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most citedDenoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models in Six Simple Steps

5 citations · 6 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CL2026

Shieldstral

Antonia Calvi, Avinash Sooriyarachchi, Giada Pistilli +273

We introduce Shieldstral, a 3B-parameter policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that matches or outperforms models nearly 7 its size on text safety benchmarks and set…

cs.LG2026

Otter Weather: Skillful and Computationally Efficient Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

Cristiana Diaconu, Jonas Scholz, Aliaksandra Shysheya +4

State-of-the-art medium-range AI weather models can outperform traditional Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) but require massive training budgets. This restricts usage for under-r…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Emergent Transfer of a Physics Foundation Model from Simulation to Laboratory Turbulence

Payel Mukhopadhyay, Stefan S. Nixon, Romain Watteaux +20

Whether physics foundation models can be usefully deployed on laboratory experiments remains an open question for scientific machine learning (ML). We test this question on the Ray…

cs.LG2026

Probabilistic Retrofitting of Learned Simulators

Cristiana Diaconu, Miles Cranmer, Richard E. Turner +2

Dominant approaches for modelling Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) rely on deterministic predictions, yet many physical systems of interest are inherently chaotic and uncertai…

cs.LG2026

Incremental Transformer Neural Processes

Philip Mortimer, Cristiana Diaconu, Tommy Rochussen +2

Neural Processes (NPs), and specifically Transformer Neural Processes (TNPs), have demonstrated remarkable performance across tasks ranging from spatiotemporal forecasting to tabul…

cs.LG2026

Use What You Know: Causal Foundation Models with Partial Graphs

Arik Reuter, Anish Dhir, Cristiana Diaconu +6

Estimating causal quantities traditionally relies on bespoke estimators tailored to specific assumptions. Recently proposed Causal Foundation Models (CFMs) promise a more unified a…

cs.LG2025

Walrus: A Cross-Domain Foundation Model for Continuum Dynamics

Michael McCabe, Payel Mukhopadhyay, Tanya Marwah +22

Foundation models have transformed machine learning for language and vision, but achieving comparable impact in physical simulation remains a challenge. Data heterogeneity and unst…

cs.LG2025

Estimating Interventional Distributions with Uncertain Causal Graphs through Meta-Learning

Anish Dhir, Cristiana Diaconu, Valentinian Mihai Lungu +3

In scientific domains -- from biology to the social sciences -- many questions boil down to \textit{What effect will we observe if we intervene on a particular variable?} If the ca…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

On conditional diffusion models for PDE simulations

Aliaksandra Shysheya, Cristiana Diaconu, Federico Bergamin +4

Modelling partial differential equations (PDEs) is of crucial importance in science and engineering, and it includes tasks ranging from forecasting to inverse problems, such as dat…

stat.ML2024

Gridded Transformer Neural Processes for Large Unstructured Spatio-Temporal Data

Matthew Ashman, Cristiana Diaconu, Eric Langezaal +2

Many important problems require modelling large-scale spatio-temporal datasets, with one prevalent example being weather forecasting. Recently, transformer-based approaches have sh…

cs.LG2024

In-Context In-Context Learning with Transformer Neural Processes

Matthew Ashman, Cristiana Diaconu, Adrian Weller +1

Neural processes (NPs) are a powerful family of meta-learning models that seek to approximate the posterior predictive map of the ground-truth stochastic process from which each da…

stat.ML2024

Translation Equivariant Transformer Neural Processes

Matthew Ashman, Cristiana Diaconu, Junhyuck Kim +5

The effectiveness of neural processes (NPs) in modelling posterior prediction maps -- the mapping from data to posterior predictive distributions -- has significantly improved sinc…

stat.ML2024

Approximately Equivariant Neural Processes

Matthew Ashman, Cristiana Diaconu, Adrian Weller +2

Equivariant deep learning architectures exploit symmetries in learning problems to improve the sample efficiency of neural-network-based models and their ability to generalise. How…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models in Six Simple Steps

Richard E. Turner, Cristiana-Diana Diaconu, Stratis Markou +3

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) are a very popular class of deep generative model that have been successfully applied to a diverse range of problems including imag…