Transformer-Based Masked Diffusion Models Provably Learn Distributions with Latent Structure

arXiv:2610.12544 · cs.LG, cs.IT, math.IT, math.ST, stat.ML, stat.TH · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.IT, math.IT, math.ST, stat.ML, stat.TH

Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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