ML: Diffusion

Machine-learning ideas tagged Diffusion in the ML taxonomy of the Math2NN corpus.

✗ Mechanism failed 2026

Pointwise complexity-gated inference

Use a local chaining complexity computed from an empirical input metric to predict stochastic output error for each individual input. Easy, locally concentrated inputs can use fewer dropout, ensemble, or diffusion samples, while high-complexity inputs receive additional computation; unlike a global confidence threshold, the allocation varies with the input.

Useful7/10
Difficulty5/10
Novelty6/10
Paper: Pointwise Majorization for sub-Weibull and Mixed Tail Processes with Applications in Quadratic Chaos and Ergodic Diffusions arXiv:2609.01576