arXiv:2410. 01244v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a novel Wasserstein-1 ($W_1$) path-space divergence for stochastic and deterministic dynamics and establish a Wasserstein Uncertainty Propagation (WUP) theorem that bounds the $W_1$ distance between terminal distributions by the proposed divergence, equivalently characterized by a weighted $L^2$ discrepancy between the underlying drifts and the $W_1$ distance between their initial measures.
By Ziyu Chen, Markos A. Katsoulakis, Benjamin J. Zhang
arXiv:2605. 00161v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) are an attractive alternative to autoregressive models because they promise sublinear-time, parallel generation, yet practical gains remain elusive as high-quality samples still demand hundreds of refinement steps.
By Hasan Amin, Yuan Gao, Yaser Souri, Subhojit Som, Ming Yin, Rajiv Khanna, Xia Song
arXiv:2605. 29920v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Midpoint Generative Models (MGM), a principled framework for training one-step generative models.
By Daniil Shlenskii, Nikita Gushchin, Lev Novitskiy, Dmitry V. Dylov, Alexander Korotin
arXiv:2606. 30574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many modern generative modeling methods, including diffusion models, normalizing flows, and flow matching, estimate transport maps or plans between distributions without explicitly targeting an optimal transport (OT) map.
By Sivaraman Balakrishnan
arXiv:2607. 19332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models have undergone many generations of evolution, from VAEs/GANs to diffusion/flow matching.
By Chirag Vashist, Ke Li
Many modern generative modeling methods, including diffusion models, normalizing flows, and flow matching, estimate transport maps or plans between distributions without explicitly targeting an optimal transport (OT) map. In applications like generative modeling, the transport cost itself is irrelevant, and this makes it natural to target maps which are more tractable from either a statistical or computational standpoint.
arXiv:2608. 12438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We formulate generative modeling as a path integral in which flow-based, diffusion-based, variational, and adversarial models arise as different evaluation principles for a single master action.
By Ramon Winterhalder
arXiv:2602. 21429v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flow-based generative models, such as diffusion models and flow matching models, have achieved remarkable success in learning complex data distributions.
By Darshan Gadginmath, Ahmed Allibhoy, Fabio Pasqualetti
arXiv:2606. 07036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthetic histopathology image generation addresses critical challenges in computational pathology, including patient privacy and the growing need for large-scale training data for foundation models.
By Won June Cho, Daeky Jeong, Hyeongyeol Lim, Hongjun Yoon
arXiv:2606. 03820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop a quantitative approximation framework for diffusion distillation, viewing few-step sampling as error propagation under compositions of learned flow maps.
By Weiguo Gao, Ming Li, Lei Shi, Hanfei Zhou
Generative models have undergone many generations of evolution, from VAEs/GANs to diffusion/flow matching. Along the way, the underlying techniques have become more complicated and various beliefs about what drives strong empirical performance have taken hold.
arXiv:2608. 15144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Posterior sampling with a pretrained diffusion prior is governed by a conditional score whose intermediate likelihood component is generally intractable.
By Zhaoqiang Liu, Tongyao Pang, Ruibing Wang, Yang Zheng