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Karsten Kreis

40 accepted papers

2026

Exploring Synthesizable Chemical Space with Iterative Pathway Refinements

ICLR 2026oral

A well-known pitfall of molecular generative models is that they are not guaranteed to generate synthesizable molecules. Existing solutions for this problem often struggle to effectively navigate exponentially large combinatorial space of synthesizable molecules and suffer from poor coverage. To add…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

La-Proteina: Atomistic Protein Generation via Partially Latent Flow Matching

ICLR 2026poster

Recently, many generative models for de novo protein structure design have emerged. Yet, only few tackle the difficult task of directly generating fully atomistic structures jointly with the underlying amino acid sequence. This is challenging, for instance, because the model must reason over side ch…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Scaling Atomistic Protein Binder Design with Generative Pretraining and Test-Time Compute

ICLR 2026oral

Protein interaction modeling is central to protein design, which has been transformed by machine learning with broad applications in drug discovery and beyond. In this landscape, structure-based de novo binder design is most often cast as either conditional generative modeling or sequence optimizati…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Efficient Molecular Conformer Generation with SO(3)-Averaged Flow Matching and Reflow

ICML 2025poster

Fast and accurate generation of molecular conformers is desired for downstream computational chemistry and drug discovery tasks. Currently, training and sampling state-of-the-art diffusion or flow-based models for conformer generation require significant computational resources. In this work, we bui…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Elucidated Rolling Diffusion Models for Probabilistic Forecasting of Complex Dynamics

NeurIPS 2025poster

Diffusion models are a powerful tool for probabilistic forecasting, yet most applications in high-dimensional complex systems predict future states individually. This approach struggles to model complex temporal dependencies and fails to explicitly account for the progressive growth of uncertainty i…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Energy-Based Diffusion Language Models for Text Generation

ICLR 2025poster

Despite remarkable progress in autoregressive language models, alternative generative paradigms beyond left-to-right generation are still being actively explored. Discrete diffusion models, with the capacity for parallel generation, have recently emerged as a promising alternative. Unfortunately, th…

2025

GenMol: A Drug Discovery Generalist with Discrete Diffusion

ICML 2025poster

Drug discovery is a complex process that involves multiple stages and tasks. However, existing molecular generative models can only tackle some of these tasks. We present *Generalist Molecular generative model* (GenMol), a versatile framework that uses only a *single* discrete diffusion model to han…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2025

ProtComposer: Compositional Protein Structure Generation with 3D Ellipsoids

ICLR 2025oral

We develop ProtComposer to generate protein structures conditioned on spatial protein layouts that are specified via a set of 3D ellipsoids capturing substructure shapes and semantics. At inference time, we condition on ellipsoids that are hand-constructed, extracted from existing proteins, or from…

2025

Proteina: Scaling Flow-based Protein Structure Generative Models

ICLR 2025oral

Recently, diffusion- and flow-based generative models of protein structures have emerged as a powerful tool for de novo protein design. Here, we develop *Proteina*, a new large-scale flow-based protein backbone generator that utilizes hierarchical fold class labels for conditioning and relies on a t…

2024

Align Your Gaussians: Text-to-4D with Dynamic 3D Gaussians and Composed Diffusion Models

CVPR 2024highlight

Text-guided diffusion models have revolutionized image and video generation and have also been successfully used for optimization-based 3D object synthesis. Here we instead focus on the underexplored text-to-4D setting and synthesize dynamic animated 3D objects using score distillation methods with…

Cited by 110SourcePDFScholar
2024

Align Your Steps: Optimizing Sampling Schedules in Diffusion Models

ICML 2024poster

Diffusion models (DMs) have established themselves as the state-of-the-art generative modeling approach in the visual domain and beyond. A crucial drawback of DMs is their slow sampling speed, relying on many sequential function evaluations through large neural networks. Sampling from DMs can be see…

Cited by 21SourcePDFScholar
2024

Aligning Target-Aware Molecule Diffusion Models with Exact Energy Optimization

NeurIPS 2024poster

Generating ligand molecules for specific protein targets, known as structure-based drug design, is a fundamental problem in therapeutics development and biological discovery. Recently, target-aware generative models, especially diffusion models, have shown great promise in modeling protein-ligand in…

