Improved language generation with faster sampling speed.
problem Speed and coherence issues in autoregressive language models.
method Introduces Neural Flow Diffusion Models (NFDM) for discrete state spaces.
result Substantially reduces likelihood gap with autoregressive models.
Latent Block-Diffusion Temporal Point Processes (LBDTPP) is a semi-autoregressive framework for generating asynchronous event sequences.
problem Generating asynchronous event sequences
method Latent Block-Diffusion Temporal Point Processes
result Outperforms state-of-the-art TPP baselines in both unconditional and conditional generation tasks
Discriminator guidance improves autoregressive diffusion models for generating molecular graphs.
problem Improving the accuracy of autoregressive diffusion models for generating molecular graphs.
method Deriving ways to use a discriminator with a pretrained generative model in the discrete case, including optimal and sub-optimal scenarios.
result Using a discriminator can correct pretrained models and improve exact sampling from the data distribution.
ARDMs are a new model class for autoregressive diffusion that generalize existing models and can compress data efficiently.
problem Efficient data compression and generation.
method Autoregressive Diffusion Models (ARDMs) that generalize existing autoregressive models and discrete diffusion models.
result ARDMs require significantly fewer steps for compression compared to discrete diffusion models.
Diffusion models generate music sequences without autoregressive loops.
problem Generating music sequences from symbolic data using diffusion models.
method Parameterize discrete symbolic data in continuous latent space, train diffusion model, generate sequences through reverse process.
result Strong unconditional generation and post-hoc conditional infilling compared to autoregressive models.
PARD generates graphs efficiently and invariantly to node ordering.
problem Graph generation sensitivity to node ordering.
method Integrates autoregressive and diffusion models with a partial order for nodes and edges.
result PARD achieves state-of-the-art performance on molecular and non-molecular datasets.
Non-autoregressive method speeds up protein folding prediction 23 times.
problem Generating protein sequences with higher order interactions.
method Discrete diffusion conditioned on 3D structure using ProteinMPNN.
result 23 times speed up in inference without performance loss.
This research explores discrete diffusion models for natural language generation.
problem Challenges in applying diffusion models to discrete data, especially natural language.
method Investigates Discrete Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (D3PM) and compares it with autoregressive models.
result Discrete diffusion models achieve better processing speed than autoregressive models.
New diffusion models can generate text faster than traditional autoregressive models.
problem The slow generation time of autoregressive models.
method Theoretical analysis of diffusion language models using information theory.
result The sampling error in diffusion models decays with fewer iterations than the text sequence length.
Study shows how crypto asset liquidity is affected by wash trading and proposes treatment to reduce liquidity diffusion.
problem Understanding and reducing crypto asset wash trading to improve liquidity.
method Proposed a two-component model for liquidity (jump and diffusion) and demonstrated the effectiveness of autoregressive models.
result Treatment on wash trading significantly reduces liquidity diffusion but not liquidity jump.
DiAMoNDBack models protein backmapping from coarse-grained Cα traces.
problem Restoring all-atom details from coarse-grained protein representations.
method Autoregressive denoising diffusion model for residue-by-residue backmapping.
result Achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction performance in diverse applications.
Thermalizer stabilizes autoregressive models for long-term predictions in chaotic systems.
problem Long-term predictions in chaotic spatiotemporal systems are unreliable due to trajectory divergence.
method Diffusion models are used to implicitly estimate the score of an invariant measure, which stabilizes autoregressive emulators by applying denoising during inference.
result Thermalization extends the time horizon of stable predictions by an order of magnitude in chaotic systems.
Unified diffusion framework enhances generative models flexibility.
problem Improving generative models' design freedom and efficiency.
method Unified framework incorporating choice of representation, prior distribution, and noise scheduling.
result Enhanced flexibility leading to more efficient training and data generation.
WaveGrad generates high-fidelity audio using gradient estimation.
problem Generating high-fidelity audio efficiently.
method Conditional model using score matching and diffusion models, iteratively refining a Gaussian white noise signal.
result WaveGrad can generate high-fidelity audio samples using as few as six iterations.
DDPD separates generation into planning and denoising for improved efficiency.
problem Efficiently denoise corrupted data during generation.
method Separates generation into a planner and denoiser, selecting denoising positions based on corruption severity.
result DDPD outperforms traditional methods on language and image generation benchmarks.
Simplified masked diffusion models improve discrete data generation.
problem Complex model formulations and unclear relationships hinder discrete data generative modeling.
method Developed a simple and general framework for masked diffusion models.
result Models trained on OpenWebText surpass prior diffusion language models and outperform autoregressive models.
