Summary of A Good Score Does Not Lead to a Good Generative Model, by Sixu Li et al.
A Good Score Does not Lead to A Good Generative Model
by Sixu Li, Shi Chen, Qin Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Medium Difficulty summary: This paper presents a counter-example to the empirical success of Score-based Generative Models (SGMs), a popular method for generating high-quality samples from complex data distributions. While SGMs have been shown to converge theoretically, our findings demonstrate that in certain settings, they can only output Gaussian-blurred versions of training data points, mimicking kernel density estimation. This result resonates with recent findings highlighting the memorization effects of SGMs and their failure to generate novel samples. By providing a specific setting where the score function is learned well but still yields poor results, our research challenges the assumption that SGMs are effective generative models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Low Difficulty summary: This paper shows that a popular method for generating new data (called Score-based Generative Models) can sometimes fail to do its job. While it’s been thought that this method could generate realistic-looking data, our study found that in certain situations, it can only create blurry versions of the original training data. This is similar to what happens when you use a special kind of statistical analysis called kernel density estimation. We discovered this by showing a specific example where the method works well but still produces poor results. This challenges our understanding of how well this method can generate new data. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Density estimation
