Proximal Diffusion Neural Sampler

arXiv:2510.03824v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The task of learning a diffusion-based neural sampler for drawing samples from an unnormalized target distribution can be viewed as a stochastic optimal control problem on path measures. However, the training of neural samplers can be challenging when the target distribution is multimodal with significant barriers separating the modes, potentially leading to mode collapse. We propose a framework named Proximal Diffusion Neural Sampler (PD