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Zhaoqiang Liu

24 accepted papers

2025

Integrating Intermediate Layer Optimization and Projected Gradient Descent for Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models

ICML 2025poster

Inverse problems (IPs) involve reconstructing signals from noisy observations. Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as a powerful framework for solving IPs, achieving remarkable reconstruction performance. However, existing DM-based methods frequently encounter issues such as heavy computat…

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2024

Accelerating Diffusion Sampling with Optimized Time Steps

CVPR 2024poster

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown remarkable performance in high-resolution image synthesis but their sampling efficiency is still to be desired due to the typically large number of sampling steps. Recent advancements in high-order numerical ODE solvers for DPMs have enabled the gener…

2024

The Surprising Effectiveness of Skip-Tuning in Diffusion Sampling

ICML 2024poster

With the incorporation of the UNet architecture, diffusion probabilistic models have become a dominant force in image generation tasks. One key design in UNet is the skip connections between the encoder and decoder blocks. Although skip connections have been shown to improve training stability and m…

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2023

A Unified Framework for Uniform Signal Recovery in Nonlinear Generative Compressed Sensing

NeurIPS 2023poster

In generative compressed sensing (GCS), we want to recover a signal $\mathbf{x^*}\in\mathbb{R}^n$ from $m$ measurements ($m\ll n$) using a generative prior $\mathbf{x^*}\in G(\mathbb{B}_2^k(r))$, where $G$ is typically an $L$-Lipschitz continuous generative model and $\mathbb{B}_2^k(r)$ represents t…

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2023

DDP: Diffusion Model for Dense Visual Prediction

ICCV 2023poster

We propose a simple, efficient, yet powerful framework for dense visual predictions based on the conditional diffusion pipeline. Our approach follows a "noise-to-map" generative paradigm for prediction by progressively removing noise from a random Gaussian distribution, guided by the image. The meth…

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2023

DiffFit: Unlocking Transferability of Large Diffusion Models via Simple Parameter-efficient Fine-Tuning

ICCV 2023oral

Diffusion models have proven to be highly effective in generating high-quality images. However, adapting large pre-trained diffusion models to new domains remains an open challenge, which is critical for real-world applications. This paper proposes DiffFit, a parameter-efficient strategy to fine-tun…

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2022

Generative Principal Component Analysis

ICLR 2022poster

In this paper, we study the problem of principal component analysis with generative modeling assumptions, adopting a general model for the observed matrix that encompasses notable special cases, including spiked matrix recovery and phase retrieval. The key assumption is that the first principal eige…

2022

Projected Gradient Descent Algorithms for Solving Nonlinear Inverse Problems with Generative Priors

IJCAI 2022poster

In this paper, we propose projected gradient descent (PGD) algorithms for signal estimation from noisy nonlinear measurements. We assume that the unknown signal lies near the range of a Lipschitz continuous generative model with bounded inputs. In particular, we consider two cases when the nonlinear…

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2021

Towards Sample-Optimal Compressive Phase Retrieval with Sparse and Generative Priors

NeurIPS 2021poster

Compressive phase retrieval is a popular variant of the standard compressive sensing problem in which the measurements only contain magnitude information. In this paper, motivated by recent advances in deep generative models, we provide recovery guarantees with near-optimal sample complexity for pha…

2020

Sample Complexity Bounds for 1-bit Compressive Sensing and Binary Stable Embeddings with Generative Priors

ICML 2020poster

The goal of standard 1-bit compressive sensing is to accurately recover an unknown sparse vector from binary-valued measurements, each indicating the sign of a linear function of the vector. Motivated by recent advances in compressive sensing with generative models, where a generative modeling assum…

2017

Relative error bounds for nonnegative matrix factorization under a geometric assumption

ICASSP 2017accepted

We propose a geometric assumption on nonnegative data matrices such that under this assumption, we are able to provide upper bounds (both deterministic and probabilistic) on the relative error of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). The algorithm we propose first uses the geometric assumption to…

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