2026
Test-Time Anchoring for Discrete Diffusion Posterior Sampling
Litu Rout, Andreas Lugmayr, Yasamin Jafarian, Srivatsan Varadharajan, Constantine Caramanis, Sanjay Shakkottai +1
ICML 2026poster
While continuous diffusion models have achieved remarkable success, discrete diffusion offers a unified framework for jointly modeling text and images. Beyond unification, discrete diffusion provides faster inference, finer control, and principled training-free guidance, making it well-suited for po…