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20202026
most citedHermite spectral method for Fokker-Planck-Landau equation modeling collisional plasma

17 citations · 33 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.LG2026

FluxLite: Inference-Time Proposal Control for Discrete Diffusion Models

Yinuo Ren, Haoxuan Chen, Grant M. Rotskoff +2

Many inference-time tasks for pretrained discrete diffusion models and diffusion language models reduce to drawing samples from a tilted version of the pretrained distribution. Fey…

cs.CL2026

Multi-Mask Diffusion Language Models for Few-Step Generation

Sijin Chen, Yinuo Ren, Heyang Zhao +3

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) are a promising family of language generators, but achieving high-quality few-step generation remains challenging. In MDMs, all forward trajectories…

stat.ML2026

SURGE: Approximation and Training Free Particle Filter for Diffusion Surrogate

Lifu Wei, Yinuo Ren, Naichen Shi +1

Data assimilation (DA) addresses the problem of sequentially estimating the state of a dynamical system from noisy and incomplete observations. In this work, we employ a diffusion…

stat.ML2026

Simple Approximation and Derivative Free Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models via Sequential Monte Carlo on Path Measures

Chenyang Wang, Weizhong Wang, Yinuo Ren +2

iffusion-based generative models increasingly rely on inference-time guidance, adding a drift term or reweighting mixture of experts, to improve sample quality on task-specific obj…

cs.LG2025

DriftLite: Lightweight Drift Control for Inference-Time Scaling of Diffusion Models

Yinuo Ren, Wenhao Gao, Lexing Ying +2

We study inference-time scaling for diffusion models, where the goal is to adapt a pre-trained model to new target distributions without retraining. Existing guidance-based methods…

cs.LG2025

Solving Inverse Problems via Diffusion-Based Priors: An Approximation-Free Ensemble Sampling Approach

Haoxuan Chen, Yinuo Ren, Martin Renqiang Min +2

Diffusion models (DMs) have proven to be effective in modeling high-dimensional distributions, leading to their widespread adoption for representing complex priors in Bayesian inve…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

A Unified Approach to Analysis and Design of Denoising Markov Models

Yinuo Ren, Grant M. Rotskoff, Lexing Ying

Probabilistic generative models based on measure transport, such as diffusion and flow-based models, are often formulated in the language of Markovian stochastic dynamics, where th…

cs.LG2025

Fast Solvers for Discrete Diffusion Models: Theory and Applications of High-Order Algorithms

Yinuo Ren, Haoxuan Chen, Yuchen Zhu +5

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a powerful generative modeling framework for discrete data with successful applications spanning from text generation to image synthesis.…

cs.LG2024

COS-DPO: Conditioned One-Shot Multi-Objective Fine-Tuning Framework

Yinuo Ren, Tesi Xiao, Michael Shavlovsky +2

In LLM alignment and many other ML applications, one often faces the Multi-Objective Fine-Tuning (MOFT) problem, i.e., fine-tuning an existing model with datasets labeled w.r.t. di…

cs.LG2024

How Discrete and Continuous Diffusion Meet: Comprehensive Analysis of Discrete Diffusion Models via a Stochastic Integral Framework

Yinuo Ren, Haoxuan Chen, Grant M. Rotskoff +1

Discrete diffusion models have gained increasing attention for their ability to model complex distributions with tractable sampling and inference. However, the error analysis for d…

cs.LG2024

Accelerating Diffusion Models with Parallel Sampling: Inference at Sub-Linear Time Complexity

Haoxuan Chen, Yinuo Ren, Lexing Ying +1

Diffusion models have become a leading method for generative modeling of both image and scientific data. As these models are costly to train and \emph{evaluate}, reducing the infer…

cs.LG2024

Understanding the Generalization Benefits of Late Learning Rate Decay

Yinuo Ren, Chao Ma, Lexing Ying

Why do neural networks trained with large learning rates for a longer time often lead to better generalization? In this paper, we delve into this question by examining the relation…

stat.ML2023★ 1 cited

Statistical Spatially Inhomogeneous Diffusion Inference

Yinuo Ren, Yiping Lu, Lexing Ying +1

Inferring a diffusion equation from discretely-observed measurements is a statistical challenge of significant importance in a variety of fields, from single-molecule tracking in b…

cs.LG2023

Multi-Objective Optimization via Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao Gradient Flow

Yinuo Ren, Tesi Xiao, Tanmay Gangwani +4

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) aims to optimize multiple, possibly conflicting objectives with widespread applications. We introduce a novel interacting particle method for MOO…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

High-dimensional density estimation with tensorizing flow

Yinuo Ren, Hongli Zhao, Yuehaw Khoo +1

We propose the tensorizing flow method for estimating high-dimensional probability density functions from the observed data. The method is based on tensor-train and flow-based gene…

math.NA2020★ 11 cited

A semigroup method for high dimensional committor functions based on neural network

Haoya Li, Yuehaw Khoo, Yinuo Ren +1

This paper proposes a new method based on neural networks for computing the high-dimensional committor functions that satisfy Fokker-Planck equations. Instead of working with parti…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 17 cited

Hermite spectral method for Fokker-Planck-Landau equation modeling collisional plasma

Ruo Li, Yinuo Ren, Yanli Wang

We propose an Hermite spectral method for the Fokker-Planck-Landau (FPL) equation. Both the distribution functions and the collision terms are approximated by series expansions of…