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6 papers

stat.ML2026

Corrected Samplers for Discrete Flow Models

Zhengyan Wan, Yidong Ouyang, Liyan Xie +3

Discrete flow models (DFMs) have been proposed to learn the data distribution on finite state space, offering a flexible framework as an alternative to discrete diffusion models. A…

math.ST2026

Error Analysis of Discrete Flow with Generator Matching

Zhengyan Wan, Yidong Ouyang, Qiang Yao +4

Discrete flow models offer a powerful framework for learning distributions over discrete state spaces and have demonstrated superior performance compared to the discrete diffusion…

cs.LG2026

Discrete Guidance Matching: Exact Guidance for Discrete Flow Matching

Zhengyan Wan, Yidong Ouyang, Liyan Xie +3

Guidance provides a simple and effective framework for posterior sampling by steering the generation process towards the desired distribution. When modeling discrete data, existing…

cs.LG2026

Flow-based Policy With Distributional Reinforcement Learning in Trajectory Optimization

Ruijie Hao, Longfei Zhang, Yang Dai +3

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has proven highly effective in addressing complex control and decision-making tasks. However, in most traditional RL algorithms, the policy is typically…

stat.ML2026

Training-Free Self-Correction for Multimodal Masked Diffusion Models

Yidong Ouyang, Panwen Hu, Zhengyan Wan +7

Masked diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for text and multimodal generation. However, their sampling procedure updates multiple tokens simultaneously and treats…

stat.ML2026

Alignment of Diffusion Model and Flow Matching for Text-to-Image Generation

Yidong Ouyang, Liyan Xie, Hongyuan Zha +1

Diffusion models and flow matching have demonstrated remarkable success in text-to-image generation. While many existing alignment methods primarily focus on fine-tuning pre-traine…