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most citedeDiff-I: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with an Ensemble of Expert Denoisers

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55 papers

cs.CL2026

Large Language Continuous Diffusion Models

Zhihan Yang, Wei Guo, Jean-Marie Lemercier +14

Despite the success of discrete diffusion language models (dLMs) for fast parallel decoding, their non-smooth, high-dimensional space hinders trajectory steering for reasoning and…

cs.CV2026

Scaling Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Models via Velocity Matching

Jaemoo Choi, Wei Guo, Yuchen Zhu +4

Reward-based fine-tuning of diffusion models has largely inherited likelihood-based policy optimization developed for autoregressive large language models (LLMs). Diffusion models,…

cs.CV2026

Parallel Decoding Distillation for Fast Image and Video Generation

Neta Shaul, Chao Liu, Arash Vahdat +1

Generation in video diffusion or flow models is computationally expensive due to the slow and iterative sampling process. Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) acceleration methods heavi…

cs.CV2026

Flex-Forcing: Towards a Unified Autoregressive and Bidirectional Video Diffusion Model

Xinyin Ma, Julius Berner, Chao Liu +3

Recent progress in large-scale generative models has substantially advanced video generation, yet existing methods remain constrained by a rigid inference paradigm. Bidirectional d…

cs.LG2026

DiLaDiff: Distilled Latent-Augmented Diffusion for Language Modeling

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Tomas Geffner, Karsten Kreis +3

Diffusion language models intrinsically fail to capture correlations between decoded tokens, which leads to a harsh trade-off between sampling quality and throughput. To solve this…

cs.CL2026

Continuous Diffusion Scales Competitively with Discrete Diffusion for Language

Zhihan Yang, Wei Guo, Shuibai Zhang +5

While diffusion has drawn considerable recent attention from the language modeling community, continuous diffusion has appeared less scalable than discrete approaches. To challenge…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

Scaling Atomistic Protein Binder Design with Generative Pretraining and Test-Time Compute

Kieran Didi, Zuobai Zhang, Guoqing Zhou +11

Protein interaction modeling is central to protein design, which has been transformed by machine learning with applications in drug discovery and beyond. In this landscape, structu…

cs.CV2026

Mode Seeking meets Mean Seeking for Fast Long Video Generation

Shengqu Cai, Weili Nie, Chao Liu +8

Scaling video generation from seconds to minutes faces a critical bottleneck: while short-video data is abundant and high-fidelity, coherent long-form data is scarce and limited to…

cs.LG2026

Demystifying Data-Driven Probabilistic Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

Jean Kossaifi, Nikola Kovachki, Morteza Mardani +15

The recent revolution in data-driven methods for weather forecasting has lead to a fragmented landscape of complex, bespoke architectures and training strategies, obscuring the fun…

cs.CV2026

Transition Matching Distillation for Fast Video Generation

Weili Nie, Julius Berner, Nanye Ma +3

Large video diffusion and flow models have achieved remarkable success in high-quality video generation, but their use in real-time interactive applications remains limited due to…

q-bio.BM2025

Consistent Synthetic Sequences Unlock Structural Diversity in Fully Atomistic De Novo Protein Design

Danny Reidenbach, Zhonglin Cao, Zuobai Zhang +8

High-quality training datasets are crucial for the development of effective protein design models, but existing synthetic datasets often include unfavorable sequence-structure pair…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Exploring Synthesizable Chemical Space with Iterative Pathway Refinements

Seul Lee, Karsten Kreis, Srimukh Prasad Veccham +5

A well-known pitfall of molecular generative models is that they are not guaranteed to generate synthesizable molecules. Existing solutions for this problem often struggle to effec…

cs.LG2025

Trust Region Constrained Measure Transport in Path Space for Stochastic Optimal Control and Inference

Denis Blessing, Julius Berner, Lorenz Richter +4

Solving stochastic optimal control problems with quadratic control costs can be viewed as approximating a target path space measure, e.g. via gradient-based optimization. In practi…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

La-Proteina: Atomistic Protein Generation via Partially Latent Flow Matching

Tomas Geffner, Kieran Didi, Zhonglin Cao +6

Recently, many generative models for de novo protein structure design have emerged. Yet, only few tackle the difficult task of directly generating fully atomistic structures jointl…

cs.LG2025

Elucidated Rolling Diffusion Models for Probabilistic Forecasting of Complex Dynamics

Salva Rühling Cachay, Miika Aittala, Karsten Kreis +4

Diffusion models are a powerful tool for probabilistic forecasting, yet most applications in high-dimensional complex systems predict future states individually. This approach stru…

cs.CL2025

Esoteric Language Models: A Family of Any-Order Diffusion LLMs

Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Zhihan Yang, Yash Akhauri +7

Diffusion-based language models offer a compelling alternative to autoregressive (AR) models by enabling parallel and controllable generation. Within this family, Masked Diffusion…

physics.ao-ph2025★ 1 cited

Climate in a Bottle: Towards a Generative Foundation Model for the Kilometer-Scale Global Atmosphere

Noah D. Brenowitz, Tao Ge, Akshay Subramaniam +7

Climate modeling is reaching unprecedented resolution, producing petabytes of data. AI climate model emulators offer a path to computationally cheap analysis, enabling new scientif…

cs.CV2025

On Equivariance and Fast Sampling in Video Diffusion Models Trained with Warped Noise

Chao Liu, Arash Vahdat

Temporally consistent video-to-video generation is critical for applications such as style transfer and upsampling. In this paper, we provide a theoretical analysis of warped noise…

cs.LG2025

One-step Diffusion Models with -Divergence Distribution Matching

Yilun Xu, Weili Nie, Arash Vahdat

Sampling from diffusion models involves a slow iterative process that hinders their practical deployment, especially for interactive applications. To accelerate generation speed, r…

q-bio.BM2025

ProtComposer: Compositional Protein Structure Generation with 3D Ellipsoids

Hannes Stark, Bowen Jing, Tomas Geffner +4

We develop ProtComposer to generate protein structures conditioned on spatial protein layouts that are specified via a set of 3D ellipsoids capturing substructure shapes and semant…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Proteina: Scaling Flow-based Protein Structure Generative Models

Tomas Geffner, Kieran Didi, Zuobai Zhang +8

Recently, diffusion- and flow-based generative models of protein structures have emerged as a powerful tool for de novo protein design. Here, we develop Proteina, a new large-scale…

cs.CV2025

Not-So-Optimal Transport Flows for 3D Point Cloud Generation

Ka-Hei Hui, Chao Liu, Xiaohui Zeng +2

Learning generative models of 3D point clouds is one of the fundamental problems in 3D generative learning. One of the key properties of point clouds is their permutation invarianc…

cs.CV2025

BlobGEN-Vid: Compositional Text-to-Video Generation with Blob Video Representations

Weixi Feng, Chao Liu, Sifei Liu +3

Existing video generation models struggle to follow complex text prompts and synthesize multiple objects, raising the need for additional grounding input for improved controllabili…

cs.SD2025

A2SB: Audio-to-Audio Schrodinger Bridges

Zhifeng Kong, Kevin J Shih, Weili Nie +6

Real-world audio is often degraded by numerous factors. This work presents an audio restoration model tailored for high-res music at 44.1kHz. Our model, Audio-to-Audio Schrödinger…