The book "The Principles of Diffusion Models" outlines the foundational concepts behind diffusion models, tracing their evolution from a forward process that corrupts data into noise to a reverse process that reconstructs data. It presents three complementary perspectives—variational, score-based, and flow-based—each describing how a time-dependent velocity field transports a simple prior to the data distribution. The text also covers practical guidance for controllable generation, efficient solvers, and diffusion-inspired flow-map models, providing a mathematically grounded framework for readers with basic deep‑learning knowledge.
By Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yang Song, Dongjun Kim, Yuki Mitsufuji, Stefano Ermon
arXiv:2605. 12764v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper introduces a physics-informed generative framework that resolves the fundamental conflict between the statistical flexibility of deep learning and the rigorous theoretical constraints of fixed-income modeling.
By Fusheng Luo, H'elyette Geman
arXiv:2609.37435v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neural Koopman autoencoder models have been shown to successfully build a latent embedding with linear dynamics for arbitrary dynamical systems, enabli...
By Anthony Frion, Lucas Drumetz, Guillaume Tochon, Mauro Dalla Mura, Ali Can Bekar, Abdeldjalil A\"issa El Bey
arXiv:2606. 25900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) belong to a family of autoencoders with probabilistic properties, making them well suited for generating data by producing a smooth and continuous latent space.
By Gananath R
Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) belong to a family of autoencoders with probabilistic properties, making them well suited for generating data by producing a smooth and continuous latent space. Despite being introduced over a decade ago, the method continues to be widely adopted in both research and industry for diverse applications.
arXiv:2606. 30384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training in artificial neural networks can be viewed as a trajectory evolving through a high-dimensional loss landscape.
By Pedro Jim\'enez-Gonz\'alez, Miguel C. Soriano, Lucas Lacasa
arXiv:2606. 10530v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent developments in brain recording are driving a demand for machine learning tools capable of decoding the latent structure of large populations of neurons.
By Shufeng Kong, Fumei Deng, Xinyi Dong, Caihua Liu, Weiwei Chen, Yingheng Wang, Daniel Cao, Azahara Oliva, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, Carla Gomes
Training in artificial neural networks can be viewed as a trajectory evolving through a high-dimensional loss landscape. However, the large number of trainable parameters makes the direct analysis of these dynamics challenging.
arXiv:2502. 19049v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) describe dynamical systems where deterministic flows, governed by a drift function, are superimposed with random fluctuations, dictated by a diffusion function.
By Patrick Seifner, Kostadin Cvejoski, David Berghaus, Cesar Ojeda, Ramses J. Sanchez
arXiv:2602. 14885v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) provide a theoretical framework for understanding computation in biological neural circuits, yet classical results, such as Hopfield's model of associative memory, rely on symmetric connectivity that restricts network dynamics to gradient-like flows.
By Ram\'on Nartallo-Kaluarachchi, Renaud Lambiotte, Alain Goriely
arXiv:2506. 00849v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite the empirical success of Diffusion Models (DMs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), their generalization performance remains theoretically underexplored, especially lacking a full consideration of the shared encoder-generator structure.
By Qi Chen, Jierui Zhu, Florian Shkurti
Neural PDE solvers provide efficient surrogates for time-dependent physical systems, but autoregressive prediction over long horizons remains challenging because local errors can induce distribution s...