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arxiv: 2605.18745 · v1 · pith:YGQREDCWnew · submitted 2026-05-18 · 📊 stat.ML · cs.LG· cs.NA· math.NA· math.PR· q-fin.MF· stat.CO

SURGE: Approximation-free Training Free Particle Filter for Diffusion Surrogate

Lifu Wei , Yinuo Ren , Naichen Shi , Yiping Lu This is my paper

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URGE performs unbiased path-wise resampling for diffusion guidance by attaching Girsanov multiplicative weights to trajectories and resampling periodically without any score or gradient evaluations.

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The paper introduces URGE as a derivative-free method that improves sample quality in diffusion generative models at inference time by using a Girsanov change of measure to reweight entire simulated trajectories. Instead of computing gradients or scores for particle weights as in prior work, it attaches a simple multiplicative factor to each path and resamples at intervals. The authors prove an equivalence showing that the path weight admits a backward conditional expectation recovering the exact particle-level weights from sequential Monte Carlo. This guarantees both schemes produce the same unbiased terminal law. Readers would care because the approach eliminates repeated derivative computations while preserving theoretical unbiasedness and delivering better empirical results on benchmarks.

Core claim

The central claim is that path-wise importance reweighting via the Girsanov change of measure is equivalent to particle-wise sequential Monte Carlo for diffusion processes: the Girsanov path weight admits a backward conditional expectation that recovers the previous particle-level weights exactly, so that both schemes produce the same unbiased terminal law. This equivalence underpins URGE, which requires no score, Hessian, or PDE evaluation and is implemented by attaching multiplicative weights to trajectories followed by periodic resampling.

What carries the argument

The Girsanov path weight under a change of measure on diffusion trajectories, which supplies multiplicative importance weights that admit a backward conditional expectation recovering particle weights.

If this is right

  • URGE produces the same unbiased terminal distribution as gradient-based particle filters while requiring only trajectory simulation and simple multiplicative weighting.
  • No score, Hessian, or PDE solves are needed at inference time, removing the main sources of bias and overhead in prior guidance methods.
  • The method applies to any diffusion satisfying the regularity conditions and can be combined with mixture-of-experts or drift adjustments for task-specific objectives.
  • Empirical tests show improved generation quality over existing inference-time baselines on both synthetic tasks and standard diffusion-model benchmarks.

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

  • The equivalence may allow swapping path-wise and particle-wise implementations interchangeably in other stochastic sampling settings where Girsanov weights can be computed.
  • Because the method is fully gradient-free, it could be integrated into black-box simulators or non-differentiable forward models that still admit a Girsanov representation.
  • Extensions could explore whether approximate Girsanov weights (e.g., via learned estimators) preserve unbiasedness up to controllable error in high dimensions.

Load-bearing premise

The diffusion process and the Girsanov change of measure must satisfy regularity conditions such as the Novikov condition so that the path weights are well-defined and the backward conditional expectation recovers the particle weights exactly.

What would settle it

Running both URGE and a standard particle-wise SMC sampler on the same diffusion model and target objective, then checking whether their empirical terminal distributions differ in total variation or in any moment that the theory predicts must match.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.18745 by Lifu Wei, Naichen Shi, Yinuo Ren, Yiping Lu.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Many modern systems come with complemen [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Conceptual description of SURGE for Data As [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Performance comparison between baseline meth [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Performance comparison between baseline meth [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative comparison of vorticity field recon [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative and quantitative comparison of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: More trajectory wise comparison between baselines and SURGE on Lorenz system. The blue SURGE’s trajectory [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: More trajectory wise comparison between baselines and SURGE on Lorenz system. The blue SURGE’s trajectory [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Failure case analysis of the Lorenz system under partial observation. When the trajectory is initialized near [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Illustration of SURGE behavior under unstable and erroneous predictions from the diffusion surrogate, and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: More trajectory wise comparison between baselines and SURGE on Navier-stokes flow in terms of Energy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: More trajectory wise comparison between baselines and SURGE on Navier-stokes flow in terms of Energy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Impact of Ensemble Averaging. Individual particles (left) exhibit high stochastic variance, whereas the ensemble [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: More trajectory wise comparison between baselines and SURGE on weather forecasting in terms of VIL [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: More trajectory wise comparison between baselines and SURGE on weather forecasting in terms of VIL [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: More trajectory wise comparison between baselines and SURGE on weather forecasting in terms of VIL [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: More trajectory wise comparison between baselines and SURGE on weather forecasting in terms of VIL [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Ablation of the guidance term. Without guidance (right), the trajectory fails to correct drift and degrades to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Ablation of the reward term. Without reward (right), the trajectory fails to correct drift and degrades to the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Ablation of SURGE weight computing and resampling. The trajectory is same as FlowDAS predicted. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_20.png] view at source ↗
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Diffusion-based generative models increasingly rely on inference-time guidance, adding a drift term or reweighting mixture of experts, to improve sample quality on task-specific objectives. However, most existing techniques require repeated score or gradient evaluations, introducing bias, high computational overhead, or both. We introduce \texttt{URGE}, Unbiased Resampling via Girsanov Estimation, a derivative-free inference-time scaling algorithm that performs path-wise importance reweighting via a Girsanov change of measure. Instead of computing gradient-based particle weights in previous work, \texttt{URGE} attaches a simple multiplicative weight to each simulated trajectory and periodically resamples. No score, no Hessian, and no PDE evaluation is required. We establish an equivalence between path-wise and particle-wise SMC: the Girsanov path weight admits a backward conditional expectation that recovers the previous particle-level weights, guaranteeing that both schemes produce the same unbiased terminal law. Empirically, \texttt{URGE} outperforms existing inference-time guidance baselines on synthetic tests and diffusion-model benchmarks, achieving better generation quality, while being significantly simpler to implement and fully gradient-free.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces SURGE (also referred to as URGE), an approximation-free, training-free particle filter for diffusion surrogates. It performs path-wise importance reweighting via a Girsanov change of measure, attaching multiplicative weights to simulated trajectories and resampling periodically without any score, gradient, or PDE evaluations. The central claim is an equivalence between path-wise and particle-wise SMC: the Girsanov path weight admits a backward conditional expectation that recovers the previous particle-level weights, guaranteeing both schemes produce the same unbiased terminal law. Empirical results show outperformance over existing inference-time guidance baselines on synthetic tests and diffusion-model benchmarks.

