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Marc Mezard

6 accepted papers

2026

Biased Generalization in Diffusion Models

ICML 2026spotlight

Generalization in generative modelling is defined as the ability to learn an underlying distribution from a finite dataset and produce novel samples, with evaluation largely driven by held-out performance and perceived sample quality. In practice, training is often stopped at the minimum of the test…

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2026

Overshoot and Shrinkage in Classifier-Free Guidance: From Theory to Practice

ICLR 2026poster

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is widely used in diffusion and flow-based generative models for high-quality conditional generation, yet its theoretical properties remain incompletely understood. By connecting CFG to the high-dimensional framework of diffusion regimes, we show that in sufficiently h…

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2025

How Transformers Learn Structured Data: Insights From Hierarchical Filtering

ICML 2025poster

Understanding the learning process and the embedded computation in transformers is becoming a central goal for the development of interpretable AI. In the present study, we introduce a hierarchical filtering procedure for data models of sequences on trees, allowing us to hand-tune the range of posit…

2025

Why Diffusion Models Don’t Memorize: The Role of Implicit Dynamical Regularization in Training

NeurIPS 2025oral

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of generative tasks. A key challenge is understanding the mechanisms that prevent their memorization of training data and allow generalization. In this work, we investigate the role of the training dynamics in the transition from…

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2021

Learning curves of generic features maps for realistic datasets with a teacher-student model

NeurIPS 2021poster

Teacher-student models provide a framework in which the typical-case performance of high-dimensional supervised learning can be described in closed form. The assumptions of Gaussian i.i.d. input data underlying the canonical teacher-student model may, however, be perceived as too restrictive to capt…

2020

Generalisation error in learning with random features and the hidden manifold model

ICML 2020poster

We study generalised linear regression and classification for a synthetically generated dataset encompassing different problems of interest, such as learning with random features, neural networks in the lazy training regime, and the hidden manifold model. We consider the high-dimensional regime and…

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