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20242026
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68 papers

cs.LG2026

Constrained Decoding for Diffusion Language Models via Efficient Inference over Finite Automata

Meihua Dang, Stefano Ermon

Constrained decoding is essential for serving LLMs, ensuring that generated outputs follow specific structures such as JSON schema-formatted function calls. Existing systems are de…

cs.CL2026

Diffusion Language Model Parallel Decoding via Product-of-Experts Bridge

Juntong Shi, Brian L. Trippe, Jure Leskovec +2

Diffusion language models (DLMs) offer substantial speed advantages through parallel decoding, but the lack of token dependencies limits generation quality compared to autoregressi…

cs.CL2026

Mitigating Bias in Locally Constrained Decoding via Tractable Proposals

Meihua Dang, Linxin Song, Honghua Zhang +3

Generations from large language models often fail to conform to desired constraints such as JSON schema. Existing locally constrained decoding (LCD) approaches enforce constraints…

cs.LG2026

GUDA: Counterfactual Group-wise Training Data Attribution for Diffusion Models via Unlearning

Naoki Murata, Yuhta Takida, Chieh-Hsin Lai +4

Training-data attribution for vision generative models aims to identify which training data influenced a given output. While most methods score individual examples, practitioners o…

cs.LG2026

The Principles of Diffusion Models

Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yang Song, Dongjun Kim +2

This book presents the core principles that have guided the development of diffusion models, tracing their origins and showing how diverse formulations arise from shared mathematic…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Pairwise Preferences: Listwise Reward-Aware Alignment for Diffusion Models

Austin Wang, Jiaqi Han, Stefano Ermon +1

Preference optimization has emerged as an efficient alternative to online reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) for aligning text-to-image diffusion models. However, ex…