2025
Scalable Discrete Diffusion Samplers: Combinatorial Optimization and Statistical Physics
Sebastian Sanokowski, Wilhelm Franz Berghammer, Haoyu Peter Wang, Martin Ennemoser, Sepp Hochreiter, Sebastian Lehner
ICLR 2025poster
Learning to sample from complex unnormalized distributions over discrete domains emerged as a promising research direction with applications in statistical physics, variational inference, and combinatorial optimization. Recent work has demonstrated the potential of diffusion models in this domain. H…