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Shutong Ding

7 accepted papers

2026

Diffusion-based learning framework for Constrained Nonconvex Optimization with Weighted Bootstrapped Refinement

ICML 2026poster

Recent advances in diffusion models show promising potential to accelerate nonconvex problem solving by leveraging their multimodality. However, most existing diffusion-based optimization approaches rely on supervised learning and lack a mechanism to enforce constraint satisfaction, which is require…

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2026

Sample-Efficient Diffusion-based Reinforcement Learning with Critic Guidance

ICML 2026poster

Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have achieved great successes by leveraging the multimodality and exploration capability of diffusion policies. Among these approaches, one representative branch focuses on the weighted-based policy optimization. This design enables better exploration c…

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2025

GenPO: Generative Diffusion Models Meet On-Policy Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have demonstrated the powerful exploration capabilities and multimodality of generative diffusion-based policies. While substantial progress has been made in offline RL and off-policy RL settings, integrating diffusion policies into on-policy frameworks…

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2024

Diffusion-based Reinforcement Learning via Q-weighted Variational Policy Optimization

NeurIPS 2024poster

Diffusion models have garnered widespread attention in Reinforcement Learning (RL) for their powerful expressiveness and multimodality. It has been verified that utilizing diffusion policies can significantly improve the performance of RL algorithms in continuous control tasks by overcoming the limi…

2024

Guidance with Spherical Gaussian Constraint for Conditional Diffusion

ICML 2024poster

Recent advances in diffusion models attempt to handle conditional generative tasks by utilizing a differentiable loss function for guidance without the need for additional training. While these methods achieved certain success, they often compromise on sample quality and require small guidance step…

2023

Reduced Policy Optimization for Continuous Control with Hard Constraints

NeurIPS 2023poster

Recent advances in constrained reinforcement learning (RL) have endowed reinforcement learning with certain safety guarantees. However, deploying existing constrained RL algorithms in continuous control tasks with general hard constraints remains challenging, particularly in those situations with no…

2023

Two Sides of The Same Coin: Bridging Deep Equilibrium Models and Neural ODEs via Homotopy Continuation

NeurIPS 2023poster

Deep Equilibrium Models (DEQs) and Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs) are two branches of implicit models that have achieved remarkable success owing to their superior performance and low memory consumption. While both are implicit models, DEQs and Neural ODEs are derived from diff…