Discrete Diffusion Models are Minimax Optimal Under Sparsity

arXiv:2610.19020 · stat.ML, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-13 · Read on arXiv

stat.ML, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-13

Updated: 2026-10-13

Terminology

• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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