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cs.LG2026

Scaling Online Optimal Transport Minibatches for Flow Matching

Peter Chen, Sergey Levine

A central challenge in scaling flow models is maintaining stability in training and integration. In flow matching, this stability depends critically on how source samples are paire…

cs.LG2026

Bridging the Simulation-to-Experiment Gap with Generative Models using Adversarial Distribution Alignment

Kai Nelson, Tobias Kreiman, Sergey Levine +1

A fundamental challenge in science and engineering is the simulation-to-experiment gap. While we often possess prior knowledge of physical laws, these physical laws can be too diff…

cs.LG2025

Dynamic Search for Inference-Time Alignment in Diffusion Models

Xiner Li, Masatoshi Uehara, Xingyu Su +5

Diffusion models have shown promising generative capabilities across diverse domains, yet aligning their outputs with desired reward functions remains a challenge, particularly in…

cs.LG2025

Reward-Guided Iterative Refinement in Diffusion Models at Test-Time with Applications to Protein and DNA Design

Masatoshi Uehara, Xingyu Su, Yulai Zhao +5

To fully leverage the capabilities of diffusion models, we are often interested in optimizing downstream reward functions during inference. While numerous algorithms for reward-gui…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Fine-Tuning Discrete Diffusion Models via Reward Optimization with Applications to DNA and Protein Design

Chenyu Wang, Masatoshi Uehara, Yichun He +7

Recent studies have demonstrated the strong empirical performance of diffusion models on discrete sequences across domains from natural language to biological sequence generation.…

cs.LG2024

Derivative-Free Guidance in Continuous and Discrete Diffusion Models with Soft Value-Based Decoding

Xiner Li, Yulai Zhao, Chenyu Wang +8

Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Understanding Reinforcement Learning-Based Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models: A Tutorial and Review

Masatoshi Uehara, Yulai Zhao, Tommaso Biancalani +1

This tutorial provides a comprehensive survey of methods for fine-tuning diffusion models to optimize downstream reward functions. While diffusion models are widely known to provid…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Adding Conditional Control to Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning

Yulai Zhao, Masatoshi Uehara, Gabriele Scalia +4

Diffusion models are powerful generative models that allow for precise control over the characteristics of the generated samples. While these diffusion models trained on large data…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Bridging Model-Based Optimization and Generative Modeling via Conservative Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models

Masatoshi Uehara, Yulai Zhao, Ehsan Hajiramezanali +5

AI-driven design problems, such as DNA/protein sequence design, are commonly tackled from two angles: generative modeling, which efficiently captures the feasible design space (e.g…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Fine-Tuning of Continuous-Time Diffusion Models as Entropy-Regularized Control

Masatoshi Uehara, Yulai Zhao, Kevin Black +6

Diffusion models excel at capturing complex data distributions, such as those of natural images and proteins. While diffusion models are trained to represent the distribution in th…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Feedback Efficient Online Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models

Masatoshi Uehara, Yulai Zhao, Kevin Black +6

Diffusion models excel at modeling complex data distributions, including those of images, proteins, and small molecules. However, in many cases, our goal is to model parts of the d…