Diffusion Models for Decision Making Reading List

Curated by Mouhssine Rifaki | Stanford Electrical Engineering | Last updated April 2026

Score-based generative models applied to sequential decision making, planning, and policy representation.

1. Planning with Diffusion for Flexible Behavior Synthesis
   Janner et al.. ICML 2022.
2. Is Conditional Generative Modeling All You Need for Decision-Making?
   Ajay et al.. ICLR 2023.
3. Diffusion Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion
   Chi et al.. RSS 2023.
4. Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
   Ho, Jain, Abbeel. NeurIPS 2020.
5. Score-Based Generative Modeling through Stochastic Differential Equations
   Song et al.. ICLR 2021.
6. Flow Matching for Generative Modeling
   Lipman et al.. ICLR 2023.
7. Stein Variational Guided Model Predictive Path Integral Control: Proposal and Experiments with Fast Maneuvering Vehicles
   Power and Berenson. L4DC 2022.
8. Diffusion Models for Reinforcement Learning: A Survey
   Zhu et al.. arXiv 2023.
9. AdaptDiffuser: Diffusion Models as Adaptive Self-Evolving Planners
   Liang et al.. ICML 2023.
10. From Diffusion Models to Schrodinger Bridges
    Doucet. NeurIPS 2024 Tutorial.