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The performance of pre-trained masked diffusion models is often constrained by their sampling procedure, which makes decisions irreversible and struggles in low-step generation regimes. We introduce a novel sampling algorithm that works…

Generative tasks about molecules, including but not limited to molecule generation, are crucial for drug discovery and material design, and have consistently attracted significant attention. In recent years, diffusion models have emerged as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Liang Wang , Chao Song , Zhiyuan Liu , Yu Rong , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Drawing from the theory of stochastic differential equations, we introduce a novel sampling method for known distributions and a new algorithm for diffusion generative models with unknown distributions. Our approach is inspired by the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Xicheng Zhang

Diffusion models have been achieving state-of-the-art results across various generation tasks. However, a notable drawback is their sequential generation process, requiring long-sequence step-by-step generation. Existing methods, such as…

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In biopharmaceutical manufacturing, fermentation processes play a critical role in productivity and profit. A fermentation process uses living cells with complex biological mechanisms, leading to high variability in the process outputs,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-09 Bo Wang , Wei Xie , Tugce Martagan , Alp Akcay , Bram van Ravenstein

Diffusion models have shown a great ability at bridging the performance gap between predictive and generative approaches for speech enhancement. We have shown that they may even outperform their predictive counterparts for non-additive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Timo Gerkmann

Masked generative models (MGMs) have shown impressive generative ability while providing an order of magnitude efficient sampling steps compared to continuous diffusion models. However, MGMs still underperform in image synthesis compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Jiwan Hur , Dong-Jae Lee , Gyojin Han , Jaehyun Choi , Yunho Jeon , Junmo Kim

Diffusion models (DMs) have established themselves as the state-of-the-art generative modeling approach in the visual domain and beyond. A crucial drawback of DMs is their slow sampling speed, relying on many sequential function evaluations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Amirmojtaba Sabour , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

Molecular systems often remain trapped for long times around some local minimum of the potential energy function, before switching to another one -- a behavior known as metastability. Simulating transition paths linking one metastable state…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-02 Tony Lelièvre , Geneviève Robin , Inass Sekkat , Gabriel Stoltz , Gabriel Victorino Cardoso

Video generation models have been used as a robot policy to predict the future states of executing a task conditioned on task description and observation. Previous works ignore their high computational cost and long inference time. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Qikang Zhang , Yingjie Lei , Wei Liu , Daochang Liu

Since their introduction, diffusion models have quickly become the prevailing approach to generative modeling in many domains. They can be interpreted as learning the gradients of a time-varying sequence of log-probability density…

Generative AI presents chemists with novel ideas for drug design and facilitates the exploration of vast chemical spaces. Diffusion models (DMs), an emerging tool, have recently attracted great attention in drug R\&D. This paper…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-14 Peining Zhang , Daniel Baker , Minghu Song , Jinbo Bi

Speculative sampling is a popular technique for accelerating inference in Large Language Models by generating candidate tokens using a fast draft model and accepting or rejecting them based on the target model's distribution. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Valentin De Bortoli , Alexandre Galashov , Arthur Gretton , Arnaud Doucet

Any order generation of discrete data using masked diffusion models (MDMs) offers a compelling alternative to traditional autoregressive models, especially in domains that lack a natural causal ordering of data. However, current popular…

In this paper, we study an under-explored but important factor of diffusion generative models, i.e., the combinatorial complexity. Data samples are generally high-dimensional, and for various structured generation tasks, additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Rui Xu , Jiepeng Wang , Hao Pan , Yang Liu , Xin Tong , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

We study the scaling properties of latent diffusion models (LDMs) with an emphasis on their sampling efficiency. While improved network architecture and inference algorithms have shown to effectively boost sampling efficiency of diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Kangfu Mei , Zhengzhong Tu , Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Vishal M. Patel , Peyman Milanfar

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) are a class of powerful deep generative models (DGMs). Despite their success, the iterative generation process over the full timesteps is much less efficient than other DGMs such as GANs. Thus, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Fan Bao , Chongxuan Li , Jiacheng Sun , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

This paper is about the problem of learning a stochastic policy for generating an object (like a molecular graph) from a sequence of actions, such that the probability of generating an object is proportional to a given positive reward for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Emmanuel Bengio , Moksh Jain , Maksym Korablyov , Doina Precup , Yoshua Bengio

Modeling transformations between arbitrary data distributions is a fundamental scientific challenge, arising in applications like drug discovery and evolutionary simulation. While flow matching offers a natural framework for this task, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Shiye Su , Yuhui Zhang , Linqi Zhou , Rajesh Ranganath , Serena Yeung-Levy

Diffusion-based models have shown great promise in molecular generation but often require a large number of sampling steps to generate valid samples. In this paper, we introduce a novel Straight-Line Diffusion Model (SLDM) to tackle this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuyan Ni , Shikun Feng , Haohan Chi , Bowen Zheng , Huan-ang Gao , Wei-Ying Ma , Zhi-Ming Ma , Yanyan Lan
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