Summary of Steering Masked Discrete Diffusion Models Via Discrete Denoising Posterior Prediction, by Jarrid Rector-brooks et al.
Steering Masked Discrete Diffusion Models via Discrete Denoising Posterior Prediction
by Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Mohsin Hasan, Zhangzhi Peng, Zachary Quinn, Chenghao Liu, Sarthak Mittal, Nouha Dziri, Michael Bronstein, Yoshua Bengio, Pranam Chatterjee, Alexander Tong, Avishek Joey Bose
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a novel framework called Discrete Denoising Posterior Prediction (DDPP) that enables steering Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) to satisfy specific properties or reward functions. This is achieved by casting the task as a problem of probabilistic inference, allowing for simulation-free and scalable learning. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of DDPP by instantiating it in various applications, including class-conditional image modeling, RLHF-based text alignment, and finetuning protein language models to generate more diverse proteins. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us create better AI systems that can control how they generate data. It’s like teaching a machine how to draw a specific picture, or write a certain story. The authors develop a new way to make this happen using something called Discrete Denoising Posterior Prediction (DDPP). They test it on different tasks and show that it works well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Diffusion » Inference » Rlhf
