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most citedDIFFormer: Scalable (Graph) Transformers Induced by Energy Constrained Diffusion

26 citations · 28 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.LG2025

On Powerful Ways to Generate: Autoregression, Diffusion, and Beyond

Chenxiao Yang, Cai Zhou, David Wipf +1

Diffusion language models have recently emerged as a competitive alternative to autoregressive language models. Beyond next-token generation, they are more efficient and flexible b…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

SGFormer: Single-Layer Graph Transformers with Approximation-Free Linear Complexity

Qitian Wu, Kai Yang, Hengrui Zhang +2

Learning representations on large graphs is a long-standing challenge due to the inter-dependence nature. Transformers recently have shown promising performance on small graphs tha…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Transformers from Diffusion: A Unified Framework for Neural Message Passing

Qitian Wu, David Wipf, Junchi Yan

Learning representations for structured data with certain geometries (e.g., observed or unobserved) is a fundamental challenge, wherein message passing neural networks (MPNNs) have…

cs.LG2023

How Graph Neural Networks Learn: Lessons from Training Dynamics

Chenxiao Yang, Qitian Wu, David Wipf +2

A long-standing goal in deep learning has been to characterize the learning behavior of black-box models in a more interpretable manner. For graph neural networks (GNNs), considera…

cs.LG2023★ 26 cited

DIFFormer: Scalable (Graph) Transformers Induced by Energy Constrained Diffusion

Qitian Wu, Chenxiao Yang, Wentao Zhao +3

Real-world data generation often involves complex inter-dependencies among instances, violating the IID-data hypothesis of standard learning paradigms and posing a challenge for un…