Risk-Averse Inference-Time Diffusion Model Alignment with Finite-Sample Guarantees

arXiv:2610.17579 · stat.ML, cs.LG, math.OC · Submitted 2026-10-13 · Read on arXiv

stat.ML, cs.LG, math.OC

Submitted: 2026-10-13

Updated: 2026-10-13

Terminology

• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes

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