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Viacheslav Meshchaninov

7 accepted papers

2026

GeomMotif: A Benchmark for Arbitrary Geometric Preservation in Protein Generation

ICLR 2026poster

Motif scaffolding in protein design involves generating complete protein structures while preserving the 3D geometry of designated structural fragments, analogous to image outpainting in computer vision. Current benchmarks focus on functional motifs, leaving general geometric preservation capabiliti…

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2026

Guided Star-Shaped Masked Diffusion

ICML 2026poster

The performance of pre-trained masked diffusion models is often constrained by their sampling procedure, which makes decisions irreversible and struggles in low-step generation regimes. We introduce a novel sampling algorithm that works with pre-trained models and, after a lightweight fine-tuning of…

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2026

One-step Optimal Transport via Regularized Distribution Matching Distillation

ICML 2026poster

Unpaired domain translation remains a challenging task due to the need of finding a balance between faithfulness and realism. In this paper, we propose a method called Regularized Distribution Matching Distillation (RDMD) that combines the best properties of Optimal Transport (OT) and diffusion-base…

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2026

Smoothie: Smoothing Diffusion on Token Embeddings for Text Generation

ICML 2026poster

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generating images, audio, and video, but their adaptation to text remains challenging due to its discrete nature. Prior approaches either apply Gaussian diffusion in continuous latent spaces, which inherits semantic structure but struggl…

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2025

Compressed and Smooth Latent Space for Text Diffusion Modeling

NeurIPS 2025poster

Autoregressive language models dominate modern text generation, yet their sequential nature introduces fundamental limitations: decoding is slow, and maintaining global coherence remains challenging. Diffusion models offer a promising alternative by enabling parallel generation and flexible control;…

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2025

Diffusion on Language Model Encodings for Protein Sequence Generation

ICML 2025poster

Protein *sequence* design has seen significant advances through discrete diffusion and autoregressive approaches, yet the potential of continuous diffusion remains underexplored. Here, we present *DiMA*, a latent diffusion framework that operates on protein language model representations. Through sy…

2025

TEncDM: Understanding the Properties of the Diffusion Model in the Space of Language Model Encodings

AAAI 2025technical

This paper presents the Text Encoding Diffusion Model (TEncDM), a novel approach to diffusion modeling that operates in the space of pre-trained language model encodings. In contrast to traditionally used embeddings, encodings integrate contextual information. In our approach, we also employ a trans…