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Raphaël Urfin

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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

First Learn, Then Memorize: The Spectral Bias of Diffusion Models

Diffusion models trained on a finite dataset first learn to generate novel, high-quality samples and only much later collapse onto their training set. We identify the mechanism behind this separation of timescales and the object that probes it. The training dynamics of the score function are governed---exactly, and at...

Raphaël Urfin, Tony Bonnaire, Giulio Biroli et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Weighting Schedules Govern What and When Score-Based Generative Models Learn from Multimodal Data

Score-based generative models generate new samples by integrating a time-dependent drift that carries Gaussian noise onto the target distribution. In practice this drift is modeled by a neural network, trained on a loss integrated over time $t$ with a weighting schedule $w(t)$. Along the backward dynamics, and for mult...

J. Klinger, Raphaël Urfin, Giulio Biroli et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Double Descent and Malign Overfitting in Diffusion Models

Conventional wisdom in deep learning holds that overparameterization---having more parameters $p$ than training samples $n$---is benign: larger models generalize better and, even without regularization, interpolating models generalize well, the test error following a double-descent curve. One might expect the same beni...

Raphaël Urfin, Tony Bonnaire, Giulio Biroli et al. · 0 citations
Open access Aug 2026

Why diffusion models do not memorize: the role of implicit dynamical regularization in training

It is found that τmem increases linearly with the training set size n, whereas τgen remains constant, which creates a growing window of training times with n where models generalize effectively, despite showing strong memorization if training continues beyond it.

Tony Bonnaire, Raphaël Urfin, Giulio Biroli et al. · 2 citations

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