2026
ArcDAE: Asymmetric Rectified Contrastive Diffusion Autoencoder for Unified Representation Learning
ICML 2026poster
The unification of generative details and discriminative semantics presents a structural paradox in \textit{diffusion-based representation learning}. Early approaches decouple semantics from generation, inevitably compromising representational completeness (i.e., \textit{information split}). While r…