arXiv:2502. 04646v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Weighted sampling -- sampling from a probability density function (PDF) proportional to the product of a base PDF and a weight function -- is a fundamental technique with wide-ranging applications in variance reduction, biased sampling, data augmentation, and more.
By Heasung Kim, Taekyun Lee, Hyeji Kim, Gustavo de Veciana
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...
By Zhengyi Guo, Jiayuan Sheng, Wenpin Tang, David D. Yao
arXiv:2610.00873v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In many industrial applications, 1) tabular data is scarce and imbalanced and thus requires synthetic expansion; 2) input distributions drift between...
By Hongyu Cao, Xinyuan Wang, Arun Vignesh Malarkkan, Kunpeng Liu, Haifeng Chen, Yanjie Fu
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:2503. 07154v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative pre-training is often framed through a false dichotomy between autoregressive models for discrete signals and diffusion models for continuous signals.
By Jiaming Song, Linqi Zhou
The paper introduces Learned End-to-End Guidance Schedules (LEEGS) for diffusion models, which train a time‑dependent guidance schedule to balance data quality and requirement satisfaction while reducing sampling steps. LEEGS minimizes the guidance function over a small set of examples using stochastic gradient descent and employs a gradient approximation to cut training time by a factor of four. Experiments on tasks such as image inpainting, noisy image inverse problems, face‑ID‑guided generation, and PDE problems show that LEEGS outperforms baselines at the same computational budget or matches constant guidance with only 10% of the steps.
By Aneesh Barthakur, Mathias Niepert, Luiz F. O. Chamon
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
arXiv:2607. 23226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the empirical success of score-based diffusion models, a complete theoretical understanding of how finite-sample learning, network parameterization, and numerical discretization jointly dictate generative quality remains underdeveloped.
By Jinshu Huang, Yiming Jiang, Chunlin Wu
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.
By Yi Xiong, Yuan-Yuan Cheng, Xiao-Ming Fu
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.
By Xiaoxuan Liang, Saeid Naderiparizi, Berend Zwartsenberg, Frank Wood
arXiv:2604. 26985v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate discrete sequences by iterative denoising under an absorbing masking process.
By Michael Cardei, Huu Binh Ta, Ferdinando Fioretto
arXiv:2608. 09193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unsupervised time-series domain adaptation (DA) addresses the challenge of transferring a classifier from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain under distribution shifts induced by different users, sensors, devices, acquisition conditions, or temporal dynamics.
By Felix Ott, Christopher Mutschler