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Anru Zhang

5 accepted papers

2026

Planner Aware Path Learning in Diffusion Language Models Training

ICLR 2026oral

Diffusion language models have emerged as a powerful alternative to autoregressive models, enabling fast inference through more flexible and parallel generation paths. This flexibility of sampling is unlocked by new engineered sampling strategies, or *planners*, that select more favorable generation…

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2026

The Geometry of Reasoning: Flowing Logics in Representation Space

ICLR 2026poster

We study how large language models (LLMs) “think” through their representation space. We propose a novel geometric framework that models an LLM’s reasoning as flows—embedding trajectories evolving where logic goes. We disentangle logical structure from semantics by employing the same natural deduc…

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2023

Phase transition for detecting a small community in a large network

ICLR 2023poster

How to detect a small community in a large network is an interesting problem, including clique detection as a special case, where a naive degree-based $\chi^2$-test was shown to be powerful in the presence of an Erdös-Renyi (ER) background. Using Sinkhorn's theorem, we show that the signal captured…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2023

Sampling is as easy as learning the score: theory for diffusion models with minimal data assumptions

ICLR 2023top-5%

We provide theoretical convergence guarantees for score-based generative models (SGMs) such as denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs), which constitute the backbone of large-scale real-world generative models such as DALL$\cdot$E 2. Our main result is that, assuming accurate score estimate…

Cited by 335SourcePDFScholar