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5 papers

cs.LG2026

Provable diffusion-based posterior sampling for linear inverse problems via DDIM

Yuchen Jiao, Na Li, Changxiao Cai +2

Diffusion-based methods have achieved remarkable empirical success in solving inverse problems. However, many existing posterior samplers either lack rigorous theoretical guarantee…

stat.ML2026

Diffusion Models Adapt to Low-Dimensional Structure Under Flexible Coefficient Choices

Changxiao Cai, Yuchen Jiao, Gen Li

Diffusion models are known to exploit unknown low-dimensional structure to accelerate sampling. However, existing convergence theory under low-dimensional data structure has largel…

stat.ML2026

Sample Complexity of Average-Reward Q-Learning: From Single-agent to Federated Reinforcement Learning

Yuchen Jiao, Jiin Woo, Gen Li +2

Average-reward reinforcement learning offers a principled framework for long-term decision-making by maximizing the mean reward per time step. Although Q-learning is a widely used…

stat.ML2025

Are First-Order Diffusion Samplers Really Slower? A Fast Forward-Value Approach

Yuchen Jiao, Na Li, Changxiao Cai +1

Higher-order ODE solvers have become a standard tool for accelerating diffusion probabilistic model (DPM) sampling, motivating the widespread view that first-order methods are inhe…

cs.LG2025

Provable Memory Efficient Self-Play Algorithm for Model-free Reinforcement Learning

Na Li, Yuchen Jiao, Hangguan Shan +1

The thriving field of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) studies how a group of interacting agents make decisions autonomously in a shared dynamic environment. Existing theo…