Publications

2026

1. arXiv

   One-Step Generative Modeling via Unbalanced Optimal Transport

   Yirong Shen, Mengfei Xia, Junpeng Jing, and 2 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.32708, Sep 2026

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   @article{shen2026onestep,
     title = {{One-Step Generative Modeling via Unbalanced Optimal Transport}},
     author = {Shen, Yirong and Xia, Mengfei and Jing, Junpeng and Gan, Lu and Ling, Cong},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.32708},
     year = {2026},
     month = sep,
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.IT},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32708},
   }

2. ICML

   Rényi Diffusion Models

   Yirong Shen, Lu Gan, and Cong Ling

   In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Jul 2026

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   @inproceedings{shen2026renyi,
     title = {{R{\'e}nyi Diffusion Models}},
     author = {Shen, Yirong and Gan, Lu and Ling, Cong},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning},
     pages = {110870--110911},
     year = {2026},
     month = jul,
     volume = {306},
     series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
     publisher = {PMLR},
     url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v306/shen26g.html},
   }

3. ISIT

   Smoothing Linear Codes by Rényi Divergence and Applications to Security Reduction

   Hao Yan, Yirong Shen, and Cong Ling

   In 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Jun 2026

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   @inproceedings{yan2026smoothing,
     title = {{Smoothing Linear Codes by R{\'e}nyi Divergence and Applications to Security Reduction}},
     author = {Yan, Hao and Shen, Yirong and Ling, Cong},
     booktitle = {2026 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)},
     pages = {1--6},
     year = {2026},
     month = jun,
     publisher = {IEEE},
     doi = {10.1109/ISIT62367.2026.11653870},
     url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11653870},
   }

2025

1. NeurIPS

   Information Theoretic Learning for Diffusion Models with Warm Start

   Yirong Shen, Lu Gan, and Cong Ling

   In The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec 2025

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   @inproceedings{shen2025information,
     title = {{Information Theoretic Learning for Diffusion Models with Warm Start}},
     author = {Shen, Yirong and Gan, Lu and Ling, Cong},
     booktitle = {The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
     year = {2025},
     month = dec,
     url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=3IbKbmNci3},
   }

2. ISIT

   Generalized Score Matching: Bridging f-Divergence and Statistical Estimation Under Correlated Noise

   Yirong Shen, Lu Gan, and Cong Ling

   In 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Jun 2025

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   @inproceedings{shen2025generalized,
     title = {{Generalized Score Matching: Bridging $f$-Divergence and Statistical Estimation Under Correlated Noise}},
     author = {Shen, Yirong and Gan, Lu and Ling, Cong},
     booktitle = {2025 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)},
     pages = {1--6},
     year = {2025},
     month = jun,
     organization = {IEEE},
     url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11195353},
   }