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Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models

Researchers have established a mathematical link between decision trees and diffusion models, revealing a shared optimization principle called Global Trajectory Score Matching (GTSM). This unification led to the development of \treeflow, which generates tabular data with improved fidelity and a 2x speedup. Additionally, a distillation method called \dsmtree transfers decision tree logic into neural networks, achieving comparable performance to teacher models. AI

IMPACT Unifies decision trees and diffusion models, potentially leading to more efficient and accurate generative models for tabular data.

RANK_REASON Academic paper introducing a novel unification of two model classes and practical instantiations.

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Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Sai Niranjan Ramachandran, Suvrit Sra ·

    Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models

    arXiv:2605.00414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decision trees and diffusion models are ostensibly disparate model classes, one discrete and hierarchical, the other continuous and dynamic. This work unifies the two by establishing a crisp mathematical correspondence between hiera…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Suvrit Sra ·

    Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models

    Decision trees and diffusion models are ostensibly disparate model classes, one discrete and hierarchical, the other continuous and dynamic. This work unifies the two by establishing a crisp mathematical correspondence between hierarchical decision trees and diffusion processes i…