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Rethinking the Design Space of Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Models: On the Importance of Likelihood Estimation Beyond Loss Design

ICML 2026 · Reinforcement learning › Policy gradient and actor-critic · approach: Policy gradients for special settings · 0 citations (OpenAlex)

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