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Kushagra Pandey

5 accepted papers

2025

Heavy-Tailed Diffusion Models

ICLR 2025poster

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art generation quality across many applications, but their ability to capture rare or extreme events in heavy-tailed distributions remains unclear. In this work, we show that traditional diffusion and flow-matching models with standard Gaussian priors fail to ca…

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2025

Variational Control for Guidance in Diffusion Models

ICML 2025poster

Diffusion models exhibit excellent sample quality, but existing guidance methods often require additional model training or are limited to specific tasks. We revisit guidance in diffusion models from the perspective of variational inference and control, introducing \emph{Diffusion Trajectory Matchin…

2024

Fast samplers for Inverse Problems in Iterative Refinement models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Constructing fast samplers for unconditional diffusion and flow-matching models has received much attention recently; however, existing methods for solving *inverse problems*, such as super-resolution, inpainting, or deblurring, still require hundreds to thousands of iterative steps to obtain high-q…