Half-order Fine-Tuning for Diffusion Model: A Recursive Likelihood Ratio Optimizer

ICLROral2026

Authors
Tao Ren, Zishi Zhang, Jinyang Jiang, Zehao Li, Shentao Qin, Yi Zheng, Guanghao Li, Qianyou Sun, Yan Li, Jiafeng Liang, Xinping Li, Yijie Peng
Affiliation
Peking University
Venue
ICLR 2026
Track
Oral

TL;DR

The probabilistic diffusion model (DM), generating content by inferencing through a recursive chain structure, has emerged as a powerful framework for visual generation. After pre-training on enormous data, the model needs to be properly aligned to meet requirements for downstream applications.

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Topics

pre-training fine-tuning diffusion

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