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Minshuo Chen¹, Song Mei², Jianqing Fan³

¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton 08544, USA.

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Diffusion models are powerful AI tools for data generation and modeling. This paper explores their applications, theoretical challenges, and potential for structured optimization, aiming to spur future innovations.

Keywords:

diffusion model generative AI optimization sample generation under controls

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Area of Science:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Generative Models

Background:

Diffusion models are advanced generative AI with broad applications.
Their empirical success contrasts with limited theoretical understanding.
This gap hinders principled advancements in diffusion model development.

Purpose of the Study:

Review emerging applications of diffusion models.
Analyze their theoretical underpinnings using stochastic processes.
Identify challenges and propose solutions for diffusion model theory.

Main Methods:

Review of diffusion model applications and capabilities.
Analysis via stochastic processes to understand their working flow.
Exploration of diffusion models for high-dimensional structured optimization.

Main Results:

Diffusion models excel at flexible high-dimensional data modeling and controlled sample generation.
Theoretical challenges in analyzing diffusion models are identified.
Promising advances demonstrate their potential as distribution learners and samplers.

Conclusions:

Diffusion models offer significant potential beyond current applications.
Addressing theoretical challenges is crucial for future innovation.
Reformulating optimization as conditional sampling via diffusion models is a new avenue.