2 papers
cs.CV2026
Inference-Time Search Using Side Information for Diffusion-Based Image Reconstruction
Mahdi Farahbakhsh, Vishnu Teja Kunde, Dileep Kalathil +2
Diffusion models have been used as priors for solving inverse problems. However, existing approaches typically overlook side information that could significantly improve reconstruc…
cs.LG2026
Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion LLMs with Entropy-Guided Step Selection and Stepwise Advantages
Vishnu Teja Kunde, Fatemeh Doudi, Mahdi Farahbakhsh +3
Reinforcement learning (RL) has been effective for post-training autoregressive (AR) language models, but extending these methods to diffusion language models (DLMs) is challenging…