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most citedImproving Diffusion Inverse Problem Solving with Decoupled Noise Annealing

18 citations · 19 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

Multi-Objective Protein Optimization via Modular Diffusion Steering

Meir Roketlishvili, Felix Huber, Wenda Chu +2

Protein engineering often requires improving several properties simultaneously, motivating the search for high-performing sequences that represent useful fitness tradeoffs. Discove…

cs.LG2026

On the Design Space of Discrete Diffusion Online Adaptation for Molecular Optimization

Trevor Chen, Ariel Dai, Jason Yang +8

Molecular optimization often starts from a pretrained generative model that captures a broad prior over valid molecular structures. At test time, however, the goal is not to sample…

cs.CV2026

End-to-End Autoregressive Image Generation with 1D Semantic Tokenizer

Wenda Chu, Bingliang Zhang, Jiaqi Han +4

Autoregressive image modeling relies on visual tokenizers to compress images into compact latent representations. We design an end-to-end training pipeline that jointly optimizes r…

cs.LG2025

Discrete Diffusion Trajectory Alignment via Stepwise Decomposition

Jiaqi Han, Austin Wang, Minkai Xu +6

Discrete diffusion models have demonstrated great promise in modeling various sequence data, ranging from human language to biological sequences. Inspired by the success of RL in l…

q-bio.BM2025

Steering Generative Models with Experimental Data for Protein Fitness Optimization

Jason Yang, Wenda Chu, Daniel Khalil +4

Protein fitness optimization involves finding a protein sequence that maximizes desired quantitative properties in a combinatorially large design space of possible sequences. Recen…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

InverseBench: Benchmarking Plug-and-Play Diffusion Priors for Inverse Problems in Physical Sciences

Hongkai Zheng, Wenda Chu, Bingliang Zhang +9

Plug-and-play diffusion priors (PnPDP) have emerged as a promising research direction for solving inverse problems. However, current studies primarily focus on natural image restor…

cs.LG2025

Split Gibbs Discrete Diffusion Posterior Sampling

Wenda Chu, Zihui Wu, Yifan Chen +2

We study the problem of posterior sampling in discrete-state spaces using discrete diffusion models. While posterior sampling methods for continuous diffusion models have achieved…

cs.LG2024

Ensemble Kalman Diffusion Guidance: A Derivative-free Method for Inverse Problems

Hongkai Zheng, Wenda Chu, Austin Wang +3

When solving inverse problems, one increasingly popular approach is to use pre-trained diffusion models as plug-and-play priors. This framework can accommodate different forward mo…

cs.LG2024★ 18 cited

Improving Diffusion Inverse Problem Solving with Decoupled Noise Annealing

Bingliang Zhang, Wenda Chu, Julius Berner +3

Diffusion models have recently achieved success in solving Bayesian inverse problems with learned data priors. Current methods build on top of the diffusion sampling process, where…

cs.LG2024

COMMIT: Certifying Robustness of Multi-Sensor Fusion Systems against Semantic Attacks

Zijian Huang, Wenda Chu, Linyi Li +2

Multi-sensor fusion systems (MSFs) play a vital role as the perception module in modern autonomous vehicles (AVs). Therefore, ensuring their robustness against common and realistic…