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most citedPredict-Then-Optimize by Proxy: Learning Joint Models of Prediction and Optimization

2 citations · 4 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2026

Simulator-Refined Diffusion for Radio-Frequency Inverse Design

Jinhao Liang, Jacob K. Christopher, Michael Frei +2

Diffusion models have shown potential in inverse design of printed circuit boards (PCBs), enabling the generation of layouts conditioned on target S-parameters. Despite this promis…

cs.LG2026

Constraint-Aware Flow Matching: Decision Aligned End-to-End Training for Constrained Sampling

Jacob K. Christopher, James E. Warner, Ferdinando Fioretto

Deep generative models provide state-of-the-art performance across a wide array of applications, with recent studies showing increasing applicability for science and engineering. D…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Constrained Diffusion for Accelerated Structure Relaxation of Inorganic Solids with Point Defects

Jingyi Cui, Jacob K. Christopher, Ankita Biswas +2

Point defects affect material properties by altering electronic states and modifying local bonding environments. However, high-throughput first-principles simulations of point defe…

cs.CL2025

SpecDiff-2: Scaling Diffusion Drafter Alignment For Faster Speculative Decoding

Jameson Sandler, Jacob K. Christopher, Thomas Hartvigsen +1

Speculative decoding has become the standard approach for accelerating Large Language Model (LLM) inference. It exploits a lossless draft-then-verify procedure to circumvent the la…

q-bio.BM2025

Constrained Diffusion for Protein Design with Hard Structural Constraints

Jacob K. Christopher, Austin Seamann, Jingyi Cui +2

Diffusion models offer a powerful means of capturing the manifold of realistic protein structures, enabling rapid design for protein engineering tasks. However, existing approaches…

cs.LG2025

Neuro-Symbolic Generative Diffusion Models for Physically Grounded, Robust, and Safe Generation

Jacob K. Christopher, Michael Cardei, Jinhao Liang +1

Despite the remarkable generative capabilities of diffusion models, their integration into safety-critical or scientifically rigorous applications remains hindered by the need to e…

cs.CL2025

Constrained Discrete Diffusion

Michael Cardei, Jacob K Christopher, Thomas Hartvigsen +2

Discrete diffusion models are a class of generative models that construct sequences by progressively denoising samples from a categorical noise distribution. Beyond their rapidly g…

cs.LG2025

Training-Free Constrained Generation With Stable Diffusion Models

Stefano Zampini, Jacob K. Christopher, Luca Oneto +2

Stable diffusion models represent the state-of-the-art in data synthesis across diverse domains and hold transformative potential for applications in science and engineering, e.g.,…

cs.RO2025

Simultaneous Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Projected Diffusion Models

Jinhao Liang, Jacob K Christopher, Sven Koenig +1

Recent advances in diffusion models hold significant potential in robotics, enabling the generation of diverse and smooth trajectories directly from raw representations of the envi…

cs.RO2024

Multi-Agent Path Finding in Continuous Spaces with Projected Diffusion Models

Jinhao Liang, Jacob K. Christopher, Sven Koenig +1

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics, requiring the computation of collision-free paths for multiple agents moving from their respective start to go…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Learning Joint Models of Prediction and Optimization

James Kotary, Vincenzo Di Vito, Jacob Cristopher +2

The Predict-Then-Optimize framework uses machine learning models to predict unknown parameters of an optimization problem from exogenous features before solving. This setting is co…

cs.CL2024

Speculative Diffusion Decoding: Accelerating Language Generation through Diffusion

Jacob K Christopher, Brian R Bartoldson, Tal Ben-Nun +3

Speculative decoding has emerged as a widely adopted method to accelerate large language model inference without sacrificing the quality of the model outputs. While this technique…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Constrained Synthesis with Projected Diffusion Models

Jacob K Christopher, Stephen Baek, Ferdinando Fioretto

This paper introduces an approach to endow generative diffusion processes the ability to satisfy and certify compliance with constraints and physical principles. The proposed metho…

cs.LG2023

Analyzing and Enhancing the Backward-Pass Convergence of Unrolled Optimization

James Kotary, Jacob Christopher, My H Dinh +1

The integration of constrained optimization models as components in deep networks has led to promising advances on many specialized learning tasks. A central challenge in this sett…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Predict-Then-Optimize by Proxy: Learning Joint Models of Prediction and Optimization

James Kotary, Vincenzo Di Vito, Jacob Christopher +2

Many real-world decision processes are modeled by optimization problems whose defining parameters are unknown and must be inferred from observable data. The Predict-Then-Optimize f…