token generation ordering can significantly improve performance in mathematical reasoning and code synthesis applications.…

  90. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Wanglong Lu, Lingming Su, Kaijie Shi, Minglun Gong, Xiaogang Jin, Hanli Zhao, Xianta Jiang ·

    Tuning-Free Latent Diffusion Models for Ultrahigh-Resolution Image Editing

    arXiv:2607.06136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent diffusion-based generative models have shown impressive performance in image generation and editing. However, due to memory limitations and the high cost of collecting high-resolution training images, existing methods are typ…

  91. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Lorenz Richter ·

    Tensor Train Diffusion: Leveraging Low-Rank Structures for High-Dimensional Score-Based Sampling

    Diffusion models offer a powerful framework for sampling from complex probability densities by learning to reverse a noising process. A common approach involves solving for the time-reversed stochastic differential equation (SDE), which requires the score function of the evolving…

  92. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Xianta Jiang ·

    Tuning-Free Latent Diffusion Models for Ultrahigh-Resolution Image Editing

    Recent diffusion-based generative models have shown impressive performance in image generation and editing. However, due to memory limitations and the high cost of collecting high-resolution training images, existing methods are typically restricted to inputs with linear resoluti…

  93. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Chunnan Shang, Xin Zhang, Zhizhong Wang, Hongwei Wang ·

    DICT: Data Injection and Contrastive Trajectory Refinement for Conditional Image Generation with Diffusion Models

    arXiv:2607.03899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have become a dominant paradigm for conditional image generation, yet existing approaches generally follow two directions: task-specific designs that can improve performance but limit generalization, and training-fr…

  94. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Aryan Das, Koushik Biswas, Moloud Abdar, Vinay Kumar Verma ·

    UNITY: Attention Flow Networks for Adaptive Conditioning in Diffusion

    arXiv:2606.20971v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce UNITY, a Universal-to-Specialized adapter for efficient and scalable composite conditioning in diffusion based image generation. Unlike prior methods that train separate adapters for each conditioning modality, UNIT…

  95. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Lijiang Li, Zuwei Long, Yunhang Shen, Heting Gao, Haoyu Cao, Xing Sun, Caifeng Shan, Ran He, Chaoyou Fu ·

    Omni-Diffusion: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Masked Discrete Diffusion

    arXiv:2603.06577v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made impressive strides, they predominantly employ a conventional autoregressive architecture as their backbone, leaving significant room to explore effective and effici…

  96. Sequoia Capital TIER_1 English(EN) · sbarry ·

    Partnering with Sable: Closing the Diffusion Gap

    <p>The post <a href="https://sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-sable-closing-the-diffusion-gap/">Partnering with Sable: Closing the Diffusion Gap</a> appeared first on <a href="https://sequoiacap.com">Sequoia Capital</a>.</p>

  97. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 Русский(RU) · Promptra Team ·

    stable diffusion 9009 and other numbers: why "SD4" doesn't exist and what to use instead

    <p>Чёрное окно консоли, строка <code>Couldn't launch python</code>, финал: <code>exit code: 9009</code>. Stable Diffusion не стартует, а поисковик по запросу «stable diffusion 9009» выдаёт всё подряд - от форумов по Windows до «новостей» про выход SD4. Спойлер сразу: 9009 - систе…

  98. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Gemini Team ·

    DiffusionGemma: The Developer Guide

    <p>Following our announcement in our <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/diffusion-gemma-faster-text-generation/" rel="noopener noreferrer">launch blog post</a>, we are sharing this developer guide to help you understand, serve and customize…

  99. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Savings-Display5123 ·

    LingBot-Video: sparse-MoE video diffusion transformer (13B total, 1.4B active) post-trained as an action-conditioned world model[R]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Single-stream diffusion transformer with a DeepSeek-V3-style sparse MoE (128 experts, top-8 routing, 1.4B active of 13B total). Six-reward RL post-training including a physical-plausibility reward, plus an action-to-video mode that predicts robot…

  100. r/StableDiffusion TIER_2 (AF) · /u/Course_Latter ·

    Visualizing diffusion models in hfviewer

    <table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1uss13d/visualizing_diffusion_models_in_hfviewer/"> <img alt="Visualizing diffusion models in hfviewer" src="https://external-preview.redd.it/YnU4cWE0am5lZmNoMcXtDsnCthSSb3yXDEZEpJhpeywVzsasg5ljAh9UCiuV.p…