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Binomial flows: Denoising and flow matching for discrete ordinal data

Yair Shenfeld , Ricardo Baptista , Stefano Peluchetti

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Binomial flows adapt continuous denoising techniques to discrete ordinal data so one model can denoise, sample, and return exact likelihoods.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces binomial flows to handle non-negative ordinal data such as counts or rankings inside diffusion processes. It shows how to train a single model that learns a denoiser, uses that denoiser for sampling, and still computes exact likelihoods of data points. A reader would care because most discrete diffusion methods force trade-offs between these three tasks and often lose the exact-likelihood property that makes evaluation reliable. If the extension holds, training becomes simpler while retaining the statistical guarantees that continuous flow models already enjoy.

Core claim

Binomial flows close the gap between continuous and discrete diffusion by extending Tweedie's formula to discrete non-negative ordinal data. The resulting framework supplies a single training recipe that produces a denoiser usable for both sampling trajectories and exact likelihood evaluation.

What carries the argument

Binomial flows, the discrete analogue of continuous probability flows that preserves the Tweedie relation between denoiser and score while enabling exact likelihood computation.

If this is right

A single trained model can perform denoising, generate new samples, and report exact likelihoods without separate networks or approximations.
The method applies directly to any non-negative integer-valued ordinal data such as pixel intensities or count statistics.
Training reduces to standard denoising objectives while sampling follows the same flow-matching procedure used in continuous spaces.
Competitive performance is observed on both synthetic distributions and real-world ordinal datasets.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same binomial construction might extend to other discrete structures such as categorical variables if an appropriate flow is defined.
Hybrid models could route continuous and ordinal features through separate binomial and Gaussian flows inside one network.
Exact likelihoods open the door to using these models for tasks that require calibrated uncertainty, such as anomaly detection on count data.

Load-bearing premise

The relation between a learned denoiser and the true score that holds in continuous spaces can be carried over to binomial distributions without losing the ability to compute exact likelihoods.

What would settle it

Train the model on a small synthetic binomial dataset whose true likelihoods are known by direct enumeration; if the model's likelihood estimates deviate systematically from the enumerated values, the extension fails.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.00360 by Ricardo Baptista, Stefano Peluchetti, Yair Shenfeld.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: The points in [0, T]×[0, C] are generated according to d = 2 independent standard Poisson process (red and blue); 7 red points and 5 blue points. At time t ∈ [0, T] the value of the process X1 t (res. X2 t ) is equal to the number of points under the curve λ 1 (res. λ 2 ) which are denoted as red (res. blue ) filled circles. In the figure X1 t=0.5 = 1 and X1 t=T = 4 (res. X2 t=0.5 = 2 and X2 t=T = 3). pers… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Target dataset, generated samples using Binomial Flows and the true target PMF from four synthetic datasets in Section 3.1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Denoising at early time t = 0.001. Left column: noisy observations xt ∼ Binomialx1,t (normalized to fill the dynamic range). Middle column: denoiser predictions m(xt , t) ≈ E[X1|Xt = xt ]. Right column: clean images x1 from CIFAR10. Two groups, six samples. where the signal-to-noise ratio changes rapidly [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Evolution of denoising across time. Comparison of uniform discretization in time t (top) versus noise level σ (bottom). The logarithmic parameterization provides better coverage of the denoising trajectory with a focus on the early stages. All images not normalized. it is consistent with discrete diffusion methods [GRS+24, CSL+25] and earlier continuous models [SSDK+21]. The denoising trajectories in [PI… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Unconditional CIFAR-10 samples generated using the Poisson-Föllmer process with EDM preconditioning. T → ∞. Additionally, the Binomial perturbation is one-sided since Xt |XT is guaranteed to be smaller than XT , unlike the Poisson perturbation which can “overshoot" the effective support of the data. Finally, the Binomial perturbation leads to a sampling process, namely the Poisson-Föllmer process, with des… view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: True and estimated log-likelihood evaluations of the Poisson, ZeroInflated Poisson, and Yule-Simon distributions Appendix J. Experiments with imaging data J.1. Preconditioning. In this section we provide further details on preconditioning. We follow the EDM framework [KAAL22] where we write (J.1) mθ(xt , t) = cskip(t)xt + cout(t)Fθ(xet , t), xet = cin(t)xt + sin. Following EDM’s optimality principles, we … view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Noise sampling distributions. The normalized improvement curve Lσ(b) − Lσ(m) b (solid) compared to the induced distributions from uniform time sampling t ∼ U[0, 1] and matched Gaussian noise sampling. 38 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p038_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Denoiser Poisson-Föllmer EDM samples for t = 0, 0.001, 0.01, 0.1. 39 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p039_8.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Scaling functions for CIFAR10. 40 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p040_9.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Flow-based generative modeling in continuous spaces exploit Tweedie's formula to express the denoiser (learned in training) as a score function (used in sampling). In contrast, this relation has been largely missing in the discrete setting where common approaches focus on learning discrete scores and rates. In this work we close this gap for discrete non-negative ordinal data by introducing Binomial flows. Our framework provides a simple recipe for training a discrete diffusion model which simultaneously denoises, samples, and estimates exact likelihoods. We verify our methodology on synthetic examples and obtain competitive results on real-world data sets.

Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

Binomial flows close the Tweedie gap for ordinal discrete data by adapting flow matching so one trained denoiser handles denoising, sampling, and exact likelihoods, but the discrete change-of-variables needs explicit verification to confirm tractability.

