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Conditioning Degenerate Diffusion Models

Uğur Aydın

Abstract

Current conditioned generative models heavily rely on score functions for guidance during training. When the generative model is a diffusion process with a singular diffusion coefficient and the underlying (conditional) densities either do not exist or are not smooth, we use causal optimal transport to define \emph{approximate} loss functions that identify a minimum-entropy control for guidance under minimal assumptions. Our approach relies on causal optimal transport and its characterization th...

Submitted: September 4, 2026Subjects: Machine Learning; Data Science

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Current conditioned generative models heavily rely on score functions for guidance during training. When the generative model is a diffusion process with a singular diffusion coefficient and the underlying (conditional) densities either do not exist or are not smooth, we use causal optimal transport to define \emph{approximate} loss functions that identify a minimum-entropy control for guidance under minimal assumptions. Our approach relies on causal optimal transport and its characterization through the predictable representation property of (conditioned) diffusion processes whose associated martingale problem is well posed, à la Üstünel.


Source: arXiv:2609.04090v1 - http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04090v1 PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.04090v1 Original Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04090v1

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Sep 4, 2026
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Data Science
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Machine Learning
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