arXiv:2606. 13240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A key strength of diffusion models lies in their flexibility, since their outputs can be controlled at sampling time through guidance.
arXiv:2601. 08379v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pre-trained diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative priors for both unconditional and conditional sample generation, yet their outputs often deviate from the characteristics of user-specific target data.
arXiv:2608. 19504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a conditioning mechanism for diffusion models based on multi-speed joint diffusion of the target and the condition.
Diffusion models are increasingly used as controllable samplers, whose generations can be steered at inference time according to a chosen reward function. While such rewards are typically defined on individual samples, for many applications it is desirable to steer according to distribution-level rewards, for example to calibrate with population-level information or to encourage diversity.
arXiv:2608. 08770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models are increasingly used as controllable samplers, whose generations can be steered at inference time according to a chosen reward function.
The paper introduces a new method for conditioning degenerate diffusion models, which are generative models that rely on diffusion processes with singular diffusion coefficients. Traditional approaches use score functions for guidance, but this work employs causal optimal transport to define approximate loss functions that can identify a minimum‑entropy control even when conditional densities are non‑existent or non‑smooth. The method hinges on the predictable representation property of conditioned diffusion processes and the well‑posedness of their martingale problem, following the framework of "Ust"unel.
The paper addresses the challenge of guiding conditioned generative models that are diffusion processes with singular diffusion coefficients, where traditional conditional densities may be nonexistent or non‑smooth. It proposes using causal optimal transport to construct approximate loss functions that identify a minimum‑entropy control for guidance, relying on the predictable representation property of conditioned diffusion processes and well‑posed martingale problems à la Üstünel.
arXiv:2602. 05533v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study conditional generation in diffusion models under hard constraints, where generated samples must satisfy prescribed events with probability one.
The paper investigates training diffusion models to sample from distributions defined by unnormalized densities or energy functions. It benchmarks various diffusion-structured inference techniques, including simulation-based variational methods and off-policy approaches such as continuous generative flow networks, highlighting their relative strengths and challenging some prior claims. Additionally, the authors introduce a new exploration strategy for off-policy methods that employs local search in the target space with a replay buffer, demonstrating improved sample quality across multiple target distributions.
arXiv:2607. 14398v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Constrained generative models aim to produce samples that satisfy complex feasibility constraints while remaining faithful to the data distribution.
arXiv:2607. 20913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning large diffusion models for new domains or styles involves a trade-off: improving target-specific generation often degrades the pretrained model's broad generative capability.
arXiv:2603. 00045v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion language models theoretically allow for efficient parallel generation but are practically hindered by the ``factorization barrier'': the assumption that simultaneously predicted tokens are independent.
arXiv:2609.31882v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reward-based diffusion fine-tuning faces practical challenges when desirable outcomes are rare or conditioning corrections are costly to esti...