TL;DR Preliminaries Fundamentals Conditional DMs Efficient DMs Generalized DMs References

Generative AI Meets 6G and Beyond: Diffusion Models for Semantic Communications

1Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) 2Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) 3University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) 4Tsinghua University (THU) 5Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (COMST), Under Review
TL;DR

Preliminaries

Discriminative vs. Generative Modeling

Fundamentals of Diffusion Models

Score Matching & Langevin Dynamics

Langevin Dynamics

Score-based Modeling Pipeline

Score-Based Modeling with SDEs

Forward-Reverse SDE Pipeline

Probability Flow ODEs & Solvers

Predictor-Corrector Method

Conditional Diffusion Models

Inference-time Conditional Diffusion Models

Inference-time Conditioning

Classifier Guidance (CG)

Estimator Guidance (DPS & BlindDPS)

Training-time Conditional Diffusion Models

Training-time Conditioning

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG)

1.0

Efficient Diffusion Methods

Dimensionality Reduction

Knowledge Distillation

Consistency Models

Structure Pruning

Cache Reuse

Flow Matching

Flow Matching Mechanism

Generalized Diffusion Models

Modality Expansion

Domain Adaptation

Schrödinger Bridges

Task Generalization

References