2026
A Unification of Discrete, Gaussian, and Simplicial Diffusion
Nuria Alina Chandra, Yucen Lily Li, Alan Nawzad Amin, Alex Ali, Joshua Rollins, Sebastian W. Ober +2
ICLR 2026poster
To model discrete sequences such as DNA, proteins, and language using diffusion, practitioners must choose between three major methods: diffusion in discrete space, Gaussian diffusion in Euclidean space, or diffusion on the simplex. Despite their shared goal, these models have disparate algorithms,…