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20192026
most citedRobust and interpretable blind image denoising via bias-free convolutional neural networks

34 citations · 52 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

q-bio.NC2026

Toward a mechanistic understanding of inference in visual cortex and diffusion models

Zeyu Yun, Alexander Belsten, Dasheng Bi +3

We describe a model of perceptual inference in primary visual cortex (V1) equivalent to a minimal diffusion model whose function can be readily understood from its parameters. The…

cs.LG2026

Blind denoising diffusion models and the blessings of dimensionality

Zahra Kadkhodaie, Aram-Alexandre Pooladian, Sinho Chewi +1

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) are state-of-the-art methods for learning densities from data across numerous domains, yet many aspects of the training and sampling pipeline rema…

cs.LG2025

Learning normalized image densities via dual score matching

Florentin Guth, Zahra Kadkhodaie, Eero P Simoncelli

Learning probability models from data is at the heart of many machine learning endeavors, but is notoriously difficult due to the curse of dimensionality. We introduce a new framew…

cs.CV2025

Unconditional CNN denoisers contain sparse semantic representation of images

Zahra Kadkhodaie, Stéphane Mallat, Eero Simoncelli

Generative diffusion models learn probability densities over diverse image datasets by estimating the score with a neural network trained to remove noise. Despite their remarkable…

cs.CV2024

Feature-guided score diffusion for sampling conditional densities

Zahra Kadkhodaie, Stéphane Mallat, Eero P. Simoncelli

Score diffusion methods can learn probability densities from samples. The score of the noise-corrupted density is estimated using a deep neural network, which is then used to itera…

cs.CV2024

Generalized Compressed Sensing for Image Reconstruction with Diffusion Probabilistic Models

Ling-Qi Zhang, Zahra Kadkhodaie, Eero P. Simoncelli +1

We examine the problem of selecting a small set of linear measurements for reconstructing high-dimensional signals. Well-established methods for optimizing such measurements includ…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Generalization in diffusion models arises from geometry-adaptive harmonic representations

Zahra Kadkhodaie, Florentin Guth, Eero P. Simoncelli +1

Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained for image denoising are able to generate high-quality samples with score-based reverse diffusion algorithms. These impressive capabilities seem…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Learning multi-scale local conditional probability models of images

Zahra Kadkhodaie, Florentin Guth, Stéphane Mallat +1

Deep neural networks can learn powerful prior probability models for images, as evidenced by the high-quality generations obtained with recent score-based diffusion methods. But th…

cs.CV2020★ 14 cited

Solving Linear Inverse Problems Using the Prior Implicit in a Denoiser

Zahra Kadkhodaie, Eero P. Simoncelli

Prior probability models are a fundamental component of many image processing problems, but density estimation is notoriously difficult for high-dimensional signals such as photogr…

eess.IV2019★ 34 cited

Robust and interpretable blind image denoising via bias-free convolutional neural networks

Sreyas Mohan, Zahra Kadkhodaie, Eero P. Simoncelli +1

Deep convolutional networks often append additive constant ("bias") terms to their convolution operations, enabling a richer repertoire of functional mappings. Biases are also used…