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7 papers

cs.LG2026

ARIA: Adaptive Region-Based Importance Allocation for Conditional Diffusion Distillation

Loay Mualem, Vinh Tong, Samir Darouich +1

Distilling conditional diffusion models aims to transfer the behavior of a large teacher to a smaller student while preserving alignment across conditioning inputs. Unlike recognit…

cs.RO2026

Self-Improving VLA Policies: Selected Diffusion Noise for Spurious-Robust Action Smoothing

Duc Minh Nguyen, Bao-Ngoc Dao, Tung M. Luu +15

Diffusion-based Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies enable strong generalization in robotic manipulation, but remain sensitive to spurious visual correlations and noisy action ge…

cs.LG2026

SymDrift: One-Shot Generative Modeling under Symmetries

Samir Darouich, Vinh Tong, Lluís Pastor-Pérez +3

Generative modeling of physical systems, such as molecules, requires learning distributions that are invariant under global symmetries, such as rotations in three-dimensional space…

cs.CV2026

Self-Supervised Flow Matching for Scalable Multi-Modal Synthesis

Hila Chefer, Patrick Esser, Dominik Lorenz +5

Strong semantic representations improve the convergence and generation quality of diffusion and flow models. Existing approaches largely rely on external models, which require sepa…

cs.LG2025

Rao-Blackwell Gradient Estimators for Equivariant Denoising Diffusion

Vinh Tong, Hoang Trung-Dung, Anji Liu +2

In domains such as molecular and protein generation, physical systems exhibit inherent symmetries that are critical to model. Two main strategies have emerged for learning invarian…

physics.chem-ph2025

Adaptive Transition State Refinement with Learned Equilibrium Flows

Samir Darouich, Vinh Tong, Tanja Bien +2

Identifying transition states (TSs), the high-energy configurations that molecules pass through during chemical reactions, is essential for understanding and designing chemical pro…