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DiScoFormer: One transformer for density and score, across distributions

Many problems in machine learning and the sciences come down to the same task: you have a collection of data points and want to recover the distribution they came from—which values are common, and which are rare. Pinning down that distribution means estimating two quantities: the distribution's density and, more useful as dimensionality grows, its score. The density is the smooth version of a histogram—high where points cluster and low where they're scarce. The score—the gradient of the log-density—points in the direction the density rises fastest: move a point along the score and it heads toward a more probable region. Diffusion-based generative models (the technology behind AI image generators like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E) start from random noise and repeatedly follow the score, turning that noise into a realistic image. The same score drives Bayesian sampling and the particle simulations used to model systems such as plasma. …

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29 Jun 2026 18:02 UTC