From Images to Programs: A Denoising Diffusion Method for Inverse Graphics

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Abstract and 1. Introduction

1. Background & Related Work

2. Method

   3.1 Sampling Small Mutations

   3.2 Policy

   3.3 Value Network & Search

   3.4 Architecture

3. Experiments

   4.1 Environments

   4.2 Baselines

   4.3 Ablations

4. Conclusion, Acknowledgments and Disclosure of Funding, and References

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Appendix

A. Mutation Algorithm

B. Context-Free Grammars

C. Sketch Simulation

D. Complexity Filtering

E. Tree Path Algorithm

F. Implementation Details

3 Method

The main idea behind our method is to develop a form of denoising diffusion models analogous to image diffusion models for syntax trees.

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:::info Authors:

(1) Shreyas Kapur, University of California, Berkeley ([e-mail]);

(2) Erik Jenner, University of California, Berkeley ([e-mail]);

(3) Stuart Russell, University of California, Berkeley ([e-mail]).

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