Diffusion models: A comprehensive survey of methods and applications

L Yang, Z Zhang, Y Song, S Hong, R Xu, Y Zhao… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful new family of deep generative models with
record-breaking performance in many applications, including image synthesis, video …

Diffusion models in de novo drug design

A Alakhdar, B Poczos, N Washburn - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for molecular generation, particularly in
the context of 3D molecular structures. Inspired by nonequilibrium statistical physics, these …

Simple and effective masked diffusion language models

S Sahoo, M Arriola, Y Schiff… - Advances in …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images, prior work reports a
significant performance gap between diffusion and autoregressive (AR) methods in …

Protein design with guided discrete diffusion

N Gruver, S Stanton, N Frey… - Advances in neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
A popular approach to protein design is to combine a generative model with a discriminative
model for conditional sampling. The generative model samples plausible sequences while …

Understanding diffusion objectives as the elbo with simple data augmentation

D Kingma, R Gao - Advances in Neural Information …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
To achieve the highest perceptual quality, state-of-the-art diffusion models are optimized
with objectives that typically look very different from the maximum likelihood and the …

Difusco: Graph-based diffusion solvers for combinatorial optimization

Z Sun, Y Yang - Advances in neural information processing …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Neural network-based Combinatorial Optimization (CO) methods have shown
promising results in solving various NP-complete (NPC) problems without relying on hand …

Discrete flow matching

I Gat, T Remez, N Shaul, F Kreuk… - Advances in …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Despite Flow Matching and diffusion models having emerged as powerful
generative paradigms for continuous variables such as images and videos, their application …

Generative flows on discrete state-spaces: Enabling multimodal flows with applications to protein co-design

A Campbell, J Yim, R Barzilay, T Rainforth… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Combining discrete and continuous data is an important capability for generative models.
We present Discrete Flow Models (DFMs), a new flow-based model of discrete data that …

Scalable adaptive computation for iterative generation

A Jabri, D Fleet, T Chen - arxiv preprint arxiv:2212.11972, 2022 - arxiv.org
Natural data is redundant yet predominant architectures tile computation uniformly across
their input and output space. We propose the Recurrent Interface Networks (RINs), an …

Diffurec: A diffusion model for sequential recommendation

Z Li, A Sun, C Li - ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Mainstream solutions to sequential recommendation represent items with fixed vectors.
These vectors have limited capability in capturing items' latent aspects and users' diverse …