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Teodora Pandeva

4 accepted papers

2026

Forward-Learned Discrete Diffusion: Learning how to noise to denoise faster

ICLR 2026poster

Discrete diffusion models are a powerful class of generative models that demonstrate strong performance across many domains. However, for efficiency, discrete diffusion typically parameterizes the generative (reverse) process with factorized distributions, which makes it difficult for the model to l…

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2026

Parallel Sampling from Masked Diffusion Models via Conditional Independence Testing

ICLR 2026poster

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) offer a compelling alternative to autoregres- sive models (ARMs) for discrete text generation because they enable parallel token sampling, rather than sequential, left-to-right generation. This means po- tentially much faster inference. However, effective parallel samp…

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2023

Multi-View Independent Component Analysis with Shared and Individual Sources

UAI 2023poster

Independent component analysis (ICA) is a blind source separation method for linear disentanglement of independent latent sources from observed data. We investigate the special setting of noisy linear ICA, referred to as ShIndICA, where the observations are split among different views, each receivi…