Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods are a natural tool for post-hoc conditioning of pretrained generative models, but in many applications the mutation kernels used by the particle system are biased approximations of an ideal Feynman--Kac flow. This paper develops a non-asymptotic error analysis for such SMC samplers.
arXiv:2607.04780v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Post-hoc conditioning of pretrained diffusion models can be addressed using Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods. By evolving an interacting...
By Stanislas Strasman (SU, LPSM), Gabriel Victorino Cardoso (STIM), Sylvain Le Corff (LPSM), Vincent Lemaire (LPSM), Antonio Ocello
arXiv:2610.01933v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Inference-time scaling adapts pretrained diffusion models to new sampling tasks without additional training. Existing methods rely primarily on Monte C...
By Zuokai Wen, Louis Grenioux, Weinan E, Jiequn Han
arXiv:2609.35947v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Many inference-time tasks for pretrained discrete diffusion models and diffusion language models reduce to drawing samples from a tilted version of the...
By Yinuo Ren, Haoxuan Chen, Grant M. Rotskoff, Jiequn Han, Lexing Ying
arXiv:2601. 21868v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding the stability and long-time behavior of generative models is a fundamental problem in modern machine learning.
By Stanislas Strasman, Gabriel Cardoso, Sylvain Le Corff, Vincent Lemaire, Antonio Ocello
arXiv:2609.37227v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Inference-time steering adapts pretrained diffusion and flow-based models to new tasks, e.g., to generate samples from a conditional distribution or sa...
By Adhithyan Kalaivanan, Zheng Zhao, Jens Sj\"olund, Fredrik Lindsten
The paper introduces Particle GFlowNets, showing that Generative Marginalization Models (MaMs) are equivalent to Generative Flow Networks. It extends MaMs to non‑autoregressive sampling and proposes an automatic full‑state rejuvenation criterion based on the Gelman‑Rubin statistic to accelerate learning. Experiments demonstrate significant training speedups in large combinatorial spaces.
By Tiago da Silva, Diego Mesquita, Salem Lahlou
arXiv:2608. 20123v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study inference-time control for text generation in discrete diffusion language models, where the goal is to steer sampling toward sequence-level rewards without retraining.
By Lohithsai Yadala Chanchu, Hany Abdulsamad, Christian A. Naesseth
arXiv:2512. 08022v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a novel diffusion-based posterior sampling method within a plug-and-play framework.
By Jinyuan Chang, Chenguang Duan, Yuling Jiao, Ruoxuan Li, Jerry Zhijian Yang, Cheng Yuan
arXiv:2407.05790v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: This paper introduces and analyses interacting underdamped Langevin algorithms, termed Kinetic Interacting Particle Langevin Monte Carlo (KIP...
By Paul Felix Valsecchi Oliva, O. Deniz Akyildiz
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.
By Marcin Sendera, Minsu Kim, Sarthak Mittal, Pablo Lemos, Luca Scimeca, Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Alexandre Adam, Yoshua Bengio, Esmeralda S. Whitammer
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