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Samson Gourevitch

PhD student at Ecole Polytechnique working on generative modeling, diffusion models, and discrete diffusion.
Samson Gourevitch

PhD student at École Polytechnique

I am a PhD student at École Polytechnique, advised by Professors Eric Moulines and Alain Durmus. My research focuses on generative modeling, mainly diffusion models, with a particular interest in discrete diffusion.

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Recent paper Categorical Reparameterization with Denoising Diffusion Models

ReDGE introduces a diffusion-based soft reparameterization method for categorical distributions, with applications to latent variable models and guided discrete diffusion.

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Recent note Doob’s h-transform and guided diffusion

An intuitive introduction to Doob’s h-transform and the way conditional Markov dynamics connect to guided diffusion models.

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