2024

DisCo-Diff: Enhancing Continuous Diffusion Models with Discrete Latents

ICML 2024poster

Diffusion models (DMs) have revolutionized generative learning. They utilize a diffusion process to encode data into a simple Gaussian distribution. However, encoding a complex, potentially multimodal data distribution into a single *continuous* Gaussian distribution arguably represents an unnecessa…

2024

L4GM: Large 4D Gaussian Reconstruction Model

NeurIPS 2024poster

We present L4GM, the first 4D Large Reconstruction Model that produces animated objects from a single-view video input -- in a single feed-forward pass that takes only a second. Key to our success is a novel dataset of multiview videos containing curated, rendered animated objects from Objaverse. Th…

Cited by 38SourcePDFScholar
2024

Molecule Generation with Fragment Retrieval Augmentation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Fragment-based drug discovery, in which molecular fragments are assembled into new molecules with desirable biochemical properties, has achieved great success. However, many fragment-based molecule generation methods show limited exploration beyond the existing fragments in the database as they only…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

Outdoor Scene Extrapolation with Hierarchical Generative Cellular Automata

CVPR 2024highlight

We aim to generate fine-grained 3D geometry from large-scale sparse LiDAR scans abundantly captured by autonomous vehicles (AV). Contrary to prior work on AV scene completion we aim to extrapolate fine geometry from unlabeled and beyond spatial limits of LiDAR scans taking a step towards generating…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Warped Diffusion: Solving Video Inverse Problems with Image Diffusion Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Using image models naively for solving inverse video problems often suffers from flickering, texture-sticking, and temporal inconsistency in generated videos. To tackle these problems, in this paper, we view frames as continuous functions in the 2D space, and videos as a sequence of continuous warpi…

2024

WildFusion: Learning 3D-Aware Latent Diffusion Models in View Space

ICLR 2024poster

Modern learning-based approaches to 3D-aware image synthesis achieve high photorealism and 3D-consistent viewpoint changes for the generated images. Existing approaches represent instances in a shared canonical space. However, for in-the-wild datasets a shared canonical system can be difficult to de…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2023

Align Your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis With Latent Diffusion Models

CVPR 2023poster

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable high-quality image synthesis while avoiding excessive compute demands by training a diffusion model in a compressed lower-dimensional latent space. Here, we apply the LDM paradigm to high-resolution video generation, a particularly resource-intensive task. We fi…

2023

DreamTeacher: Pretraining Image Backbones with Deep Generative Models

ICCV 2023poster

In this work, we introduce a self-supervised feature representation learning framework DreamTeacher that utilizes generative networks for pre-training downstream image backbones. We propose to distill knowledge from a trained generative model into standard image backbones that have been well enginee…

Cited by 23PDFScholar
2023

Magic3D: High-Resolution Text-to-3D Content Creation

CVPR 2023highlight

Recently, DreamFusion demonstrated the utility of a pretrained text-to-image diffusion model to optimize Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), achieving remarkable text-to-3D synthesis results. However, the method has two inherent limitations: 1) optimization of the NeRF representation is extremely slow, 2…

Cited by 1196SourcePDFScholar
2023

NeuralField-LDM: Scene Generation With Hierarchical Latent Diffusion Models

CVPR 2023poster

Automatically generating high-quality real world 3D scenes is of enormous interest for applications such as virtual reality and robotics simulation. Towards this goal, we introduce NeuralField-LDM, a generative model capable of synthesizing complex 3D environments. We leverage Latent Diffusion Model…

2023

TexFusion: Synthesizing 3D Textures with Text-Guided Image Diffusion Models

ICCV 2023oral

We present TexFusion(Texture Diffusion), a new method to synthesize textures for given 3D geometries, using only large-scale text-guided image diffusion models. In contrast to recent works that leverage 2D text-to-image diffusion models to distill 3D objects using a slow and fragile optimization pro…

Cited by 99PDFcodeScholar
2023

Trace and Pace: Controllable Pedestrian Animation via Guided Trajectory Diffusion

