Proposition 1. Suppose that any signal The total observation loss is defined in Equation equation 4 below. After introducing some notation, we will formalize the assumptions made in the proposition. Definition 2. We define the scattering map as the (measurable) map sending signal In other words, given all possible observations of a signal, we can uniquely reconstruct the signal (for the class of signals under consideration). Observations generated by our model are slices of total observations. Thus, our model is limited to modeling the space over observations that are a member of the total observations set, i.e., The predicted distribution over signals can be recovered from the distribution over observations.

Denoising diffusion models are a powerful type of generative models used to capture complex distributions of real-world signals. However, their applicability is limited to scenarios where training samples are readily available, which is not always the case in real-world applications. For example, in inverse graphics, the goal is to generate samples from a distribution of 3D scenes that align with a given image, but ground-truth 3D scenes are unavailable and only 2D images are accessible. To address this limitation, we propose a novel class of denoising diffusion probabilistic models that learn to sample from distributions of signals that are never directly observed. Instead, these signals are measured indirectly through a known differentiable forward model, which produces partial observations of the unknown signal. Our approach involves integrating the forward model directly into the denoising process. This integration effectively connects the generative modeling of observations with the generative modeling of the underlying signals, allowing for end-to-end training of a conditional generative model over signals. During inference, our approach enables sampling from the distribution of underlying signals that are consistent with a given partial observation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on three challenging computer vision tasks. For instance, in the context of inverse graphics, our model enables direct sampling from the distribution of 3D scenes that align with a single 2D input image.

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