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10 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

Diffusion Models Are Statistically Optimal for Learning Low-Dimensional Multi-Modal Distributions

Jingda Wu, Changxiao Cai

Score-based diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable empirical success in learning high-dimensional distributions, particularly those exhibiting low-dimensional and multi-moda…

cs.LG2026

Confidence-Based Decoding is Provably Efficient for Diffusion Language Models

Changxiao Cai, Gen Li

Diffusion language models (DLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) models for language modeling, allowing flexible generation order and parallel genera…

cs.LG2026

Adaptation to Intrinsic Dependence in Diffusion Language Models

Yunxiao Zhao, Changxiao Cai

Diffusion language models (DLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) approaches, enabling parallel token generation beyond a rigid left-to-right…

cs.LG2026

Breaking AR's Sampling Bottleneck: Provable Acceleration via Diffusion Language Models

Gen Li, Changxiao Cai

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for modern generative modeling, demonstrating strong potential for large language models (LLMs). Unlike conventional autoregres…