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
Score-based Generative Models (SGMs) have achieved impressive performance in data generation across a wide range of applications. While the statistical properties of their sampling procedures are increasingly well understood, the optimization dynamics underlying their training remain less explored.
arXiv:2306.08757v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality samples, their latent variables typically lack semantic meaning and are not suitable...
By Yingheng Wang, Yair Schiff, Aaron Gokaslan, Weishen Pan, Fei Wang, Christopher De Sa, Volodymyr Kuleshov
arXiv:2501. 09876v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative modeling aims to generate new data samples that resemble a given dataset.
By Wonjun Lee, Riley C. W. O'Neill, Dongmian Zou, Jeff Calder, Gilad Lerman
Normalizing flows are powerful generative models that learn an invertible mapping between complex data distributions and simple latent distributions, typically a standard normal density. However, this choice of latent density can impose unnecessary complexity on the learned flow transformation due to the topological mismatch between the latent and data densities, leading to slower training and suboptimal performance.
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
The paper introduces a transformer-based framework that learns an in‑context score operator for diffusion models, allowing the model to perform reverse‑diffusion sampling on unseen target distributions specified by a small empirical context set. By representing the task‑dependent score as a Gaussian‑kernel conditional mean and approximating it with a transformer‑based query‑dependent attention architecture, the method can adapt to new tasks without retraining or parameter updates. The authors provide theoretical generalization‑error bounds and evaluate the approach on scientific and visual datasets, noting strong performance on simple task families and limitations as task complexity grows.
By Wuzhe Xu, Zhaiming Shen, Yulong Lu, Wenjing Liao, Rongjie Lai
arXiv:2512. 20963v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models excel at generating high-quality, diverse samples, yet they risk memorizing training data when overfit to the training objective.
By Zekai Zhang, Xiao Li, Xiang Li, Lianghe Shi, Meng Wu, Molei Tao, Qing Qu
arXiv:2607. 04775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Score-based Generative Models (SGMs) have achieved impressive performance in data generation across a wide range of applications.
By Stanislas Strasman (SU, LPSM), Sobihan Surendran (SU, LPSM), Sylvain Le Corff (SU, LPSM)
arXiv:2112.09646v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The generation of discontinuous distributions is a difficult task for most known frameworks such as generative autoencoders and generative adversar...
By Mariia Drozdova, Vitaliy Kinakh, Guillaume Qu\'etant, Tobias Golling, Slava Voloshynovskiy
arXiv:2608.29335v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Latent generative models typically follow a two-stage pipeline, training a variational autoencoder for reconstruction and then a generative model on th...
By Guangting Zheng, Yiyuan Zhang, Tao Yang, Yunpeng Chen, Rui Zhu, Jiajun Deng, Yanyong Zhang
arXiv:2609.37533v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate sequences by progressively unmasking several tokens per denoising step, but their reverse process is typically...
By Arseny Ivanov, Alexander Kolesov, Alexander Korotin, Ivan Oseledets, Mikhail Goncharov