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7 papers

cs.LG2026

CountsDiff: A Diffusion Model on the Natural Numbers for Generation and Imputation of Count-Based Data

Renzo G. Soatto, Anders Hoel, Greycen Ren +5

Diffusion models have excelled at generative tasks for both continuous and token-based domains, but their application to discrete ordinal data remains underdeveloped. We present Co…

cs.AI2026

Coevolutionary Continuous Discrete Diffusion: Make Your Diffusion Language Model a Latent Reasoner

Cai Zhou, Chenxiao Yang, Yi Hu +7

Diffusion language models, especially masked discrete diffusion models, have achieved great success recently. While there are some theoretical and primary empirical results showing…

cs.LG2026

Online Reasoning Calibration: Test-Time Training Enables Generalizable Conformal LLM Reasoning

Cai Zhou, Zekai Wang, Menghua Wu +6

While test-time scaling has enabled large language models to solve highly difficult tasks, state-of-the-art results come at exorbitant compute costs. These inefficiencies can be at…

cs.LG2026

Rethinking Diffusion Models with Symmetries through Canonicalization with Applications to Molecular Graph Generation

Cai Zhou, Zijie Chen, Zian Li +7

Many generative tasks in chemistry and science involve distributions invariant to group symmetries (e.g., permutation and rotation). A common strategy enforces invariance and equiv…

cs.LG2025

Learning Diffusion Models with Flexible Representation Guidance

Chenyu Wang, Cai Zhou, Sharut Gupta +4

Diffusion models can be improved with additional guidance towards more effective representations of input. Indeed, prior empirical work has already shown that aligning internal rep…

cs.CL2025

Next Semantic Scale Prediction via Hierarchical Diffusion Language Models

Cai Zhou, Chenyu Wang, Dinghuai Zhang +4

In this paper we introduce Hierarchical Diffusion Language Models (HDLM) -- a novel family of discrete diffusion models for language modeling. HDLM builds on a hierarchical vocabul…