Theory
16 items tagged
Where the Score Lives: A Wavelet View of Diffusion
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2026
Emma Lucia Byrnes Finn, Binxu Wang, T. Anderson Keller, Demba E. Ba
Matching Accuracy, Different Geometry: Evolution Strategies vs GRPO in LLM Post-training
under review at COLM 2026
William Hoy, Binxu Wang, Xu Pan
A Random Matrix Perspective on the Consistency of Diffusion Models
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.02908 (under review at ICML)
Binxu Wang, Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth, Cengiz Pehlevan
An analytical theory of power law spectral bias in the learning dynamics of diffusion models
NeurIPS 2025 (spotlight, top 3%) — arXiv:2503.03206
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Spotlight — top 3%
Binxu Wang, Cengiz Pehlevan
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Gaussian Score Approximation for Diffusion Models and its Applications
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (arXiv:2412.09726)
Binxu Wang, John J Vastola
The hidden linear structure in score-based models and its application
NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Diffusion Models (arXiv:2311.10892)
Binxu Wang, John J Vastola
Diffusion models generate images like painters: an analytical theory of outline first, details later
arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.02490
Binxu Wang, John J Vastola
Mutual information and information gating in synfire chains
Entropy
Zhuocheng Xiao, Binxu Wang, Andrew T Sornborger, Louis Tao