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Kim Yong Tan
dblp:344/3366
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Generative modeling · 100% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Fast Direct: Query-Efficient Online Black-box Guidance for Diffusion-model Target Generation · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
guided diffusion |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Fast Direct: Query-Efficient Online Black-box Guidance for Diffusion-model Target Generation · ICLR 2025 |
Mathematical optimization
black-box optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Fast Direct: Query-Efficient Online Black-box Guidance for Diffusion-model Target Generation · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
online black-box guidance · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Fast Direct: Query-Efficient Online Black-box Guidance for Diffusion-model Target GenerationabstractGuided diffusion-model generation is a promising direction for customizing the generation process of a pre-trained diffusion model to address specific downstream tasks. Existing guided diffusion models either rely on training the guidance model with pre-collected datasets or require the objective functions to be differentiable. However, for most real-world tasks, offline datasets are often unavailable, and their objective functions are often not differentiable, such as image generation with human preferences, molecular generation for drug discovery, and material design. Thus, we need an **online** algorithm capable of collecting data during runtime and supporting a **black-box** objective function. Moreover, the **query efficiency** of the algorithm is also critical because the objective evaluation of the query is often expensive in real-world scenarios. In this work, we propose a novel and simple algorithm, **Fast Direct**, for query-efficient online black-box target generation. Our Fast Direct builds a pseudo-target on the data manifold to update the noise sequence of the diffusion model with a universal direction, which is promising to perform query-efficient guided generation. Extensive experiments on twelve high-resolution ($\small {1024 \times 1024}$) image target generation tasks and six 3D-molecule target generation tasks show $\textbf{6}\times$ up to $\textbf{10}\times$ query efficiency improvement and $\textbf{11}\times$ up to $\textbf{44}\times$ query efficiency improvement, respectively. Kim Yong Tan, Yueming Lyu, Ivor W. Tsang, Yew-Soon Ong |
ICLR | 1 |