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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.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.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.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…