Sampling ideas

Diffusion step schedules, solvers, guidance and stopping rules that cut function evaluations or improve sample quality.

✓ Mechanism works 2026

Conditional-TC Reveal Scheduler

Replace confidence-only masked diffusion decoding with an adaptive scheduler that chooses batches whose unrevealed tokens have low conditional total correlation given the already revealed context. The scheduler should preserve large parallel batches when token predictions are conditionally independent, but split highly dependent tokens into separate rounds to reduce forward-KL error.

Useful7/10
Difficulty6/10
Novelty7/10
Paper: Conditional Total Correlation and the Serial Depth of Adaptive Parallel Sampling arXiv:2608.25505