James Thornton

12 papers · 2021–2025 · 4 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (14) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌍 Conference Polyglot (4) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (13) 🔥 Unstoppable (5) 💎 Century Club (12) ⚡ Prolific Year (5)

Conferences

ICML (6) NIPS (3) AISTATS (2) ICLR (1)

Top co-authors

Marco Cuturi (6) Michal Klein (4) Arnaud Doucet (3) Yu-Guan Hsieh (2) Eugene Ndiaye (2) Ruixiang ZHANG (2) Pierre Ablin (2) Shuangfei Zhai (2) Louis Béthune (2) Valentin De Bortoli (2)

Keywords

optimal transport (4) diffusion model (2) entropic regularization (2) variational inference (1) convex optimization (1) particle filtering (1) riemannian manifold (1) sinkhorn algorithm (1) state space model (1) gaussian mixture model (1) state-space model (1) entropy regularization (1) schrödinger bridge (1) score-based generation (1) transport map (1) geodesic flow (1) score-based generative modeling (1) coupling matrix (1) iterative proportional fitting (1) wasserstein distance (1)

Papers

Mechanisms of Projective Composition of Diffusion Models ICML 2025

Target Concrete Score Matching: A Holistic Framework for Discrete Diffusion ICML 2025

Composition and Control with Distilled Energy Diffusion Models and Sequential Monte Carlo AISTATS 2025

Simple ReFlow: Improved Techniques for Fast Flow Models ICLR 2025

Shielded Diffusion: Generating Novel and Diverse Images using Sparse Repellency ICML 2025

Contrasting Multiple Representations with the Multi-Marginal Matching Gap ICML 2024

Progressive Entropic Optimal Transport Solvers NIPS 2024

Careful with that Scalpel: Improving Gradient Surgery with an EMA ICML 2024

Rethinking Initialization of the Sinkhorn Algorithm AISTATS 2023

Riemannian Score-Based Generative Modelling NIPS 2022

Differentiable Particle Filtering via Entropy-Regularized Optimal Transport ICML 2021

Diffusion Schrödinger Bridge with Applications to Score-Based Generative Modeling NIPS 2021