First-Order Stationarity of Reverse Diffusions

arXiv:2609.31612 · stat.ML, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

stat.ML, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Terminology

• Diffusion Model — 10× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 9× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Consistency — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Modeling — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gradient Flow — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Langevin Dynamics — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Generative Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In International Conference on Learning Representations — 2× in this paper
• Score Function — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fisher Information — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Wasserstein Distance — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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• Optimal Convergence Analysis of DDPM for General Distributions
• A Good Score Does not Lead to A Good Generative Model

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