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Alexander Shabalin

3 accepted papers

2026

Smoothie: Smoothing Diffusion on Token Embeddings for Text Generation

ICML 2026poster

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generating images, audio, and video, but their adaptation to text remains challenging due to its discrete nature. Prior approaches either apply Gaussian diffusion in continuous latent spaces, which inherits semantic structure but struggl…

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2025

Compressed and Smooth Latent Space for Text Diffusion Modeling

NeurIPS 2025poster

Autoregressive language models dominate modern text generation, yet their sequential nature introduces fundamental limitations: decoding is slow, and maintaining global coherence remains challenging. Diffusion models offer a promising alternative by enabling parallel generation and flexible control;…

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2025

TEncDM: Understanding the Properties of the Diffusion Model in the Space of Language Model Encodings

AAAI 2025technical

This paper presents the Text Encoding Diffusion Model (TEncDM), a novel approach to diffusion modeling that operates in the space of pre-trained language model encodings. In contrast to traditionally used embeddings, encodings integrate contextual information. In our approach, we also employ a trans…