Hierarchical Variational Policies for Reward-Guided Diffusion.

Kushagra Pandey

Kushagra Pandey Farrin Marouf Sofian Jan Niklas Groeneveld Felix Draxler Stephan Mandt Hierarchical Variational Policies for Reward-Guided Diffusion. 2026 May abs/2605.21661 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.21661 db/journals/corr/corr2605.html#abs-2605-21661 streams/journals/corr

Laura Manduchi Clara Meister Kushagra Pandey Robert Bamler Ryan Cotterell Sina Däubener Sophie Fellenz Asja Fischer Thomas Gärtner 0004 Matthias Kirchler Marius Kloft Yingzhen Li Christoph Lippert Gerard de Melo Eric T. Nalisnick Björn Ommer Rajesh Ranganath Maja Rudolph Karen Ullrich Guy Van den Broeck Julia E. Vogt Yixin Wang Florian Wenzel Frank Wood Stephan Mandt Vincent Fortuin On the Challenges and Opportunities in Generative AI. 2025 2025 Trans. Mach. Learn. Res. https://openreview.net/forum?id=NeS9Kj2JwF db/journals/tmlr/tmlr2025.html#ManduchiMPBCDFFGKKLLMNO25 streams/journals/tmlr

Kushagra Pandey Jaideep Pathak Yilun Xu Stephan Mandt Michael S. Pritchard Arash Vahdat Morteza Mardani Heavy-Tailed Diffusion Models. 2025 ICLR https://openreview.net/forum?id=tozlOEN4qp conf/iclr/2025 db/conf/iclr/iclr2025.html#PandeyPXMPVM25 Kushagra Pandey Farrin Marouf Sofian Felix Draxler Theofanis Karaletsos Stephan Mandt Variational Control for Guidance in Diffusion Models. 2025 ICML https://proceedings.mlr.press/v267/pandey25a.html https://openreview.net/forum?id=Z0ffRRtOim conf/icml/2025 db/conf/icml/icml2025.html#PandeySDKM25

Kushagra Pandey Farrin Marouf Sofian Felix Draxler Theofanis Karaletsos Stephan Mandt Variational Control for Guidance in Diffusion Models. 2025 February abs/2502.03686 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.03686 db/journals/corr/corr2502.html#abs-2502-03686 streams/journals/corr

Prakhar Srivastava 0003 Farrin Marouf Sofian Francesco Immorlano Kushagra Pandey Stephan Mandt Control-Augmented Autoregressive Diffusion for Data Assimilation. 2025 October abs/2510.06637 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.06637 db/journals/corr/corr2510.html#abs-2510-06637 streams/journals/corr

Kushagra Pandey Maja Rudolph Stephan Mandt Efficient Integrators for Diffusion Generative Models. 2024 ICLR https://openreview.net/forum?id=qA4foxO5Gf conf/iclr/2024 db/conf/iclr/iclr2024.html#PandeyRM24 Kushagra Pandey Ruihan Yang Stephan Mandt Fast samplers for Inverse Problems in Iterative Refinement models. 2024 NeurIPS http://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/hash/2f46ef5725a8eca24f7f24a17955ad1a-Abstract-Conference.html conf/nips/2024 db/conf/nips/neurips2024.html#PandeyYM24

Kushagra Pandey Maja Rudolph Stephan Mandt Towards Fast Stochastic Sampling in Diffusion Generative Models. 2024 abs/2402.07211 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.07211 db/journals/corr/corr2402.html#abs-2402-07211

Laura Manduchi Kushagra Pandey Robert Bamler Ryan Cotterell Sina Däubener Sophie Fellenz Asja Fischer Thomas Gärtner 0004 Matthias Kirchler Marius Kloft Yingzhen Li Christoph Lippert Gerard de Melo Eric T. Nalisnick Björn Ommer Rajesh Ranganath Maja Rudolph Karen Ullrich Guy Van den Broeck Julia E. Vogt Yixin Wang Florian Wenzel Frank Wood Stephan Mandt Vincent Fortuin On the Challenges and Opportunities in Generative AI. 2024 abs/2403.00025 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.00025 db/journals/corr/corr2403.html#abs-2403-00025

Kushagra Pandey Ruihan Yang Stephan Mandt Fast Samplers for Inverse Problems in Iterative Refinement Models. 2024 abs/2405.17673 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.17673 db/journals/corr/corr2405.html#abs-2405-17673

Kushagra Pandey Jaideep Pathak Yilun Xu Stephan Mandt Michael S. Pritchard Arash Vahdat Morteza Mardani Heavy-Tailed Diffusion Models. 2024 abs/2410.14171 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.14171 db/journals/corr/corr2410.html#abs-2410-14171 streams/journals/corr

Kushagra Pandey Stephan Mandt A Complete Recipe for Diffusion Generative Models. 4238-4249 2023 ICCV https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV51070.2023.00393 conf/iccv/2023 db/conf/iccv/iccv2023.html#PandeyM23

Kushagra Pandey Stephan Mandt Generative Diffusions in Augmented Spaces: A Complete Recipe. 2023 abs/2303.01748 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.01748 db/journals/corr/corr2303.html#abs-2303-01748

Kushagra Pandey Maja Rudolph Stephan Mandt Efficient Integrators for Diffusion Generative Models. 2023 abs/2310.07894 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.07894 db/journals/corr/corr2310.html#abs-2310-07894

Huy Pham Emile R. Shehada Shawna Stahlheber Kushagra Pandey Wayne B. Hayes No Cell Left behind: Automated, Stochastic, Physics-Based Tracking of Every Cell in a Dense, Growing Colony. 51 2022 15 Algorithms 2 https://doi.org/10.3390/a15020051 db/journals/algorithms/algorithms15.html#PhamSSPH22

Kushagra Pandey Avideep Mukherjee Piyush Rai Abhishek Kumar 0001 DiffuseVAE: Efficient, Controllable and High-Fidelity Generation from Low-Dimensional Latents. 2022 2022 Trans. Mach. Learn. Res. https://openreview.net/forum?id=ygoNPRiLxw db/journals/tmlr/tmlr2022.html#PandeyMRK22

Kushagra Pandey Avideep Mukherjee Piyush Rai Abhishek Kumar 0001 DiffuseVAE: Efficient, Controllable and High-Fidelity Generation from Low-Dimensional Latents. 2022 abs/2201.00308 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00308 db/journals/corr/corr2201.html#abs-2201-00308

Robert Bamler Guy Van den Broeck Ryan Cotterell Sina Däubener Felix Draxler Sophie Fellenz Asja Fischer Vincent Fortuin Thomas Gärtner 0004 Jan Niklas Groeneveld Wayne B. Hayes Francesco Immorlano Theofanis Karaletsos Matthias Kirchler Marius Kloft Abhishek Kumar 0001 Yingzhen Li Christoph Lippert Stephan Mandt Laura Manduchi Morteza Mardani Clara Meister Gerard de Melo Avideep Mukherjee Eric T. Nalisnick Björn Ommer Jaideep Pathak Huy Pham Michael S. Pritchard Piyush Rai Rajesh Ranganath Maja Rudolph Emile R. Shehada Farrin Marouf Sofian Prakhar Srivastava 0003 Shawna Stahlheber Karen Ullrich Arash Vahdat Julia E. Vogt Yixin Wang Florian Wenzel Frank D. WoodFrank Wood Yilun Xu Ruihan Yang