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  1. Generation Order and Parallel Decoding in Masked Diffusion Models: An Information-Theoretic Perspective
    Shaorong Zhang, Longxuan Yu, Rob Brekelmans, Luhan Tang, Salman Asif, Greg Ver Steeg
    Under review, 2026
  2. Thinking Out of Order: When Output Order Stops Reflecting Reasoning Order in Diffusion Language Models
    Longxuan Yu, Yu Fu, Shaorong Zhang, Hui Liu, Mukund Varma T, Greg Ver Steeg, Yue Dong
    Under review, 2026
  3. Local MAP Sampling for Diffusion Models
    Shaorong Zhang, Rob Brekelmans, Greg Ver Steeg
    Under review, 2025
  4. Measurement-Aligned Flow for Inverse Problems
    Shaorong Zhang, Rob Brekelmans, Yunshu Wu, Greg Ver Steeg
    Under review, 2025
  5. Exploring the Design Space of Diffusion Bridge Models
    Shaorong Zhang, Yuanbin Cheng, Greg Ver Steeg
    NeurIPS 2025
  6. Diffusion Bridge Models for 3D Medical Image Translation
    Shaorong Zhang, Tamoghna Chattopadhyay, Sophia I. Thomopoulos, Jose-Luis Ambite, Paul M. Thompson, Greg Ver Steeg
    EMBC 2025
  7. Generating Synthetic Net Load Data with Physics-Informed Diffusion Models
    Shaorong Zhang, Yuanbin Cheng, Nanpeng Yu
    IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2025
  8. Data-Driven Control, Optimization, and Decision-Making in Active Power Distribution Networks
    Nanpeng Yu, Shaorong Zhang, Jingtao Qin, Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez, Roel Dobbe, Yang Liu, Anamika Dubey, Yubo Wang, John Dirkman, Haiwang Zhong, et al.
    Applied Energy, Vol. 397, 126253, 2025 (Elsevier)
  9. Learning Power System Dynamics with Noisy Data Using Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
    Shaorong Zhang, Koji Yamashita, Nanpeng Yu
    IEEE PESGM 2024
  10. Learning Power System Dynamics with Nearly-Hamiltonian Neural Networks
    Shaorong Zhang, Nanpeng Yu
    IEEE PESGM 2023