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Discrete Diffusion Bridges for Spatiotemporally Aligned Image Translation and Generation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 30, 2026 · UTC

We propose Discrete Diffusion Bridges (DDB), a novel framework designed to resolve the fundamental spatiotemporal misalignment of standard discrete diffusion in image translation and generation. By corrupting data into a pure mask state via a random schedule, the conventional forward process induces a twofold misalignment: spatially, this pure-mask destination entirely discards the rich structural priors of the source image; temporally, the random masking order inherently contradicts the ``easy-first, hard-last'' decoding mechanism used during inference. To address this, DDB constructs a direc

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