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20202026
most citedCaduceus: Bi-Directional Equivariant Long-Range DNA Sequence Modeling

54 citations · 108 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.LG2026

Clock Diffusion: Efficient Semi-Autoregressive Continuous Diffusion Language Models

Yair Schiff, Omer Belhasin, Roy Uziel +7

Recent works on continuous diffusion for discrete data have demonstrated performance on par with comparable discrete diffusion models. However, these continuous counterparts lack k…

cs.LG2026

Learn from Your Mistakes: Self-Correcting Masked Diffusion Models

Yair Schiff, Omer Belhasin, Roy Uziel +6

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive models, enabling parallel token generation while achieving competitive performance. Despite…

cs.LG2025

Encoder-Decoder Diffusion Language Models for Efficient Training and Inference

Marianne Arriola, Yair Schiff, Hao Phung +2

Discrete diffusion models enable parallel token sampling for faster inference than autoregressive approaches. However, prior diffusion models use a decoder-only architecture, which…

cs.LG2025

d2: Improving Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models via Trajectory Likelihood Estimation

Guanghan Wang, Gilad Turok, Yair Schiff +2

While diffusion language models (DLMs) have achieved competitive performance in text generation, improving their reasoning ability with reinforcement learning remains an active res…

cs.LG2025

Remasking Discrete Diffusion Models with Inference-Time Scaling

Guanghan Wang, Yair Schiff, Subham Sekhar Sahoo +1

Part of the success of diffusion models stems from their ability to perform iterative refinement, i.e., repeatedly correcting outputs during generation. However, modern masked disc…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Simple Guidance Mechanisms for Discrete Diffusion Models

Yair Schiff, Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Hao Phung +7

Diffusion models for continuous data gained widespread adoption owing to their high quality generation and control mechanisms. However, controllable diffusion on discrete data face…

cs.CL2024★ 13 cited

Simple and Effective Masked Diffusion Language Models

Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Marianne Arriola, Yair Schiff +5

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images, prior work reports a significant performance gap between diffusion and autoregressive (AR) methods in language model…

q-bio.GN2024★ 54 cited

Caduceus: Bi-Directional Equivariant Long-Range DNA Sequence Modeling

Yair Schiff, Chia-Hsiang Kao, Aaron Gokaslan +3

Large-scale sequence modeling has sparked rapid advances that now extend into biology and genomics. However, modeling genomic sequences introduces challenges such as the need to mo…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

DySLIM: Dynamics Stable Learning by Invariant Measure for Chaotic Systems

Yair Schiff, Zhong Yi Wan, Jeffrey B. Parker +4

Learning dynamics from dissipative chaotic systems is notoriously difficult due to their inherent instability, as formalized by their positive Lyapunov exponents, which exponential…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

InfoDiffusion: Representation Learning Using Information Maximizing Diffusion Models

Yingheng Wang, Yair Schiff, Aaron Gokaslan +4

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality samples, their latent variables typically lack semantic meaning and are not suitable for representation learning. Here, we p…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Auditing and Generating Synthetic Data with Controllable Trust Trade-offs

Brian Belgodere, Pierre Dognin, Adam Ivankay +11

Real-world data often exhibits bias, imbalance, and privacy risks. Synthetic datasets have emerged to address these issues. This paradigm relies on generative AI models to generate…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Cloud-Based Real-Time Molecular Screening Platform with MolFormer

Brian Belgodere, Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Payel Das +9

With the prospect of automating a number of chemical tasks with high fidelity, chemical language processing models are emerging at a rapid speed. Here, we present a cloud-based rea…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Semi-Autoregressive Energy Flows: Exploring Likelihood-Free Training of Normalizing Flows

Phillip Si, Zeyi Chen, Subham Sekhar Sahoo +2

Training normalizing flow generative models can be challenging due to the need to calculate computationally expensive determinants of Jacobians. This paper studies the likelihood-f…

stat.ML2022

Learning with Stochastic Orders

Carles Domingo-Enrich, Yair Schiff, Youssef Mroueh

Learning high-dimensional distributions is often done with explicit likelihood modeling or implicit modeling via minimizing integral probability metrics (IPMs). In this paper, we e…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Semi-Parametric Inducing Point Networks and Neural Processes

Richa Rastogi, Yair Schiff, Alon Hacohen +5

We introduce semi-parametric inducing point networks (SPIN), a general-purpose architecture that can query the training set at inference time in a compute-efficient manner. Semi-pa…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

Predicting Deep Neural Network Generalization with Perturbation Response Curves

Yair Schiff, Brian Quanz, Payel Das +1

The field of Deep Learning is rich with empirical evidence of human-like performance on a variety of prediction tasks. However, despite these successes, the recent Predicting Gener…

physics.chem-ph2021

Augmenting Molecular Deep Generative Models with Topological Data Analysis Representations

Yair Schiff, Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Samuel Hoffman +2

Deep generative models have emerged as a powerful tool for learning useful molecular representations and designing novel molecules with desired properties, with applications in dru…

stat.ML2021★ 8 cited

Optimizing Functionals on the Space of Probabilities with Input Convex Neural Networks

David Alvarez-Melis, Yair Schiff, Youssef Mroueh

Gradient flows are a powerful tool for optimizing functionals in general metric spaces, including the space of probabilities endowed with the Wasserstein metric. A typical approach…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Gi and Pal Scores: Deep Neural Network Generalization Statistics

Yair Schiff, Brian Quanz, Payel Das +1

The field of Deep Learning is rich with empirical evidence of human-like performance on a variety of regression, classification, and control tasks. However, despite these successes…

cs.CV2020★ 2 cited

Alleviating Noisy Data in Image Captioning with Cooperative Distillation

Pierre Dognin, Igor Melnyk, Youssef Mroueh +4

Image captioning systems have made substantial progress, largely due to the availability of curated datasets like Microsoft COCO or Vizwiz that have accurate descriptions of their…

cs.CV2020★ 8 cited

Image Captioning as an Assistive Technology: Lessons Learned from VizWiz 2020 Challenge

Pierre Dognin, Igor Melnyk, Youssef Mroueh +6

Image captioning has recently demonstrated impressive progress largely owing to the introduction of neural network algorithms trained on curated dataset like MS-COCO. Often work in…

cs.LG2020

Tabular Transformers for Modeling Multivariate Time Series

Inkit Padhi, Yair Schiff, Igor Melnyk +6

Tabular datasets are ubiquitous in data science applications. Given their importance, it seems natural to apply state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms in order to fully unlock t…

q-bio.BM2020★ 3 cited

Characterizing the Latent Space of Molecular Deep Generative Models with Persistent Homology Metrics

Yair Schiff, Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy +1

Deep generative models are increasingly becoming integral parts of the in silico molecule design pipeline and have dual goals of learning the chemical and structural features that…