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stat.ML2026
Simple Approximation and Derivative Free Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models via Sequential Monte Carlo on Path Measures
Chenyang Wang, Weizhong Wang, Yinuo Ren +2
iffusion-based generative models increasingly rely on inference-time guidance, adding a drift term or reweighting mixture of experts, to improve sample quality on task-specific obj…
quant-ph2026
Classical and Quantum Speedups for Non-Convex Optimization via Energy Conserving Descent
Yihang Sun, Huaijin Wang, Patrick Hayden +1
We present the first analytical study of ECD, focusing on the one-dimensional setting for this first installment. We formalize a stochastic ECD dynamics (sECD) with energy-preservi…