Control Flow Operators in PyTorch
Yidi Wu, Thomas Bohnstingl, et al.
ICML 2025
Diffusion Models (DMs) have recently set state-of-the-art on many generation benchmarks. However, there are myriad ways to describe them mathematically, which makes it difficult to develop a simple understanding of how they work. In this submission, we provide a concise overview of DMs from the perspective of dynamical systems and Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) which exposes a mathematical connection to the highly related yet often overlooked class of energy-based models, called Associative Memories (AMs). Energy-based AMs are a theoretical framework that behave much like denoising DMs, but they enable us to directly compute a Lyapunov energy function on which we can perform gradient descent to denoise data.
Yidi Wu, Thomas Bohnstingl, et al.
ICML 2025
Gosia Lazuka, Andreea Simona Anghel, et al.
SC 2024
Natalia Martinez Gil, Kanthi Sarpatwar, et al.
NeurIPS 2023
Robert Farrell, Rajarshi Das, et al.
AAAI-SS 2010