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Qinsheng Zhang

18 accepted papers

2026

DiffusionNFT: Online Diffusion Reinforcement with Forward Process

ICLR 2026oral

Online reinforcement learning (RL) has been central to post-training language models, but its extension to diffusion models remains challenging due to intractable likelihoods. Recent works discretize the reverse sampling process to enable GRPO-style training, yet they inherit fundamental drawbacks,…

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2026

Large Scale Diffusion Distillation via Score-Regularized Continuous-Time Consistency

ICLR 2026poster

Although continuous-time consistency models (e.g., sCM, MeanFlow) are theoretically principled and empirically powerful for fast academic-scale diffusion, its applicability to large-scale text-to-image and video tasks remains unclear due to infrastructure challenges in Jacobian-vector product (JVP)…

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2026

NFT: Bridging Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Math Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has played a central role in the recent surge of LLMs' math abilities by enabling verification-driven training through binary verifier signals. In contrast, Supervised Learning (SL) is rarely considered for such verification-driven training, largely due to its heavy relia…

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2025

Direct Discriminative Optimization: Your Likelihood-Based Visual Generative Model is Secretly a GAN Discriminator

ICML 2025spotlight

While likelihood-based generative models, particularly diffusion and autoregressive models, have achieved remarkable fidelity in visual generation, the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) objective, which minimizes the forward KL divergence, inherently suffers from a mode-covering tendency that limi…

2025

EdgeRunner: Auto-regressive Auto-encoder for Artistic Mesh Generation

ICLR 2025poster

Current auto-regressive mesh generation methods suffer from issues such as incompleteness, insufficient detail, and poor generalization. In this paper, we propose an Auto-regressive Auto-encoder (ArAE) model capable of generating high-quality 3D meshes with up to 4,000 faces at a spatial resolution…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar
2025

High-Quality Joint Image and Video Tokenization with Causal VAE

ICLR 2025poster

Generative modeling has seen significant advancements in image and video synthesis. However, the curse of dimensionality remains a significant obstacle, especially for video generation, given its inherently complex and high-dimensional nature. Many existing works rely on low-dimensional latent space…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

Masked Diffusion Models are Secretly Time-Agnostic Masked Models and Exploit Inaccurate Categorical Sampling

ICLR 2025poster

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) have emerged as a popular research topic for generative modeling of discrete data, thanks to their superior performance over other discrete diffusion models, and are rivaling the auto-regressive models (ARMs) for language modeling tasks. The recent effort in simplifyin…

Cited by 21SourcePDFScholar
2024

Condition-Aware Neural Network for Controlled Image Generation

CVPR 2024poster

We present Condition-Aware Neural Network (CAN) a new method for adding control to image generative models. In parallel to prior conditional control methods CAN controls the image generation process by dynamically manipulating the weight of the neural network. This is achieved by introducing a condi…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2024

DistriFusion: Distributed Parallel Inference for High-Resolution Diffusion Models

CVPR 2024highlight

Diffusion models have achieved great success in synthesizing high-quality images. However generating high-resolution images with diffusion models is still challenging due to the enormous computational costs resulting in a prohibitive latency for interactive applications. In this paper we propose Dis…

2024

RefDrop: Controllable Consistency in Image or Video Generation via Reference Feature Guidance

NeurIPS 2024poster

There is a rapidly growing interest in controlling consistency across multiple generated images using diffusion models. Among various methods, recent works have found that simply manipulating attention modules by concatenating features from multiple reference images provides an efficient approach to…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Symbolic Music Generation with Non-Differentiable Rule Guided Diffusion

ICML 2024oral

We study the problem of symbolic music generation (e.g., generating piano rolls), with a technical focus on non-differentiable rule guidance. Musical rules are often expressed in symbolic form on note characteristics, such as note density or chord progression, many of which are non-differentiable wh…

2023

DiffCollage: Parallel Generation of Large Content With Diffusion Models

CVPR 2023poster

We present DiffCollage, a compositional diffusion model that can generate large content by leveraging diffusion models trained on generating pieces of the large content. Our approach is based on a factor graph representation where each factor node represents a portion of the content and a variable n…

Cited by 76SourcePDFScholar
2023

Loss-Guided Diffusion Models for Plug-and-Play Controllable Generation

ICML 2023poster

We consider guiding denoising diffusion models with general differentiable loss functions in a plug-and-play fashion, enabling controllable generation without additional training. This paradigm, termed Loss-Guided Diffusion (LGD), can easily be integrated into all diffusion models and leverage vario…

Cited by 89SourcePDFScholar
2022

Variational Wasserstein gradient flow

ICML 2022spotlight

Wasserstein gradient flow has emerged as a promising approach to solve optimization problems over the space of probability distributions. A recent trend is to use the well-known JKO scheme in combination with input convex neural networks to numerically implement the proximal step. The most challengi…