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2410.03108

A TRAINING-FREE CONDITIONAL DIFFUSION MODEL FOR LEARNING STOCHASTIC DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Yanfang Liu, Yuan Chen, Dongbin Xiu, Guannan Zhang

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Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM

Audit review

The paper clearly states and sketches all three claims: (A) the closed-form score expression via differentiating the Gaussian smoothing integral (Eq. (3.10)–(3.11)), (B) the reverse-time SDE ↔ reverse ODE marginal equivalence via the reverse Fokker–Planck identity (Eq. (3.21)–(3.23)), and (C) the Monte Carlo score estimator based on kernel localization around x with a convergence claim as ν→0 and M→∞ (referencing Eq. (3.18)–(3.19) in text and Algorithm 3.1) . However, the paper omits the technical hypotheses and proofs needed to make (B)–(C) rigorous and contains minor inaccuracies (e.g., stating ∇q = q∇ log q “holds for the exponential family,” though it actually holds whenever q is differentiable and positive). By contrast, the candidate solution supplies the needed conditions and a standard proof for (C) via LLN and kernel-consistency, and gives a careful PDE calculation for (B). Hence, while the paper’s statements are directionally correct, its theory write-up is incomplete; the model’s solution is correct under explicit, standard assumptions.

Referee report (LaTeX)

\textbf{Recommendation:} major revisions

\textbf{Journal Tier:} specialist/solid

\textbf{Justification:}

The submission proposes a practical and promising training-free conditional diffusion framework for learning SDE flow maps, and the main mathematical identities are essentially correct. However, the theoretical sections are incomplete: key claims (reverse SDE–ODE equivalence and MC estimator consistency) require explicit assumptions and rigorous derivations. There are minor inaccuracies (e.g., the exponential-family remark) and small notational slips in the score weight representation. With a proper theorem–proof presentation and clarified assumptions, the paper would be a solid contribution.