New algorithm speeds up diffusion model sampling 4-14 times.
problem Time-consuming sampling from diffusion models.
method Parallelizing autoregressive process through fixed-point iteration.
result ParaTAA reduces inference steps by 4-14 times.
New method boosts performance of diffusion models on discrete data like natural language.
problem Performance of diffusion models on discrete data like natural language is poor.
method Proposes score entropy, a novel loss that extends score matching to discrete spaces.
result Significantly boosts performance on language modeling tasks.
New bidirectional model predicts magnetohydrodynamics fields and estimates uncertainty.
problem Predicting multiple fields in magnetohydrodynamics with uncertainty.
method Bidirectional autoregressive latent diffusion approach.
result Model can estimate uncertainty without ground truth using self-supervised consistency.
Theoretical analysis shows MDMs can be efficient but not for all metrics.
problem Understanding the efficiency-accuracy trade-off of diffusion language models.
method Theoretical analysis of Masked Diffusion Model (MDM) using perplexity and sequence error rate as metrics.
result MDM achieves near-optimal perplexity but requires linear scaling for sequence error rate, highlighting efficiency-accuracy trade-offs.
CSDI improves time series imputation by 40-65% over existing methods.
problem Imputing missing values in time series data.
method Conditional Score-based Diffusion models conditioned on observed data.
result CSDI improves by 40-65% over existing probabilistic imputation methods on popular metrics.
This research compares masked diffusion models to autoregressive language models, focusing on architectural differences.
problem Comparing masked diffusion models to autoregressive language models due to architectural differences.
method Equitably compare MDMs within a decoder-only framework, investigating architectural influences.
result Decoder-only MDMs can achieve significant speedups and comparable perplexity with temperature annealing.
DiffWave generates high-fidelity audio waveforms efficiently.
problem Conditional and unconditional audio waveform generation.
method Non-autoregressive diffusion model using Markov chain synthesis.
result DiffWave produces high-quality audios in various tasks.
A new model trains prior and encoder/decoder networks simultaneously for efficient generation.
problem Complex autoregressive prior in VQ-VAE models leads to slow generation.
method Builds a diffusion bridge between continuous and non-informative prior distributions.
result Model is competitive and efficient in optimization and sampling.
High-quality image synthesis with diffusion models, achieving state-of-the-art FID score.
problem Generating high-quality images from latent variables.
method Training diffusion probabilistic models with a weighted variational bound, inspired by denoising score matching and Langevin dynamics.
result State-of-the-art FID score of 3.17 on CIFAR10 dataset.
Maximum likelihood training improves the performance of score-based diffusion models.
problem Training score-based diffusion models with maximum likelihood.
method Trained by minimizing a weighted combination of score matching losses, with a specific weighting scheme that bounds negative log-likelihood.
result Maximum likelihood training improves the log-likelihood of score-based diffusion models across multiple datasets.
Paper presents a new video generation model using diffusion probabilistic methods.
problem Generating high-quality video sequences.
method Denoising diffusion probabilistic models, autoregressive, end-to-end optimization.
result Significant improvements in perceptual quality and probabilistic frame forecasting.
Generative model downgrades coarse satellite images to fine resolution.
problem Reconstructing fine resolution satellite images from coarse scale inputs.
method Combines U-Net transfer encoder with diffusion-based generative model.
result Excellent performance (R2 = 0.65 to 0.94) across seasonal regional splits.
Remasking improves the quality of discrete diffusion models for natural language and image generation.
problem Limited iterative refinement in masked discrete diffusion models.
method Introducing ReMDM sampler that allows remasking during inference.
result Remasking enables better quality outputs with increased sampling steps.
Unified framework for discrete diffusion modeling with flexible noising processes.
problem Efficient modeling of large discrete state spaces with arbitrary corruption dynamics.
method Generalized Discrete Diffusion from Snapshots (GDDS) framework that supports uniformization for fast noising and snapshot-based ELBO for reverse process.
result GDDS outperforms existing discrete diffusion methods in training efficiency and generation quality.
Global watermark for diffusion language models decouples detection from local contexts.
problem Watermarking in diffusion language models is challenging due to joint sampling of distributions over many unresolved positions.
method Proposes a global vector-valued sketch representation to control watermarking in masked diffusion language models.
result The method decouples detection from local contexts, resulting in an order-agnostic statistic and robustness.
ADD-THIN improves TPP forecasting by handling long-term data sequences.
problem Sequential limitations in autoregressive models for TPPs.
method Diffusion model for TPPs that operates on entire sequences.
result ADD-THIN outperforms state-of-the-art models in forecasting.