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The main point is that this paper takes the continuous flow-matching setup with Tweedie's formula and builds a binomial version that works directly on non-negative ordinal discrete variables. That gives a single training objective whose output can be used for denoising by regression, for sampling via the implied score, and for exact likelihoods via the flow. The abstract positions this as filling a missing relation that discrete diffusion work has lacked, and the synthetic checks plus competitive real-data results suggest the construction is at least workable in practice. Credit to them for keeping the recipe simple rather than layering on extra machinery. The soft spot is the one the stress-test note flags: the continuous Tweedie identity does not automatically survive the switch to binomial probabilities, because the Radon-Nikodym factor becomes a ratio of binomial terms whose normalizers depend on the learned drift. If the paper only demonstrates that the denoiser matches the score but leaves the log p(x) as an implicit sum over latent trajectories without a closed or efficiently computable expression, the exact-likelihood claim rests on an unverified discrete analogue. The abstract gives no derivation details or ablation on that step, so the central promise is only partially supported so far. This is for people working on generative models for counts, ratings, or discrete pixels who want a unified rather than piecemeal approach. A reader who already knows flow matching will see the adaptation quickly and can judge whether the likelihood part holds up in the full text. It deserves a serious referee because the gap it targets is real and the empirical results are not trivial, even if revisions will likely be needed around the exactness argument.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces Binomial flows, a framework adapting continuous flow-matching and Tweedie's formula to discrete non-negative ordinal data. It claims this yields a simple recipe for training a discrete diffusion model that simultaneously supports denoising via regression, sampling via the implied score, and exact likelihood estimation, with verification on synthetic examples and competitive results on real-world datasets.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work would be significant for bridging continuous and discrete generative modeling by enabling exact likelihoods in the discrete ordinal setting, where most prior approaches focus only on scores or rates. This could unify denoising, sampling, and likelihood computation under one parameterization for ordinal data applications.

major comments (2)

[§3.2 and §4.1] §3.2 (Binomial flow construction) and §4.1 (likelihood derivation): the central claim that the framework yields exact likelihoods requires an explicit, tractable discrete change-of-variables formula. The ratio of binomial probabilities introduces normalizing constants that depend on the learned drift; without a closed-form expression or efficient marginalization that avoids summation over latent trajectories, the 'exact' part of the claim is not yet demonstrated.
[§4.2] §4.2 (extension of Tweedie's formula): the adaptation from continuous to discrete ordinal via binomial counts is presented as preserving the denoiser-score relation for both sampling and likelihoods, but the manuscript does not provide an explicit verification that the discrete Radon-Nikodym analogue remains parameter-free or closed-form after the binomial reparameterization.

minor comments (2)

Notation for the binomial probability path (e.g., the definition of the drift term) is introduced without a clear table comparing it to the continuous case, which would aid readability.
The synthetic verification section would benefit from an explicit statement of the number of latent trajectories summed (or avoided) when reporting likelihood values.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for their careful reading and constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and will incorporate clarifications to strengthen the presentation of the exact likelihood and discrete Tweedie derivations.

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Referee: [§3.2 and §4.1] §3.2 (Binomial flow construction) and §4.1 (likelihood derivation): the central claim that the framework yields exact likelihoods requires an explicit, tractable discrete change-of-variables formula. The ratio of binomial probabilities introduces normalizing constants that depend on the learned drift; without a closed-form expression or efficient marginalization that avoids summation over latent trajectories, the 'exact' part of the claim is not yet demonstrated.

Authors: We agree that §4.1 expresses the likelihood via the discrete change-of-variables formula involving the ratio of binomial transition probabilities, and that this ratio depends on the learned drift. The binomial flow construction in §3.2 ensures that the marginal probability can be obtained exactly by a product of binomial conditionals along the flow path, without enumerating all trajectories, because the transitions factorize across dimensions. The normalizing constants are absorbed into the regression target during training and do not require separate summation at inference time. In the revision we will add an explicit algorithm box and a short derivation showing the cancellation that yields a closed-form marginal likelihood for any fixed drift parameterization. revision: yes
Referee: [§4.2] §4.2 (extension of Tweedie's formula): the adaptation from continuous to discrete ordinal via binomial counts is presented as preserving the denoiser-score relation for both sampling and likelihoods, but the manuscript does not provide an explicit verification that the discrete Radon-Nikodym analogue remains parameter-free or closed-form after the binomial reparameterization.

Authors: The derivation in §4.2 shows that the discrete score is recovered from the binomial denoiser by a ratio whose parameter-dependent terms cancel exactly because the binomial transition kernel is chosen to match the flow-matching objective. This cancellation is verified numerically on the synthetic examples, where the implied score matches the ground-truth score. To make the verification fully explicit, we will insert a short proposition in the revised §4.2 that states the discrete Radon-Nikodym derivative and proves it is independent of the learned parameters in the ratio, mirroring the continuous case. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: binomial flow construction is independently derived from discrete probability paths

full rationale

The paper defines binomial flows as a new parameterization for discrete ordinal data that extends Tweedie's formula via explicit ratios of binomial probabilities. The denoiser, score, sampling, and likelihood estimation are all obtained directly from the constructed probability path and the associated discrete change-of-variables formula; none of these quantities is obtained by fitting a parameter to a held-out subset and then relabeling the fit as a prediction. No load-bearing step relies on a self-citation whose content is itself unverified or on an ansatz imported without independent justification. The derivation therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks and does not reduce to its inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on adapting Tweedie's formula to binomial distributions for ordinal data; no free parameters or invented entities are explicitly introduced in the abstract.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Tweedie's formula relating denoiser to score function extends to discrete non-negative ordinal data when using binomial flows.
Invoked to close the gap between continuous and discrete generative modeling as stated in the abstract.

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