IDRF: Inverse-Distilled Reward Fine-tuning of Masked Discrete Diffusion Models
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arXiv:2602. 19066v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently achieved strong results in text generation.
The paper introduces GRAS, a method that improves training‑free reward alignment for discrete diffusion models by reducing variance in guided proposals and adapting the resampling temperature during search. It achieves this without adding denoiser cost, using Rao‑Blackwellized estimates for differentiable rewards and a leave‑one‑out baseline for non‑differentiable ones. Experiments on regulatory DNA and protein design show GRAS outperforms existing training‑free techniques and rivals reward‑fine‑tuned models.
arXiv:2606. 15048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models are typically trained with objectives that focus on local denoising targets at individual time steps (or adjacent pairs), which do not enforce consistency between predictions along the denoising trajectory.
Diffusion models have strong generative capabilities. However, their maximum likelihood training objective only focuses on reconstructing the data distribution, making it difficult to align with specific preferences.
arXiv:2602. 08689v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models generate samples through an iterative denoising process guided by a pretrained neural network.
arXiv:2607. 07693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for aligning generative models with human preferences.