We introduce an autoregressive-type model of prices in financial market taking into account the self-modulation effect. We find that traders are mainly using strategies with weighted feedbacks of past prices. These feedbacks are responsible for the slow diffusion in short times, apparent trends and power law distributi…
AutoGraph uses transformers to efficiently generate graphs as sequences.
problem Efficiently generating large, sparse graphs without expensive node features.
method Flattening graphs into sequences and using decoder-only transformers.
result AutoGraph achieves state-of-the-art performance on synthetic and molecular benchmarks.
Fastens diffusion model sampling by distillation.
problem Slow sampling time of diffusion models.
method New parameterizations and progressive distillation.
result Models can be distilled to take half as many sampling steps.
LTMs use latent vectors for efficient autoregressive generation.
problem Efficient autoregressive generation in language models.
method Dual-rate optimization in variational Bayes framework.
result LTMs achieve superior sample and parameter efficiency.
A new model for point processes without intensity function trade-offs.
problem Inefficiency and trade-offs in existing point process models.
method Point Set Diffusion, a diffusion-based latent variable model.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance in point process generation.
Diffusion LLMs can efficiently generate harmful prompts for adversarial testing.
problem Generating harmful prompts for adversarial testing is resource-intensive and costly.
method Transformed adversarial prompt optimization into an efficient inference task using pretrained Diffusion LLMs.
result Only a few conditional samples are required to generate harmful prompts with high reward.
DiffObs predicts global precipitation with realistic wave modes and low frequency variations.
problem Predicting global precipitation evolution using satellite observations.
method Autoregressive generative diffusion model trained on satellite data.
result Model generates realistic wave modes and low frequency variations, validating its potential for climate prediction.
Unified continuous diffusion model outperforms discrete alternatives in scalability and quality.
problem Continuous diffusion models were perceived as less scalable than discrete models.
method Reconstructed Plaid model and compared it with modern discrete DLMs, optimizing noise schedule and embeddings via likelihood.
result Unified continuous diffusion model (RePlaid) outperforms discrete models in compute efficiency and quality.
New methods improve memory efficiency for sampling from complex distributions.
problem Sampling from complex unnormalized distributions over discrete domains.
method Two novel training methods for discrete diffusion samplers.
result Achieve state-of-the-art results in unsupervised combinatorial optimization.
Researchers improve imputation of missing data using diffusion transformers, quantifying uncertainty.
problem Enhancing the quality of time-series data with missing values.
method Conditional diffusion transformers for imputation, with statistical sample complexity bounds and uncertainty quantification.
result Theoretical insights into the efficiency and accuracy of imputation, influenced by missing patterns.
ERDM integrates rolling forecasts with diffusion models for complex dynamics.
problem Forecasting complex dynamics with rolling forecasts and diffusion models.
method Adapting EDM components for rolling forecasts, introducing novel loss weighting, efficient initialization, and hybrid architecture.
result ERDM outperforms diffusion-based baselines in 2D Navier-Stokes simulations and ERA5 weather forecasting.
Conservation laws improve diffusion model training by optimizing likelihood.
problem Training diffusion models with denoising objectives.
method Developed conservation laws based on GEXIT functions for memoryless noise processes.
result Unified characterization of diffusion model likelihood, reducing training to learning marginal posteriors.
DTM improves dLLM fine-tuning stability and performance.
problem Intractable sequence-level marginal likelihoods for masked diffusion models.
method Discrete Tilt Matching (DTM) recasts dLLM fine-tuning as state-level matching of local unmasking posteriors under reward tilting.
result DTM yields strong gains on Sudoku and Countdown while remaining competitive on MATH500 and GSM8K.
Generative diffusion models improve financial LOB simulation and forecasting.
problem High noise and complexity in financial LOB data makes deep generative models ineffective.
method Convert LOB data to images, apply diffusion models with inpainting for long-term sequence generation.
result Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on LOB-Bench, improving coherence over local details.
Improved language models using ratio-matching and KL divergence.
problem Efficiently modeling discrete data with diffusion models.
method Introduced new theorems and a novel CTMC transition-rate matrix for ratio-matching and KL divergence.
result 10-15% improvement in perplexity and faster training steps.
Improved diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art likelihoods in image density estimation.
problem Improving likelihood-based performance of diffusion models.
method Joint optimization of noise schedule and model parameters, using signal-to-noise ratio simplification.
result State-of-the-art likelihoods on image density estimation benchmarks, faster optimization.