arxivstat.MLcs.LG2026-07-05
Tightening the Score Matching Gap for Diffusion Models
Benjamin Dupuis, Tyler Farghly, Maxime Haddouche, Alain Durmus, Umut Simsekli
Diffusion models (DMs) are a state-of-the-art generative method to approximately sample from an unknown distribution. Their training and evaluation primarily rely on an Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO), which relates the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence of model samples to the score m…