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most citedDiffusion models as plug-and-play priors

20 citations · 32 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CV2026

BigCell: Generating Gigapixel Whole-Slide Images

Srikar Yellapragada, Alexandros Graikos, Zilinghan Li +10

Whole-slide images (WSIs) are gigapixel-scale digital scans of histopathology tissue and serve as the primary basis for cancer diagnosis. Existing histopathology generative models…

cs.LG2026

On the spectral properties of generative denoiser Jacobians

Alexandros Graikos, Nebojsa Jojic, Dimitris Samaras

Generative denoising models, such as diffusion and flow-matching, learn to sample from complex distributions by training a deep neural network denoiser to recover clean data from n…

cs.CV2026

Poppy: Polarization-based Plug-and-Play Guidance for Enhancing Monocular Normal Estimation

Irene Kim, Sai Tanmay Reddy Chakkera, Alexandros Graikos +2

Monocular surface normal estimators trained on large-scale RGB-normal data often perform poorly in the edge cases of reflective, textureless, and dark surfaces. Polarization encode…

cs.CV2026

Generating metamers of human scene understanding

Ritik Raina, Abe Leite, Alexandros Graikos +3

Human vision combines low-resolution "gist" information from the visual periphery with sparse but high-resolution information from fixated locations to construct a coherent underst…

cs.CV2025

GriDiT: Factorized Grid-Based Diffusion for Efficient Long Image Sequence Generation

Snehal Singh Tomar, Alexandros Graikos, Arjun Krishna +2

Modern deep learning methods typically treat image sequences as large tensors of sequentially stacked frames. However, is this straightforward representation ideal given the curren…

cs.CV2025

Mitigating Diffusion Model Hallucinations with Dynamic Guidance

Kostas Triaridis, Alexandros Graikos, Aggelina Chatziagapi +2

Hallucinations in diffusion models are samples with structural inconsistencies that can emerge due to the excessive smoothing of the learned score function, which in turn leads to…

eess.IV2025★ 1 cited

PixCell: A generative foundation model for digital histopathology images

Srikar Yellapragada, Alexandros Graikos, Zilinghan Li +11

The digitization of histology slides has revolutionized pathology, providing massive datasets for cancer diagnosis and research. Self-supervised and vision-language models have bee…

cs.CV2025

PathSegDiff: Pathology Segmentation using Diffusion model representations

Sachin Kumar Danisetty, Alexandros Graikos, Srikar Yellapragada +1

Image segmentation is crucial in many computational pathology pipelines, including accurate disease diagnosis, subtyping, outcome, and survivability prediction. The common approach…

eess.IV2025

Pathology Image Compression with Pre-trained Autoencoders

Srikar Yellapragada, Alexandros Graikos, Kostas Triaridis +6

The growing volume of high-resolution Whole Slide Images in digital histopathology poses significant storage, transmission, and computational efficiency challenges. Standard compre…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Gen-SIS: Generative Self-augmentation Improves Self-supervised Learning

Varun Belagali, Srikar Yellapragada, Alexandros Graikos +7

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have emerged as strong visual representation learners by training an image encoder to maximize similarity between features of different views…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

ZoomLDM: Latent Diffusion Model for multi-scale image generation

Srikar Yellapragada, Alexandros Graikos, Kostas Triaridis +4

Diffusion models have revolutionized image generation, yet several challenges restrict their application to large-image domains, such as digital pathology and satellite imagery. Gi…

cs.CV2024

Fast constrained sampling in pre-trained diffusion models

Alexandros Graikos, Nebojsa Jojic, Dimitris Samaras

Large denoising diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have been trained on billions of image-caption pairs to perform text-conditioned image generation. As a byproduct of thi…

cs.CV2024

-Brush: Controllable Large Image Synthesis with Diffusion Models in Infinite Dimensions

Minh-Quan Le, Alexandros Graikos, Srikar Yellapragada +3

Synthesizing high-resolution images from intricate, domain-specific information remains a significant challenge in generative modeling, particularly for applications in large-image…

cs.CV2024

Diffusion-Refined VQA Annotations for Semi-Supervised Gaze Following

Qiaomu Miao, Alexandros Graikos, Jingwei Zhang +3

Training gaze following models requires a large number of images with gaze target coordinates annotated by human annotators, which is a laborious and inherently ambiguous process.…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Learned representation-guided diffusion models for large-image generation

Alexandros Graikos, Srikar Yellapragada, Minh-Quan Le +4

To synthesize high-fidelity samples, diffusion models typically require auxiliary data to guide the generation process. However, it is impractical to procure the painstaking patch-…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

PathLDM: Text conditioned Latent Diffusion Model for Histopathology

Srikar Yellapragada, Alexandros Graikos, Prateek Prasanna +3

To achieve high-quality results, diffusion models must be trained on large datasets. This can be notably prohibitive for models in specialized domains, such as computational pathol…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Conditional Generation from Unconditional Diffusion Models using Denoiser Representations

Alexandros Graikos, Srikar Yellapragada, Dimitris Samaras

Denoising diffusion models have gained popularity as a generative modeling technique for producing high-quality and diverse images. Applying these models to downstream tasks requir…

cs.CV2023

S-VolSDF: Sparse Multi-View Stereo Regularization of Neural Implicit Surfaces

Haoyu Wu, Alexandros Graikos, Dimitris Samaras

Neural rendering of implicit surfaces performs well in 3D vision applications. However, it requires dense input views as supervision. When only sparse input images are available, o…

cs.LG2023

GFlowNet-EM for learning compositional latent variable models

Edward J. Hu, Nikolay Malkin, Moksh Jain +3

Latent variable models (LVMs) with discrete compositional latents are an important but challenging setting due to a combinatorially large number of possible configurations of the l…

cs.LG2022★ 20 cited

Diffusion models as plug-and-play priors

Alexandros Graikos, Esmeralda S. Whitammer, Nebojsa Jojic +1

We consider the problem of inferring high-dimensional data in a model that consists of a prior and an auxiliary differentiable constraint $c(\mathbf{x}…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Resolving label uncertainty with implicit posterior models

Esther Rolf, Nikolay Malkin, Alexandros Graikos +3

We propose a method for jointly inferring labels across a collection of data samples, where each sample consists of an observation and a prior belief about the label. By implicitly…