arXiv AI

On the Collapse of Generative Paths: A Criterion and Correction for Diffusion Steering

arXiv:2512. 10339v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Inference-time steering adapts pretrained diffusion and flow models to new tasks without retraining, often utilizing ratio-of-densities constructions that reweight time-indexed marginals with fixed exponents.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 22

Analytic Distribution of Classifier-Free Guidance for Schedule Design

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the default mechanism for conditional generation in diffusion models, but the distribution sampled by its deterministic guided dynamics is not captured by the usual product-distribution heuristic $p_0^ωq_0^{1-ω}$. We analyze CFG through the probability flow ODE and derive exact analytic path-integral representations of the induced distributions for both constant and time-dependent guidance.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Oct 28

Logical Guidance of Stochastic Interpolants

The paper introduces LOGSI, a method for logically guiding stochastic interpolants in generative models. LOGSI enables exact composition of conditional velocities for negation and exclusive disjunction, while handling conjunctions through score-based re-equilibration and Gaussian-path approximations. Experiments on image transfer and molecular editing demonstrate improved rule conformity and fidelity compared to baseline composed-velocity approaches.

arXiv AI
Jun 24

Catastrophic Compositional Generation: Why Vanilla Diffusion Models Fail to Extrapolate

arXiv:2606. 23920v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The task of compositional generation involves using a conditional generative model, trained only on a subset of the possible conditions, to produce samples from compositionally-defined target distributions such as a geometric combination of the source distributions.

By Duncan Soiffer, Chandler Squires, Yuan Guan, Jason Hartford, Pradeep Ravikumar
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 3

Specificity-Aware Diffusion Steering via Variance-Reduced Sequential Monte Carlo

The paper introduces a method for specificity‑aware diffusion steering that suppresses undesired samples while preserving desired ones. By formulating the problem as a target‑design task, it derives a time‑dependent target distribution based on overlap between positive and negative reference distributions, and samples from it using a variance‑reduced Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) sampler. Experiments on synthetic, class‑contrastive, text‑to‑image, and peptide‑MHC tasks demonstrate reduced mode shift, improved sampling stability, and better suppression of undesired regions compared to negative‑guidance baselines.

By Luran Wang, Linrui Ma, Hannes St\"ark, Regina Barzilay
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Don't Retrain, Just Reuse: Recovering Dual-Target Molecules from Single-Target Diffusion Models

arXiv:2605. 25681v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Designing a single molecule that modulates two targets is a promising strategy for polypharmacology, but it remains substantially harder than standard single-target generation because one candidate must satisfy two binding requirements while preserving drug-likeness and synthesizability.

By Qingyuan Zeng, Pengxiang Cai, Zixin Guan, Ziyang Chen, Anglin Liu, Xinyao Lai, Jintai Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

PocketVE: Stable and Property-Guided Structure-Based Drug Design with Variance-Exploding Diffusion

PocketVE is a protein-pocket-conditioned variance‑exploding diffusion framework that integrates stable 3D coordinate denoising, classifier‑free property guidance, and adaptive protein perturbation. It improves 3D validity from 58.6% to 80.6% and reduces strain energy from 457.4 to 127.9 on CrossDocked2020 while maintaining competitive docking and property scores. The study shows moderate guidance balances target objectives with geometric quality, and diagnostics confirm enhanced pocket compatibility.

By Peining Zhang, Jinbo Bi