3 papers
cs.CV2026
Generative Manifold Distillation: Aligning Restoration Trajectories with Natural Image Prior
Yuyang Hu, Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan, Arpit Bansal +4
Pre-trained image restoration models often fail on out-of-distribution (OOD) real-world degradations. Adapting to these domains is challenging as real-world data lacks paired groun…
cs.LG2026
The Geometry of Noise: Why Diffusion Models Don't Need Noise Conditioning
Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan, Mauricio Delbracio, Peyman Milanfar
Autonomous (noise-agnostic) generative models, such as Equilibrium Matching and blind diffusion, challenge the standard paradigm by learning a single, time-invariant vector field t…
cs.CV2025
Kernel Density Steering: Inference-Time Scaling via Mode Seeking for Image Restoration
Yuyang Hu, Kangfu Mei, Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan +3
Diffusion models show promise for image restoration, but existing methods often struggle with inconsistent fidelity and undesirable artifacts. To address this, we introduce Kernel…