Publications

@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},
}

@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},
}

@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,
}

@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},
}

@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\%},
}

@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},
}

@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},
}

@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}
}