arXiv:2310. 05264v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this work, we investigate an intriguing and prevalent phenomenon of diffusion models which we term as "consistent model reproducibility": given the same starting noise input and a deterministic sampler, different diffusion models often yield remarkably similar outputs.
By Huijie Zhang, Jinfan Zhou, Yifu Lu, Minzhe Guo, Peng Wang, Liyue Shen, Qing Qu
The paper argues that the concrete random noise used in diffusion models is not merely a passive perturbation but a learnable input that can be exploited by the model. By analyzing how clean data and realized noise jointly form the noisy input, the authors show that the model can learn regularities in the data or in the noise structure, and that these two routes can interact. Experiments on MNIST and CIFAR‑10 using pseudorandom streams demonstrate that structured‑noise training can reduce prediction loss, but this advantage disappears when test noise is replaced with IID noise, indicating that the learned dependence is tied to the specific noise structure.
By Shengzhi Deng, Chenqi Ye, Yanze Guo
arXiv:2609.39648v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Diffusion models are typically viewed as stochastic processes that transform noise into data. We take a complementary perspective: a diffusion model...
By Cristina L\'opez Amado, Marco Fumero, Francesco Locatello
arXiv:2609.08253v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance on diverse generation tasks. Recent work finds that imposing representation alignment on the hidden...
By Yuehao Wang, Peihao Wang, Hanwen Jiang, Ziyi Yang, Qixing Huang, Zhangyang Wang
arXiv:2606. 13796v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recursive training of generative models on their own outputs can lead to model collapse, a compounding drift away from the true data distribution.
By Na\"il B. Khelifa, Richard E. Turner, Ramji Venkataramanan
arXiv:2603. 12901v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative models, their learning dynamics remain poorly understood.
By Lorenzo Bardone, Claudia Merger, Sebastian Goldt
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:2607. 20540v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How should a diffusion model decide which noise levels to train on, and how much?
By Luca Ambrogioni, Giulio Franzese, Alberto Foresti, Gabriel Raya, Bac Nguyen, Georgios Batzolis, Yuhta Takida, Naoki Murata, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yuki Mitsufuji
arXiv:2608. 02575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models rely on stochastic inputs, yet on finite-precision hardware, the "randomness" they consume is realized as deterministic numerical orbits generated by pseudorandom rules.
By Shengzhi Deng, Chenqi Ye, Yanze Guo
arXiv:2606. 09718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities and have also emerged as powerful self-supervised representation learners, yet the connection between these two abilities remains less explored.
By Xiao Li, Yixuan Jia, Zekai Zhang, Xiang Li, Lianghe Shi, Jinxin Zhou, Zhihui Zhu, Liyue Shen, Qing Qu
arXiv:2409. 02426v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite their empirical success across a wide range of generative tasks, the fundamental principles underlying the ability of diffusion models to learn data distributions are poorly understood.
By Peng Wang, Huijie Zhang, Zekai Zhang, Siyi Chen, Yi Ma, Qing Qu
The paper investigates diffusion models trained in a lazy high‑dimensional regime, extending benign overfitting theory to generative settings. By analyzing denoising score matching in a vector‑valued RKHS with an inner‑product kernel, the authors derive exact risk trajectories under gradient flow when the number of samples scales proportionally with dimensionality. These trajectories reveal three distinct phases—spectral generalization, noise‑dominated interpolation, and empirical Bayes memorization—whose interplay shapes the distribution of generated samples.
By Hugo Latourelle-Vigeant, Sinho Chewi, Aram-Alexandre Pooladian, John Sous, Theodor Misiakiewicz