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Variational Test-time Optimization for Diffusion Synchronization
Hyunsoo Lee, Farrin Marouf Sofian, Kushagra Pandey +1
Collaborative generation, which coordinates multiple diffusion trajectories to extend the capabilities of pretrained priors, has emerged as a powerful paradigm for extending the ap…
Hierarchical Variational Policies for Reward-Guided Diffusion
Kushagra Pandey, Farrin Marouf Sofian, Jan Niklas Groeneveld +2
Adapting pretrained diffusion models to downstream objectives such as inverse problems often requires expensive test-time guidance or optimization. We propose a principled framewor…
Control-Augmented Autoregressive Diffusion for Data Assimilation
Prakhar Srivastava, Farrin Marouf Sofian, Francesco Immorlano +2
Despite advances in test-time scaling and diffusion finetuning, guidance for Auto-Regressive Diffusion Models (ARDMs) remains underexplored. We introduce an amortized framework tha…
Variational Control for Guidance in Diffusion Models
Kushagra Pandey, Farrin Marouf Sofian, Felix Draxler +2
Diffusion models exhibit excellent sample quality, but existing guidance methods often require additional model training or are limited to specific tasks. We revisit guidance in di…
Heavy-Tailed Diffusion Models
Kushagra Pandey, Jaideep Pathak, Yilun Xu +4
Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art generation quality across many applications, but their ability to capture rare or extreme events in heavy-tailed distributions remains unc…
Fast Samplers for Inverse Problems in Iterative Refinement Models
Kushagra Pandey, Ruihan Yang, Stephan Mandt
Constructing fast samplers for unconditional diffusion and flow-matching models has received much attention recently; however, existing methods for solving inverse problems, such a…