arXiv AI

ResilPhase: Plug-and-Play Phase Mapping and Noise-Resilient Macro-Trajectory Extrapolation for Diffusion Acceleration

arXiv:2606. 26769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The adoption of powerful diffusion models is hindered by their significant inference latency.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 7

Kastor: An efficient fine-tuning strategy for generative emulation of PDE simulations

arXiv:2608. 06107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning offers a promising avenue to accelerate physical simulations by replacing computationally expensive traditional Partial Differential Equation (PDE) solvers with fast, differentiable surrogate models.

By Guillaume Couairon, Alexis Jacq, Yu-Han Wu, Renu Singh, Yana Hasson, Quentin Berthet, Romuald Elie
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

Beyond Compression: Training Latent Representations for Stable Long-Horizon Rollout in Neural Surrogate Solvers

The paper investigates why latent neural surrogate solvers, which compress physical system dynamics into a lower‑dimensional space, often fail during long‑horizon autoregressive rollouts. It demonstrates that training the latent representation only for reconstruction leads to instability, and proposes a set of training interventions—Koopman operator learning, Hamming noise injection, and multi‑step rollout fine‑tuning—that align the latent space with long‑horizon forecasting. These interventions reduce long‑rollout error by about 40 % and achieve accuracy comparable to full‑resolution models while using far fewer floating‑point operations and GPU memory, enabling stable extrapolation in mesoscale crystal‑plasticity simulations of high‑cycle fatigue.

By Andreas E. Robertson, Ashley T. Lenau, John D. Shimanek, Benjamin A. Jasperson, Vivek Oommen, David L. Damm, Krishna Garikipati, Remi Dingreville
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

SelfLift: Accelerating Few-Step Diffusion via Self-Recovering Resolution Transition

SelfLift is a progressive‑resolution framework that accelerates few‑step diffusion models by enabling late, self‑recovering transitions between low‑ and high‑resolution latents. It introduces a training‑free Artifact‑Aware Consistency Lift that uses disagreement between direct latent lifting and pixel‑VAE re‑encoding to detect and correct artifacts, and a self‑recovery policy that transfers high‑resolution guidance from an internal teacher. Experiments on FLUX.2‑Klein and Z‑Image‑Turbo show latency reductions of 41.5% and 44.1%, and overall speedups of 29.61× and 19.21× over 50‑step baselines while maintaining competitive generation quality.

By Tingyan Wen, Chenqian Yan, Xurui Peng, Xiazhang Fang, Shuai Wang, Xueqian Wang, Songwei Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Least-Action-Guided Diffusion for Physical Extrapolation

arXiv:2606. 11277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable extrapolation remains a central challenge for generative models in computational physics, because models trained over finite ranges of time, parameters, or geometries may produce physically inconsistent predictions outside the training distribution.

By Zhongxin Yang, Yuanwei Bin, Xiang I. A. Yang, Shiyi Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

STITCH-OPE: Trajectory Stitching with Guided Diffusion for Off-Policy Evaluation

STITCH-OPE is a model‑based generative framework that uses denoising diffusion to perform off‑policy evaluation (OPE) in high‑dimensional, long‑horizon settings. It generates synthetic trajectories for a target policy by guiding a diffusion model trained on behavior data, subtracting the behavior policy’s score to avoid over‑regularization and stitching partial trajectories to extend horizon length. The authors provide theoretical variance‑reduction guarantees and demonstrate improved mean squared error, correlation, and regret on D4RL and OpenAI Gym benchmarks.

By Hossein Goli, Michael Gimelfarb, Nathan Samuel de Lara, Haruki Nishimura, Masha Itkina, Florian Shkurti
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Mitigating the Contractivity Trap in Diffusion ODEs via Stein Stabilization

arXiv:2606. 07835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A fundamental tension exists in the large-step inference of diffusion models via their deterministic probability flow ordinary differential equation (PF-ODE) trajectories, which we identify as the contractivity trap: efficient inference favors large step sizes, while aggressive steps and highly expressive denoisers can undermine contraction-based stability certificates for error suppression.

By Shigui Li, Delu Zeng