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20242026
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10 papers

cs.LG2026

Reinforcement Learning without Ground-Truth Solutions can Improve LLMs

Yingyu Lin, Qiyue Gao, Nikki Lijing Kuang +6

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) for training LLMs typically rely on ground-truth answers to assign rewards, limiting their applicability to tasks where the gr…

cs.LG2026

Latent Shadows: The Gaussian-Discrete Duality in Masked Diffusion

Guinan Chen, Xunpeng Huang, Ying Sun +3

Masked discrete diffusion is a dominant paradigm for high-quality language modeling where tokens are iteratively corrupted to a mask state, yet its inference efficiency is bottlene…

cs.LG2025

On the -Free Inference Complexity of Absorbing Discrete Diffusion

Xunpeng Huang, Yingyu Lin, Nishant Jain +4

Absorbing discrete diffusion has emerged as a dominant framework for discrete data generation. However, a significant disparity remains between its empirical success and theoretica…

stat.ML2025

Almost Linear Convergence under Minimal Score Assumptions: Quantized Transition Diffusion

Xunpeng Huang, Yingyu Lin, Nikki Lijing Kuang +4

Continuous diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in data generation across various domains, yet their efficiency remains constrained by two critical limitations…

cs.LG2025

Multi-Step Consistency Models: Fast Generation with Theoretical Guarantees

Nishant Jain, Xunpeng Huang, Yian Ma +1

Consistency models have recently emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional SDE-based diffusion models. They offer a significant acceleration in generation by producing hig…

cs.LG2025

Capturing Conditional Dependence via Auto-regressive Diffusion Models

Xunpeng Huang, Yujin Han, Difan Zou +2

Diffusion models have demonstrated appealing performance in both image and video generation. However, many works discover that they struggle to capture important, high-level relati…

stat.ML2024

Faster Sampling via Stochastic Gradient Proximal Sampler

Xunpeng Huang, Difan Zou, Yi-An Ma +2

Stochastic gradients have been widely integrated into Langevin-based methods to improve their scalability and efficiency in solving large-scale sampling problems. However, the prox…

stat.ML2024

Reverse Transition Kernel: A Flexible Framework to Accelerate Diffusion Inference

Xunpeng Huang, Difan Zou, Hanze Dong +3

To generate data from trained diffusion models, most inference algorithms, such as DDPM, DDIM, and other variants, rely on discretizing the reverse SDEs or their equivalent ODEs. I…

cs.LG2024

An Improved Analysis of Langevin Algorithms with Prior Diffusion for Non-Log-Concave Sampling

Xunpeng Huang, Hanze Dong, Difan Zou +1

Understanding the dimension dependency of computational complexity in high-dimensional sampling problem is a fundamental problem, both from a practical and theoretical perspective.…

stat.ML2024

Faster Sampling without Isoperimetry via Diffusion-based Monte Carlo

Xunpeng Huang, Difan Zou, Hanze Dong +2

To sample from a general target distribution beyond the isoperimetric condition, Huang et al. (2023) proposed to perform sampling through reverse diffusion, g…