Summary of A Practical Diffusion Path For Sampling, by Omar Chehab et al.
A Practical Diffusion Path for Sampling
by Omar Chehab, Anna Korba
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents an alternative approach to score estimation in diffusion models, which are state-of-the-art methods for generative modeling when samples from the target probability distribution are available. The proposed method, relying on the dilation path, offers a computationally attractive solution that yields score vectors in closed-form. This is achieved by interpolating between a Dirac and the target distribution using a convolution. The authors implement Langevin dynamics guided by the dilation path with adaptive step-sizes and demonstrate its performance on various tasks, showing it outperforms classical alternatives. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper explores new ways to create artificial data that looks like real data. Right now, there are great methods for doing this when you have some examples of what the real data should look like. But what if you don’t have any examples? The authors propose a new approach that can still create good artificial data in this situation. They test their method on different tasks and show it works better than older methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Probability
