Summary of Glauber Generative Model: Discrete Diffusion Models Via Binary Classification, by Harshit Varma et al.
Glauber Generative Model: Discrete Diffusion Models via Binary Classification
by Harshit Varma, Dheeraj Nagaraj, Karthikeyan Shanmugam
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces the Glauber Generative Model (GGM), a new class of discrete diffusion models designed to generate new samples from a given distribution. Unlike previous works, which solved regression problems or minimized loss functions using variational approximations, GGM reduces the task of denoising a sequence of noisy tokens to solving binary classification tasks. Specifically, the model learns to classify each token in the sequence as signal or noise. The authors apply GGM to language modeling and image generation, demonstrating its ability to outperform existing discrete diffusion models in language generation and achieve strong performance in image generation without relying on dataset-specific image tokenizers. Additionally, they show that their model can operate well in zero-shot control settings like text and image infilling. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a new way to generate new images or text from existing data. This method, called the Glauber Generative Model (GGM), uses a special type of chain reaction to remove noise from a sequence of tokens and create a new sample that follows the same patterns as the original data. The authors test this model on language generation and image generation tasks and show that it performs better than other models in these areas. They also demonstrate that their model can generate new images or text without needing specific information about the type of data it’s generating. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Generative model » Image generation » Regression » Token » Zero shot
