AI RESEARCH
Symmetric Equilibrium Propagation for Thermodynamic Diffusion Training
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2604.23806v1 Announce Type: new The reverse process in score-based diffusion models is formally equivalent to overdamped Langevin dynamics in a time-dependent energy landscape. In our prior work we showed that a bilinearly-coupled analog substrate can physically realize this dynamics at a projected three-to-four orders of magnitude energy advantage over digital inference by replacing dense skip connections with low-rank inter-module couplings. Whether the \emph{