Summary of Accelerating Parallel Sampling Of Diffusion Models, by Zhiwei Tang et al.
Accelerating Parallel Sampling of Diffusion Models
by Zhiwei Tang, Jiasheng Tang, Hao Luo, Fan Wang, Tsung-Hui Chang
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Feb 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 This paper proposes a novel approach to accelerate the sampling of diffusion models for image generation. By parallelizing the autoregressive process, the authors reformulate the sampling process as solving a system of triangular nonlinear equations through fixed-point iteration. This allows for the introduction of ParaTAA, a universal and training-free parallel sampling algorithm that can leverage extra computational and memory resources to increase the sampling speed. Experimental results demonstrate that ParaTAA can decrease the inference steps required by common sequential sampling algorithms such as DDIM and DDPM by a factor of 4-14 times. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In simple terms, this paper helps improve the speed at which computers generate realistic images using a special kind of model called diffusion models. The authors found a way to make the process faster by breaking it down into smaller pieces that can be done simultaneously on multiple computers. This new approach is called ParaTAA and it makes generating images much quicker! For example, it can create the same image as another popular method in just 7 steps instead of the usual hundreds. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Autoregressive * Diffusion * Image generation * Inference
