Specificity-Aware Diffusion Steering via Variance-Reduced Sequential Monte Carlo

arXiv:2610.00395 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/WangLuran/Specificity-Aware-Diffusion-Steering

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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