2 papers
cs.LG2026
Uniform Diffusion Models Revisited: Leave-One-Out Denoiser and Absorbing State Reformulation
Samson Gourevitch, Yazid Janati, Dario Shariatian +4
Discrete diffusion models are often trained through clean-data prediction, but the prediction can be used in different ways to define the reverse dynamics. In Masked Diffusion Mode…
cs.LG2026
Categorical Reparameterization with Denoising Diffusion models
Samson Gourevitch, Alain Durmus, Eric Moulines +2
Learning models with categorical variables requires optimizing expectations over discrete distributions, a setting in which stochastic gradient-based optimization is challenging du…