https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.00036/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138215urn:hackerpapers:mention:2401.00036:49138215Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:36:12 GMT<p>This feels extremely close in nature to being a generalisation of discrete distribution networks. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00036 Project page: https://discrete-distribution-networks.github.io/ Given that these were published at ICML 2025, at which the author was a top reviewer as per their own website https://alexiglad.github.io/, I wonder how influenced they were to pursue this avenue of the back of it. They do have a related works section in appendix E, but it somehow seems to miss this. Which is odd, as the paper made a splash at the time at the conference and even made it close…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.00036/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CVhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45539594urn:hackerpapers:mention:2401.00036:45539594Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:35:48 GMT<p>Thank you very much for your interest. 1. The comparison with GANs and the issue of mode collapse are addressed in Q2 at the end of the blog: https://github.com/Discrete-Distribution-Networks/Discrete-D... 2. Regarding scalability, please see “Future Research Directions” in the same blog: https://github.com/Discrete-Distribution-Networks/Discrete-D... 3. Answers or relevant explanations to any other questions can be found directly in the original paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00036), so I won’t restate them here.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2401.00036/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CV