Spectral Feedback for Test-Time Alignment of Protein Diffusion Models
Reward maximization alignment methods for discrete diffusion models have primarily focused on steering the reverse process, either by influencing token logits or by selecting favorable sequences at intermediate steps. These approaches largely treat inference as a unidirectional process, lacking mechanisms for revisiting undesirable token selections. We introduce Spectral Feedback, an algorithm that selects edit-positions in a feedback loop, allowing the model to iteratively correct its own generations. This approach leverages the mask structure of discrete diffusion models by re-masking and re-sampling tokens, analogous to image editing methods that reintroduce noisy latents and re-run th...
| Authors | Shai Dickman, Mert Cemri, Landon Butler et al. |
|---|---|
| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 24 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 24 September 2026 |
Silytics shows public metadata from arXiv and links to the original. Information may be incomplete or out of date. Last refreshed 17 October 2026. Licenses and terms of the original apply to the work itself. Not financial, legal or professional advice.