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arxiv: 2602.01338 · v2 · submitted 2026-02-01 · 💻 cs.LG · math.ST· stat.ML· stat.TH

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High-accuracy sampling for diffusion models and log-concave distributions

Alexander Rakhlin, Constantinos Daskalakis, Fan Chen, Sinho Chewi

classification 💻 cs.LG math.STstat.MLstat.TH
keywords deltamathrmpolylogcomplexitywidetildedatadiffusiondistributions
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We present algorithms for diffusion model sampling which obtain $\delta$-error in $\mathrm{polylog}(1/\delta)$ steps, given access to $\widetilde O(\delta)$-accurate score estimates in $L^2$. This is an exponential improvement over all previous results. Specifically, under minimal data assumptions, the complexity is $\widetilde O(d_\star \mathrm{polylog}(1/\delta))$ where $d_\star$ is the intrinsic dimension of the data. Further, under a non-uniform $L$-Lipschitz condition, the complexity reduces to $\widetilde O(L \mathrm{polylog}(1/\delta))$. Our approach also yields the first $\mathrm{polylog}(1/\delta)$ complexity sampler for general log-concave distributions using only gradient evaluations.

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