Significance. If the equivalence holds, the work provides a simple gradient-free alternative for inference-time scaling in diffusion models, eliminating bias and overhead from repeated score evaluations. The derivation from established stochastic calculus and the empirical gains are strengths that could influence practical generative modeling pipelines.

major comments (1)
  1. [Theoretical equivalence derivation (continuous-time Girsanov application)] The equivalence between Girsanov path weights and particle-wise SMC weights is derived in the continuous-time semimartingale setting. Diffusion sampling uses discrete-time schemes (Euler–Maruyama or similar) with finite steps; the manuscript does not show that the discrete Radon–Nikodym derivative equals the backward conditional expectation of the continuous Girsanov exponential or bound the resulting O(Δt) discrepancy. This is load-bearing for the exact unbiasedness and approximation-free claims.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Title and abstract] Title uses SURGE while abstract introduces URGE; ensure acronym consistency and expand it on first use.
  2. [Abstract and introduction] Hyphenate 'Training Free' as 'training-free' and check for similar compound-adjective issues throughout.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading and constructive feedback. Below we address the single major comment point by point, with a commitment to strengthen the presentation of the discrete-time case.

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  1. Referee: [Theoretical equivalence derivation (continuous-time Girsanov application)] The equivalence between Girsanov path weights and particle-wise SMC weights is derived in the continuous-time semimartingale setting. Diffusion sampling uses discrete-time schemes (Euler–Maruyama or similar) with finite steps; the manuscript does not show that the discrete Radon–Nikodym derivative equals the backward conditional expectation of the continuous Girsanov exponential or bound the resulting O(Δt) discrepancy. This is load-bearing for the exact unbiasedness and approximation-free claims.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee identifying this important clarification. The continuous-time derivation is presented to exploit standard results from stochastic calculus and to make the connection to Girsanov’s theorem transparent. In the discrete-time setting actually used for sampling, the path-wise weight is exactly the product, over Euler–Maruyama steps, of the Radon–Nikodym derivatives between the two Gaussian transition kernels. This product is the natural discrete counterpart of the continuous Girsanov exponential. By the tower property of conditional expectation, the backward conditional expectation of these discrete weights recovers the particle-wise weights exactly (no additional approximation). The only O(Δt) discrepancy appears when one compares the discrete weights to their continuous-time limit; however, because the underlying diffusion sampler itself is already an O(Δt) approximation, the terminal measure produced by URGE remains unbiased relative to the discrete particle filter that would be obtained by direct particle-wise reweighting. We will add a short subsection (or appendix paragraph) that (i) states the discrete Radon–Nikodym form explicitly, (ii) verifies the tower-property equivalence in discrete time, and (iii) notes that any remaining discretization error is of the same order as the numerical scheme already employed by all competing methods. This revision will be included in the next manuscript version. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: equivalence derived from external Girsanov theorem and conditional expectation identity

full rationale

The paper's central derivation establishes an equivalence between path-wise Girsanov reweighting and particle-wise SMC by invoking the standard Girsanov change of measure and a backward conditional expectation that recovers prior particle weights. This step relies on established stochastic calculus results (Girsanov theorem under Novikov-type regularity) rather than any self-definitional loop, fitted parameter renamed as prediction, or load-bearing self-citation. No equations reduce the claimed unbiased terminal law to the paper's own inputs by construction; the argument is self-contained against external mathematical benchmarks and does not smuggle ansatzes or rename known empirical patterns.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The method rests on the applicability of Girsanov's theorem to the diffusion paths and the existence of the backward conditional expectation that equates path and particle weights. No free parameters or new entities are introduced in the abstract description.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption The underlying stochastic differential equation satisfies the regularity conditions required for Girsanov's theorem to define a valid change of measure.
    This is needed for the path weights to be well-defined and for the equivalence to hold.

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