% Key papers for Discrete diffusion solvers (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages.

@inproceedings{neurips2021_structured_62885,
  title = {{Structured Denoising Diffusion Models in Discrete State-Spaces}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/27623},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2023_analog_31997,
  title = {{Analog Bits: Generating Discrete Data using Diffusion Models with Self-Conditioning}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2023/poster/11907},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2023_protein_67866,
  title = {{Protein Design with Guided Discrete Diffusion}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/71899},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2024_simplified_74505,
  title = {{Simplified and Generalized Masked Diffusion for Discrete Data}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93071},
}

@inproceedings{icml2023_dirichlet_42176,
  title = {{Dirichlet Diffusion Score Model for Biological Sequence Generation}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2023/poster/23738},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_derivative_75291,
  title = {{Derivative-Free Guidance in Continuous and Discrete Diffusion Models with Soft Value-based Decoding}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=6QbbaEGkO7},
}

@inproceedings{icml2024_discrete_43766,
  title = {{Discrete Diffusion Modeling by Estimating the Ratios of the Data Distribution}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/34686},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2023_chirodiff_31942,
  title = {{ChiroDiff: Modelling chirographic data with Diffusion Models}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2023/poster/12201},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_constrained_76038,
  title = {{Constrained Discrete Diffusion}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Es4s9dtCjR},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2024_fast_71629,
  title = {{Fast Sampling via Discrete Non-Markov Diffusion Models with Predetermined Transition Time}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/95646},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2025_steering_81984,
  title = {{Steering Masked Discrete Diffusion Models via Discrete Denoising Posterior Prediction}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/29801},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2025_unlocking_82509,
  title = {{Unlocking Guidance for Discrete State-Space Diffusion and Flow Models}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/29286},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2022_autoregressive_31169,
  title = {{Autoregressive Diffusion Models}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2022/poster/6228},
}

@inproceedings{icml2023_blackout_42855,
  title = {{Blackout Diffusion: Generative Diffusion Models in Discrete-State Spaces}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2023/poster/23799},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2024_amortizing_73306,
  title = {{Amortizing intractable inference in diffusion models for vision, language, and control}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94137},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_remasking_76346,
  title = {{Remasking Discrete Diffusion Models with Inference-Time Scaling}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=IJryQAOy0p},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_learnable_78597,
  title = {{Learnable Sampler Distillation for Discrete Diffusion Models}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=gMHLQASj11},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2025_discrete_81437,
  title = {{Discrete Copula Diffusion}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/30336},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2025_think_81841,
  title = {{Think while You Generate: Discrete Diffusion with Planned Denoising}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/29942},
}

@inproceedings{icml2024_disco_45432,
  title = {{DisCo-Diff: Enhancing Continuous Diffusion Models with Discrete Latents}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33019},
}

@inproceedings{icml2025_sketchdnn_46537,
  title = {{SketchDNN: Joint Continuous-Discrete Diffusion for CAD Sketch Generation}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46031},
}

@inproceedings{icml2025_target_47741,
  title = {{Target Concrete Score Matching: A Holistic Framework for Discrete Diffusion}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/44859},
}

@inproceedings{icml2025_distillation_48300,
  title = {{Distillation of Discrete Diffusion through Dimensional Correlations}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/44314},
}

@inproceedings{icml2025_continuous_49052,
  title = {{Continuous Semi-Implicit Models}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/43572},
}

@inproceedings{icml2026_fine_49409,
  title = {{Fine-Tuning Masked Diffusion for Provable Self-Correction}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=2LRaNghfoM},
}

@inproceedings{icml2026_plug_51068,
  title = {{Plug-and-Play Guidance for Discrete Diffusion Models via Gradient-Informed Logit Correction}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=IXsOS3hF8Y},
}

@inproceedings{icml2026_discrete_53051,
  title = {{Discrete Diffusion Samplers and Bridges: Off-Policy Algorithms and Applications in Latent Spaces}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=bYg45bvuV9},
}