Diffusion models (DMs) are powerful image priors in Bayesian computational imaging.
Two primary strategies for leveraging DMs are Plug-and-Play methods and specialized conditional DMs.
A novel framework integrating deep unfolding and model distillation transforms a DM image prior into a few-step conditional model for posterior sampling.
The approach includes unfolding a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm and achieves excellent accuracy, efficiency, and flexibility in adapting to variations in the forward model.