Summary of A Closer Look at Time Steps Is Worthy Of Triple Speed-up For Diffusion Model Training, by Kai Wang et al.
A Closer Look at Time Steps is Worthy of Triple Speed-Up for Diffusion Model Training
by Kai Wang, Mingjia Shi, Yukun Zhou, Zekai Li, Zhihang Yuan, Yuzhang Shang, Xiaojiang Peng, Hanwang Zhang, Yang You
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed speed-up method for diffusion model training, SpeeD, leverages insights into time steps to accelerate the process. By empirically dividing time steps into acceleration, deceleration, and convergence areas, the approach identifies an imbalance with many steps concentrated in the convergence area, providing limited benefits for diffusion training. An asymmetric sampling strategy reduces the frequency of these steps while increasing the sampling probability for others. Additionally, a weighting strategy emphasizes the importance of rapid-change process increments. This plug-and-play approach consistently achieves 3-times acceleration across various architectures, datasets, and tasks, reducing the cost of model training with minimal overhead. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary SpeeD is a new way to make diffusion models train faster. It looks at time steps and finds that most of them are not very helpful for training. The method reduces the number of these unhelpful steps and increases the number of other steps that are more useful. This helps speed up the training process without making any big changes to how the model is designed. This means more researchers can train diffusion models without spending as much time or money. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion * Diffusion model * Probability
