Mustapha Bounoua

1. 

   ArXiv

   Improved Sampling Schedules for Discrete Diffusion Models

   Alberto Foresti^*,  Mustapha Bounoua^*, Giulio Franseze, and 1 more author

   In Preprint, 2026

   Preprint

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{alberto2026,
     title = {Improved Sampling Schedules for Discrete Diffusion Models},
     author = {Foresti^*, Alberto and Bounoua^*, Mustapha and Franseze, Giulio and Michiardi, Pietro},
     booktitle = {Preprint},
     year = {2026},
     presentation_type = {Preprint},
   }

2. 

   AISTATS

   TENDE: Transfer Entropy Neural Diffusion Estimation

   Simon Pedro Galeano Munoz,  Mustapha Bounoua, Giulio Franzese, and 2 more authors

   In AISTATS, 2026

   Poster

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{munoz,
     title = {TENDE: Transfer Entropy Neural Diffusion Estimation},
     author = {Munoz, Simon Pedro Galeano and Bounoua, Mustapha and Franzese, Giulio and Michiardi, Pietro and Filippone, Maurizio},
     booktitle = {AISTATS},
     presentation_type = {Poster},
     year = {2026},
     address = {Tangier, Morocco},
   }

3. 

   Sorbonne

   Harnessing Multimodality : Diffusion based Generative Modeling and Information Estimation

   Mustapha Bounoua

   Sorbonne Université, Jul 2025

   Phd thesis

   Bib PDF

   @phdthesis{bounoua:tel-05416294,
     title = {{Harnessing Multimodality : Diffusion based Generative Modeling and Information Estimation}},
     author = {Bounoua, Mustapha},
     school = {{Sorbonne Universit{\'e}}},
     year = {2025},
     presentation_type = {PhD Thesis},
     month = jul,
   }

4. 

   ICML

   Learning to Match Unpaired Data with Minimum Entropy Coupling

   Mustapha Bounoua, Giulio Franzese, and Pietro Michiardi

   In International Conference on Machine Learning, Jul 2025

   Poster

   Bib PDF Code Slides

   @inproceedings{bounoua2025learningmatchunpaireddata,
     title = {Learning to Match Unpaired Data with Minimum Entropy Coupling},
     author = {Bounoua, Mustapha and Franzese, Giulio and Michiardi, Pietro},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
     year = {2025},
     presentation_type = {Poster},
   }

5. 

   ICML

   SΩI: Score-based O-INFORMATION Estimation

   Mustapha Bounoua, Giulio Franzese, and Pietro Michiardi

   In International Conference on Machine Learning, Jul 2024

   Oral top 1.5%

   Bib PDF Code Slides

   @inproceedings{bounoua2024somegai,
     title = {SΩI: Score-based O-INFORMATION Estimation},
     author = {Bounoua, Mustapha and Franzese, Giulio and Michiardi, Pietro},
     year = {2024},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
     presentation_type = {Oral Top 1.5\%},
   }

6. 

   Entropy

   Multi-Modal Latent Diffusion

   Mustapha Bounoua, Giulio Franzese, and Pietro Michiardi

   In Entropy, Deep Generative Modeling: Theory and Applications, Jul 2024

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{bounoua2023multimodal,
     author = {Bounoua, Mustapha and Franzese, Giulio and Michiardi, Pietro},
     title = {Multi-Modal Latent Diffusion},
     journal = {Entropy},
     booktitle = {Entropy, Deep Generative Modeling: Theory and Applications},
     volume = {26},
     number = {4},
     year = {2024},
   }

7. 

   ICLR

   MINDE: Mutual Information Neural Diffusion Estimation

   Giulio Franzese,  Mustapha Bounoua, and Pietro Michiardi

   In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, Jul 2024

   Poster

   Bib PDF Code

   @inproceedings{franzese2023minde,
     title = {MINDE: Mutual Information Neural Diffusion Estimation},
     author = {Franzese, Giulio and Bounoua, Mustapha and Michiardi, Pietro},
     booktitle = {The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations},
     year = {2024},
     presentation_type = {Poster},
   }

8. 

   Neurips

   Masked multi-time diffusion for multi-modal generative modeling

   Mustapha Bounoua, Giulio Franzese, and Pietro Michiardi

   In NeurIPS 2023, Diffusion Models Workshop, Jul 2023

   Workshop

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{EURECOM+7540,
     author = {Bounoua, Mustapha and Franzese, Giulio and Michiardi, Pietro},
     title = {Masked multi-time diffusion for multi-modal generative modeling},
     booktitle = {NeurIPS 2023, Diffusion Models Workshop},
     year = {2023},
     address = {New Orleans},
     presentation_type = {Workshop}
   }

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