Discrete Diffusion Models are Minimax Optimal Under Sparsity
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arXiv:2608.20635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete diffusion models have demonstrated strong performance across a range of datasets, including natural language data and graph-structured data....
arXiv:2610.02754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models are highly developed in continuous spaces for image and video domains. Recently, major advances have been made for discrete diffusion...
arXiv:2502. 09151v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models are one of the key architectures of generative AI.
arXiv:2606. 09962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous diffusion for categorical data is a framework belonging to the diffusion family and aiming at generating discrete data.
arXiv:2409. 18804v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) are powerful state-of-the-art methods used to generate synthetic data from high-dimensional data distributions and are widely used for image, audio, and video generation as well as many more applications in science and beyond.
The paper presents a theoretical analysis of score mismatch in discrete diffusion models, deriving a KL divergence upper bound that quantifies the bias introduced when the training and target distributions differ. It examines partial-observation constraints such as text infilling and sentence completion, showing that the Conditional SEDD sampler can incur a bias that grows with dimension, vocabulary size, and compatibility. To mitigate this, the authors propose a Randomized Hard Clamping (RHC) sampler for coordinatewise set constraints, demonstrating through experiments that it effectively reduces bias and improves sampling performance.