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20192026
most citedDataComp: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets

74 citations · 231 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

cs.GT2026

Diffusion-Based Auctions for Multi-Winner Banner Ads

Lilian Sun, Henry Huang, Fucheng Warren Zhu +2

We propose a new framework for banner ad auctions, leveraging diffusion models to allow for multiple bidders to co-win a single banner ad opportunity, and in particular influence t…

cs.LG2026

PoEM: Predicting RL Outcomes from Existing Policies

Kimia Hamidieh, Giannis Daras, Antonio Torralba

Foundation models are post-trained with reinforcement learning (RL) to maximize specific rewards, such as human alignment, correctness, or instruction following. This post-training…

cs.RO2026

Ambient Diffusion Policy: Imitation Learning from Suboptimal Data in Robotics

Adam Wei, Nicholas Pfaff, Thomas Cohn +4

We propose Ambient Diffusion Policy, a simple and principled method for imitation learning from suboptimal data in robotics. High-quality, task-specific robot data is expensive and…

cs.AI2026

Ambient Physics: Training Neural PDE Solvers with Partial Observations

Harris Abdul Majid, Giannis Daras, Francesco Tudisco +1

In many scientific settings, acquiring complete observations of PDE coefficients and solutions can be expensive, hazardous, or impossible. Recent diffusion-based methods can recons…

cs.LG2026

Ambient Dataloops: Generative Models for Dataset Refinement

Adrián Rodríguez-Muñoz, William Daspit, Adam Klivans +3

We propose Ambient Dataloops, an iterative framework for refining datasets that makes it easier for diffusion models to learn the underlying data distribution. Modern datasets cont…

cs.CV2025

Align & Invert: Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion and Flow-based Models via Representation Alignment

Loukas Sfountouris, Giannis Daras, Paris Giampouras

Enforcing alignment between the internal representations of diffusion or flow-based generative models and those of pretrained self-supervised encoders has recently been shown to pr…

cs.LG2025

DiffEM: Learning from Corrupted Data with Diffusion Models via Expectation Maximization

Danial Hosseintabar, Fan Chen, Giannis Daras +2

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative priors for high-dimensional inverse problems, yet learning them when only corrupted or noisy observations are available remains…

cs.GR2025

Ambient Diffusion Omni: Training Good Models with Bad Data

Giannis Daras, Adrian Rodriguez-Munoz, Adam Klivans +2

We show how to use low-quality, synthetic, and out-of-distribution images to improve the quality of a diffusion model. Typically, diffusion models are trained on curated datasets t…

cs.LG2025

Does Generation Require Memorization? Creative Diffusion Models using Ambient Diffusion

Kulin Shah, Alkis Kalavasis, Adam R. Klivans +1

There is strong empirical evidence that the state-of-the-art diffusion modeling paradigm leads to models that memorize the training set, especially when the training set is small.…

cs.LG2024

How much is a noisy image worth? Data Scaling Laws for Ambient Diffusion

Giannis Daras, Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri, Constantinos Daskalakis

The quality of generative models depends on the quality of the data they are trained on. Creating large-scale, high-quality datasets is often expensive and sometimes impossible, e.…

cs.CV2024

Warped Diffusion: Solving Video Inverse Problems with Image Diffusion Models

Giannis Daras, Weili Nie, Karsten Kreis +4

Using image models naively for solving inverse video problems often suffers from flickering, texture-sticking, and temporal inconsistency in generated videos. To tackle these probl…

cs.LG2024★ 10 cited

A Survey on Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems

Giannis Daras, Hyungjin Chung, Chieh-Hsin Lai +5

Diffusion models have become increasingly popular for generative modeling due to their ability to generate high-quality samples. This has unlocked exciting new possibilities for so…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models

Jeffrey Li, Alex Fang, Georgios Smyrnis +56

We introduce DataComp for Language Models (DCLM), a testbed for controlled dataset experiments with the goal of improving language models. As part of DCLM, we provide a standardize…

cs.CV2024

Consistent Diffusion Meets Tweedie: Training Exact Ambient Diffusion Models with Noisy Data

Giannis Daras, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Constantinos Daskalakis

Ambient diffusion is a recently proposed framework for training diffusion models using corrupted data. Both Ambient Diffusion and alternative SURE-based approaches for learning dif…

cs.CV2024

Ambient Diffusion Posterior Sampling: Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models Trained on Corrupted Data

Asad Aali, Giannis Daras, Brett Levac +3

We provide a framework for solving inverse problems with diffusion models learned from linearly corrupted data. Firstly, we extend the Ambient Diffusion framework to enable trainin…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Solving Linear Inverse Problems Provably via Posterior Sampling with Latent Diffusion Models

Litu Rout, Negin Raoof, Giannis Daras +3

We present the first framework to solve linear inverse problems leveraging pre-trained latent diffusion models. Previously proposed algorithms (such as DPS and DDRM) only apply to…

cs.LG2023★ 10 cited

Ambient Diffusion: Learning Clean Distributions from Corrupted Data

Giannis Daras, Kulin Shah, Yuval Dagan +3

We present the first diffusion-based framework that can learn an unknown distribution using only highly-corrupted samples. This problem arises in scientific applications where acce…

cs.CV2023★ 74 cited

DataComp: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets

Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Gabriel Ilharco, Alex Fang +31

Multimodal datasets are a critical component in recent breakthroughs such as Stable Diffusion and GPT-4, yet their design does not receive the same research attention as model arch…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Restoration-Degradation Beyond Linear Diffusions: A Non-Asymptotic Analysis For DDIM-Type Samplers

Sitan Chen, Giannis Daras, Alexandros G. Dimakis

We develop a framework for non-asymptotic analysis of deterministic samplers used for diffusion generative modeling. Several recent works have analyzed stochastic samplers using to…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

Consistent Diffusion Models: Mitigating Sampling Drift by Learning to be Consistent

Giannis Daras, Yuval Dagan, Alexandros G. Dimakis +1

Imperfect score-matching leads to a shift between the training and the sampling distribution of diffusion models. Due to the recursive nature of the generation process, errors in p…

cs.CV2022★ 7 cited

Multiresolution Textual Inversion

Giannis Daras, Alexandros G. Dimakis

We extend Textual Inversion to learn pseudo-words that represent a concept at different resolutions. This allows us to generate images that use the concept with different levels of…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Multitasking Models are Robust to Structural Failure: A Neural Model for Bilingual Cognitive Reserve

Giannis Daras, Negin Raoof, Zoi Gkalitsiou +1

We find a surprising connection between multitask learning and robustness to neuron failures. Our experiments show that bilingual language models retain higher performance under va…

cs.CV2022★ 29 cited

Soft Diffusion: Score Matching for General Corruptions

Giannis Daras, Mauricio Delbracio, Hossein Talebi +2

We define a broader family of corruption processes that generalizes previously known diffusion models. To reverse these general diffusions, we propose a new objective called Soft S…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Score-Guided Intermediate Layer Optimization: Fast Langevin Mixing for Inverse Problems

Giannis Daras, Yuval Dagan, Alexandros G. Dimakis +1

We prove fast mixing and characterize the stationary distribution of the Langevin Algorithm for inverting random weighted DNN generators. This result extends the work of Hand and V…