CVPR 2023poster

We introduce a method for generating realistic pedestrian trajectories and full-body animations that can be controlled to meet user-defined goals. We draw on recent advances in guided diffusion modeling to achieve test-time controllability of trajectories, which is normally only associated with rule…

Cited by 118SourcePDFScholar
2022

BigDatasetGAN: Synthesizing ImageNet With Pixel-Wise Annotations

CVPR 2022poster

Annotating images with pixel-wise labels is a time-consuming and costly process. Recently, DatasetGAN showcased a promising alternative - to synthesize a large labeled dataset via a generative adversarial network (GAN) by exploiting a small set of manually labeled, GAN-generated images. Here, we sca…

Cited by 121PDFScholar
2022

LION: Latent Point Diffusion Models for 3D Shape Generation

NeurIPS 2022accept

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have shown promising results in 3D point cloud synthesis. To advance 3D DDMs and make them useful for digital artists, we require (i) high generation quality, (ii) flexibility for manipulation and applications such as conditional synthesis and shape interpolation, a…

2022

Polymorphic-GAN: Generating Aligned Samples Across Multiple Domains With Learned Morph Maps

CVPR 2022oral

Modern image generative models show remarkable sample quality when trained on a single domain or class of objects. In this work, we introduce a generative adversarial network that can simultaneously generate aligned image samples from multiple related domains. We leverage the fact that a variety of…

Cited by 9PDFScholar
2022

Score-Based Generative Modeling with Critically-Damped Langevin Diffusion

ICLR 2022spotlight

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have demonstrated remarkable synthesis quality. SGMs rely on a diffusion process that gradually perturbs the data towards a tractable distribution, while the generative model learns to denoise. The complexity of this denoising task is, apart from the data distrib…

2022

Tackling the Generative Learning Trilemma with Denoising Diffusion GANs

ICLR 2022spotlight

A wide variety of deep generative models has been developed in the past decade. Yet, these models often struggle with simultaneously addressing three key requirements including: high sample quality, mode coverage, and fast sampling. We call the challenge imposed by these requirements the generative…

2021

ATISS: Autoregressive Transformers for Indoor Scene Synthesis

NeurIPS 2021poster

The ability to synthesize realistic and diverse indoor furniture layouts automatically or based on partial input, unlocks many applications, from better interactive 3D tools to data synthesis for training and simulation. In this paper, we present ATISS, a novel autoregressive transformer architectur…

2021

Don’t Generate Me: Training Differentially Private Generative Models with Sinkhorn Divergence

NeurIPS 2021poster

Although machine learning models trained on massive data have led to breakthroughs in several areas, their deployment in privacy-sensitive domains remains limited due to restricted access to data. Generative models trained with privacy constraints on private data can sidestep this challenge, providi…

Cited by 83SourcePDFScholar
2021

EditGAN: High-Precision Semantic Image Editing

NeurIPS 2021poster

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have recently found applications in image editing. However, most GAN-based image editing methods often require large-scale datasets with semantic segmentation annotations for training, only provide high-level control, or merely interpolate between different ima…

Cited by 280SourcePDFScholar
2021

Neural Geometric Level of Detail: Real-Time Rendering With Implicit 3D Shapes

CVPR 2021poster

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically encode the SDF with a large, fixed-size neural network to approximate complex shapes with implicit surfaces. Rendering with these large networks is, however, computat…

Cited by 543PDFcodeScholar
2021

Semantic Segmentation With Generative Models: Semi-Supervised Learning and Strong Out-of-Domain Generalization

CVPR 2021poster

Training deep networks with limited labeled data while achieving a strong generalization ability is key in the quest to reduce human annotation efforts. This is the goal of semi-supervised learning, which exploits more widely available unlabeled data to complement small labeled data sets. In this pa…

Cited by 241PDFcodeScholar
2021

VAEBM: A Symbiosis between Variational Autoencoders and Energy-based Models

ICLR 2021spotlight

Energy-based models (EBMs) have recently been successful in representing complex distributions of small images. However, sampling from them requires expensive Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) iterations that mix slowly in high dimensional pixel space. Unlike EBMs, variational autoencoders (VAEs) gene…