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Samuel Howard

3 accepted papers

2025

Diffusion Models and the Manifold Hypothesis: Log-Domain Smoothing is Geometry Adaptive

NeurIPS 2025poster

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art performance, demonstrating remarkable generalisation capabilities across diverse domains. However, the mechanisms underpinning these strong capabilities remain only partially understood. A leading conjecture, based on the manifold hypothesis, attribute…

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2025

Schrödinger Bridge Matching for Tree-Structured Costs and Entropic Wasserstein Barycentres

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advances in flow-based generative modelling have provided scalable methods for computing the Schrödinger Bridge (SB) between distributions, a dynamic form of entropy-regularised Optimal Transport (OT) for the quadratic cost. The successful Iterative Markovian Fitting (IMF) procedure solves th…

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