James Thornton
12 papers · 2021–2025 · 4 venues · across top CS/AI venues
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Research topics
Deep Learning
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Machine Learning
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Models
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Optimization & Theory
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Mathematics & Optimization
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Optimization
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Learning Types · Deep Learning
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Artificial Intelligence
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Bayesian & Probabilistic · Machine Learning
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Computer Vision
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Bayesian & Probabilistic · Artificial Intelligence
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Core AI
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Core Methods
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Generation
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Learning Types · Machine Learning
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Keywords
diffusion model
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optimal transport
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entropic regularization
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sinkhorn algorithm
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particle filtering
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reward function
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manifold learning
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orthogonal projection
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convex optimization
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flow matching
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pretraining
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sequential monte carlo
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model distillation
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riemannian manifold
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self-supervised learning
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variational inference
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generative model
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state space model
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gaussian mixture model
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statistical consistency
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Papers
Composition and Control with Distilled Energy Diffusion Models and Sequential Monte Carlo
AISTATS 2025
Mechanisms of Projective Composition of Diffusion Models
ICML 2025
Shielded Diffusion: Generating Novel and Diverse Images using Sparse Repellency
ICML 2025
Simple ReFlow: Improved Techniques for Fast Flow Models
ICLR 2025
Target Concrete Score Matching: A Holistic Framework for Discrete Diffusion
ICML 2025
Careful with that Scalpel: Improving Gradient Surgery with an EMA
ICML 2024
Contrasting Multiple Representations with the Multi-Marginal Matching Gap
ICML 2024
Progressive Entropic Optimal Transport Solvers
NeurIPS 2024
Rethinking Initialization of the Sinkhorn Algorithm
AISTATS 2023
Riemannian Score-Based Generative Modelling
NeurIPS 2022
Differentiable Particle Filtering via Entropy-Regularized Optimal Transport
ICML 2021
Diffusion Schrödinger Bridge with Applications to Score-Based Generative Modeling
NeurIPS 2021