ICML 2026

Simple Approximation and Derivative Free Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models via Sequential Monte Carlo on Path Measures

Chenyang Wang*, Weizhong Wang*, Yinuo Ren, Jose Blanchet, Yiping Lu

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URGE attaches a Girsanov path weight to every simulated trajectory and periodically resamples: gradient-free inference-time scaling with no score, Hessian or PDE evaluations, and the same terminal law as particle-wise SMC.

* Equal contribution