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most citedThe Blessing of Randomness: SDE Beats ODE in General Diffusion-based Image Editing

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22 papers

cs.AI2026

LLaDA MoE v2: Scaling Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion Language Models

Fengqi Zhu, Shaoxuan Xu, Jingyang Ou +11

Diffusion language models (dLLMs) offer an alternative to autoregressive (AR) language modeling, yet the scaling behavior of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) dLLMs remains poorly understoo…

cs.CL2026

Improved Large Language Diffusion Models

Shen Nie, Qiyang Min, Shaoxuan Xu +7

Modern large language models are predominantly trained with autoregressive factorization and causal attention. We present \emph{iLLaDA}, an 8B masked diffusion language model train…

cs.CV2026

LLaDA-o: An Effective and Length-Adaptive Omni Diffusion Model

Zebin You, Xiaolu Zhang, Jun Zhou +2

We present \textbf{LLaDA-o}, an effective and length-adaptive omni diffusion model for multimodal understanding and generation. LLaDA-o is built on a Mixture of Diffusion (MoD) fra…

cs.LG2026

Spectral Condition for P under Width-Depth Scaling

Chenyu Zheng, Rongzhen Wang, Xinyu Zhang +1

Generative foundation models are increasingly scaled in both width and depth, posing significant challenges for stable feature learning and reliable hyperparameter (HP) transfer ac…

cs.AI2026

DLLM-Searcher: Adapting Diffusion Large Language Model for Search Agents

Jiahao Zhao, Shaoxuan Xu, Zhongxiang Sun +6

Recently, Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have demonstrated unique efficiency advantages, enabled by their inherently parallel decoding mechanism and flexible generation pa…

cs.CL2025

Principled RL for Diffusion LLMs Emerges from a Sequence-Level Perspective

Jingyang Ou, Jiaqi Han, Minkai Xu +5

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has proven highly effective for autoregressive language models, but adapting these methods to diffusion large language models (dLLMs) presents fundament…

cs.IR2025

LLaDA-Rec: Discrete Diffusion for Parallel Semantic ID Generation in Generative Recommendation

Teng Shi, Chenglei Shen, Weijie Yu +6

Generative recommendation represents each item as a semantic ID, i.e., a sequence of discrete tokens, and generates the next item through autoregressive decoding. While effective,…

cs.CL2025

UltraLLaDA: Scaling the Context Length to 128K for Diffusion Large Language Models

Guangxin He, Shen Nie, Fengqi Zhu +6

Diffusion LLMs have attracted growing interest, with plenty of recent work emphasizing their great potential in various downstream tasks; yet the long-context behavior of diffusion…

cs.LG2025

Masked Diffusion Models as Energy Minimization

Sitong Chen, Shen Nie, Jiacheng Sun +4

We present a systematic theoretical framework that interprets masked diffusion models (MDMs) as solutions to energy minimization problems in discrete optimal transport. Specificall…

cs.LG2025

Reinforcing General Reasoning without Verifiers

Xiangxin Zhou, Zichen Liu, Anya Sims +6

The recent paradigm shift towards training large language models (LLMs) using DeepSeek-R1-Zero-style reinforcement learning (RL) on verifiable rewards has led to impressive advance…

cs.LG2025

LLaDA 1.5: Variance-Reduced Preference Optimization for Large Language Diffusion Models

Fengqi Zhu, Rongzhen Wang, Shen Nie +8

While Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs), such as LLaDA, present a promising paradigm for language modeling, there has been relatively little effort in aligning these models with human…

cs.LG2025

A Theory for Conditional Generative Modeling on Multiple Data Sources

Rongzhen Wang, Yan Zhang, Chenyu Zheng +2

The success of large generative models has driven a paradigm shift, leveraging massive multi-source data to enhance model capabilities. However, the interaction among these sources…

cs.CL2025

Large Language Diffusion Models

Shen Nie, Fengqi Zhu, Zebin You +7

The capabilities of large language models (LLMs) are widely regarded as relying on autoregressive models (ARMs). We challenge this notion by introducing LLaDA, a diffusion model tr…

cs.CV2025

Real-time Identity Defenses against Malicious Personalization of Diffusion Models

Hanzhong Guo, Shen Nie, Chao Du +3

Personalized generative diffusion models, capable of synthesizing highly realistic images based on a few reference portraits, may pose substantial social, ethical, and legal risks…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Scaling up Masked Diffusion Models on Text

Shen Nie, Fengqi Zhu, Chao Du +5

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) have shown promise in language modeling, yet their scalability and effectiveness in core language tasks, such as text generation and language underst…

cs.CV2024

Improving Long-Text Alignment for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Luping Liu, Chao Du, Tianyu Pang +3

The rapid advancement of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models has enabled them to generate unprecedented results from given texts. However, as text inputs become longer, existing e…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Unifying Bayesian Flow Networks and Diffusion Models through Stochastic Differential Equations

Kaiwen Xue, Yuhao Zhou, Shen Nie +4

Bayesian flow networks (BFNs) iteratively refine the parameters, instead of the samples in diffusion models (DMs), of distributions at various noise levels through Bayesian inferen…

cs.LG2024

Your Absorbing Discrete Diffusion Secretly Models the Conditional Distributions of Clean Data

Jingyang Ou, Shen Nie, Kaiwen Xue +4

Discrete diffusion models with absorbing processes have shown promise in language modeling. The key quantities to be estimated are the ratios between the marginal probabilities of…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Graph Diffusion Policy Optimization

Yijing Liu, Chao Du, Tianyu Pang +3

Recent research has made significant progress in optimizing diffusion models for downstream objectives, which is an important pursuit in fields such as graph generation for drug de…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Gaussian Mixture Solvers for Diffusion Models

Hanzhong Guo, Cheng Lu, Fan Bao +4

Recently, diffusion models have achieved great success in generative tasks. Sampling from diffusion models is equivalent to solving the reverse diffusion stochastic differential eq…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

The Blessing of Randomness: SDE Beats ODE in General Diffusion-based Image Editing

Shen Nie, Hanzhong Allan Guo, Cheng Lu +3

We present a unified probabilistic formulation for diffusion-based image editing, where a latent variable is edited in a task-specific manner and generally deviates from the corres…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

On Memorization in Diffusion Models

Xiangming Gu, Chao Du, Tianyu Pang +3

Due to their capacity to generate novel and high-quality samples, diffusion models have attracted significant research interest in recent years. Notably, the typical training objec…