Jacob Christopher - Publications

Conference Publications

Neuro-symbolic Generative Diffusion Models for Physically Grounded, Robust, and Safe Generation

Jacob K. Christopher, Michael Cardei, Jinhao Liang, Ferdinando Fioretto

NeuS 2025

ORAL
Simultaneous Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Projected Diffusion Models

Jinhao Liang, Jacob K. Christopher, Sven Koenig, Ferdinando Fioretto

ICML 2025

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Speculative Diffusion Decoding: Accelerating Language Generation through Diffusion

Jacob K. Christopher, Brian R. Bartoldson, Tal Ben-Nun, Michael Cardei, Bhavya Kailkhura, Ferdinando Fioretto

NAACL 2025

ORAL

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Constrained Synthesis with Projected Diffusion Models

Jacob K. Christopher, Stephen Baek, Ferdinando Fioretto

NeurIPS 2024

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Learning Joint Models of Prediction and Optimization

James Kotary, Vincenzo Di Vito Francesco, Jacob K. Christopher, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Ferdinando Fioretto

ECAI 2024

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Workshop Publications

Multi-Agent Path Finding in Continuous Spaces with Projected Diffusion Models

Jinhao Liang, Jacob K. Christopher, Sven Koenig, Ferdinando Fioretto

The 6th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Path Finding (AAAI 2025)

ORAL

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Physics-Aware Diffusion Models for Micro-structure Material Design

Jacob K. Christopher, Stephen Baek, Ferdinando Fioretto

AI for Accelerated Material Design Workshop (NeurIPS 2024)

ORAL

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Speculative Diffusion Decoding for Accelerated Language Generation

Jacob K. Christopher, Brian R. Bartoldson, Tal Ben-Nun, Michael Cardei, Bhavya Kailkhura, Ferdinando Fioretto

Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing Workshop (NeurIPS 2024)

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Constrained Synthesis with Projected Diffusion Models

Jacob K. Christopher, Stephen Baek, Ferdinando Fioretto

Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop (NeurIPS 2024)

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Preprints

Constrained Discrete Diffusion

Michael Cardei*, Jacob K. Christopher*, Thomas Hartvigsen, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura, Ferdinando Fioretto

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Training-Free Constrained Generation With Stable Diffusion Models

Stefano Zampini*, Jacob K. Christopher*, Luca Oneto, Tal Ben-Nun, Davide Anguita, Ferdinando Fioretto

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Analyzing and Enhancing the Backward-Pass Convergence of Unrolled Optimization

James Kotary, Jacob K. Christopher, My H. Dinh, Ferdinando Fioretto

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