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Apple Research Uncovers Confidence Limits in Diffusion Models

Apple Machine Learning Research has published a paper detailing the limitations of confidence in diffusion models, particularly concerning token dependencies. The research highlights that current methods often fail to account for inherent dependencies between tokens, leading to inaccuracies. The paper also explores the effectiveness and drawbacks of on-policy distillation for training reasoning models and investigates position prediction as a pre-training strategy for transformers. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential inaccuracies in current diffusion models due to token dependencies, suggesting areas for future research in generative AI.

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  1. Apple Machine Learning Research TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Limits of Confidence in Diffusion

    Discrete diffusion, including remasking and uniform-state samplers, generate a sequence by writing multiple token positions per step, drawing each from a per-position distribution and choosing which positions to write from those same distributions. For domains of general interest…