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most citedAligning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Reward Backpropagation

5 citations · 7 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.LG2026

Solving Physics Olympiad via Reinforcement Learning on Physics Simulators

Mihir Prabhudesai, Aryan Satpathy, Yangmin Li +6

We have witnessed remarkable advances in LLM reasoning capabilities with the advent of DeepSeek-R1. However, much of this progress has been fueled by the abundance of internet ques…

cs.CV2026

Iterative Refinement Improves Compositional Image Generation

Shantanu Jaiswal, Mihir Prabhudesai, Nikash Bhardwaj +5

Text-to-image (T2I) models have achieved remarkable progress, yet they continue to struggle with complex prompts that require simultaneously handling multiple objects, relations, a…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Self-Questioning Language Models

Lili Chen, Mihir Prabhudesai, Katerina Fragkiadaki +2

Can large language models improve without external data -- by generating their own questions and answers? We hypothesize that a pre-trained language model can improve its reasoning…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Can LLMs Lie? Investigation beyond Hallucination

Haoran Huan, Mihir Prabhudesai, Mengning Wu +2

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks, but their increasing autonomy in real-world applications raises concerns about the…

cs.LG2025

Diffusion Beats Autoregressive in Data-Constrained Settings

Mihir Prabhudesai, Mengning Wu, Amir Zadeh +2

Autoregressive (AR) models have long dominated the landscape of large language models, driving progress across a wide range of tasks. Recently, diffusion-based language models have…

cs.LG2025

Maximizing Confidence Alone Improves Reasoning

Mihir Prabhudesai, Lili Chen, Alex Ippoliti +3

Reinforcement learning (RL) has enabled machine learning models to achieve significant advances in many fields. Most recently, RL has empowered frontier language models to solve ch…

cs.CV2025

Unified Multimodal Discrete Diffusion

Alexander Swerdlow, Mihir Prabhudesai, Siddharth Gandhi +2

Multimodal generative models that can understand and generate across multiple modalities are dominated by autoregressive (AR) approaches, which process tokens sequentially from lef…

cs.LG2024

On the Surprising Effectiveness of Attention Transfer for Vision Transformers

Alexander C. Li, Yuandong Tian, Beidi Chen +2

Conventional wisdom suggests that pre-training Vision Transformers (ViT) improves downstream performance by learning useful representations. Is this actually true? We investigate t…

cs.CV2024

Video Diffusion Alignment via Reward Gradients

Mihir Prabhudesai, Russell Mendonca, Zheyang Qin +2

We have made significant progress towards building foundational video diffusion models. As these models are trained using large-scale unsupervised data, it has become crucial to ad…

cs.CV2023

Diffusion-TTA: Test-time Adaptation of Discriminative Models via Generative Feedback

Mihir Prabhudesai, Tsung-Wei Ke, Alexander C. Li +2

The advancements in generative modeling, particularly the advent of diffusion models, have sparked a fundamental question: how can these models be effectively used for discriminati…

cs.CV2023★ 5 cited

Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Reward Backpropagation

Mihir Prabhudesai, Anirudh Goyal, Deepak Pathak +1

Text-to-image diffusion models have recently emerged at the forefront of image generation, powered by very large-scale unsupervised or weakly supervised text-to-image training data…