Summary of Adapting to Unknown Low-dimensional Structures in Score-based Diffusion Models, by Gen Li et al.
Adapting to Unknown Low-Dimensional Structures in Score-Based Diffusion Models
by Gen Li, Yuling Yan
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Statistics Theory (math.ST); 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 explores the performance of score-based diffusion models when the underlying data distribution is concentrated on or near low-dimensional manifolds. The authors investigate how existing theoretical support for diffusion models breaks down in the presence of such structure, which is common in natural image distributions. Specifically, they focus on the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) and find that the error incurred within each denoising step depends on the ambient dimension d. The authors also identify a unique design of coefficients that yields a convergence rate of O(k^2 / √T), where k is the intrinsic dimension of the target distribution and T is the number of steps. This represents the first theoretical demonstration that the DDPM sampler can adapt to unknown low-dimensional structures in the target distribution. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how well diffusion models work when the data has a special structure, like a line or plane within a higher-dimensional space. The authors want to know why previous attempts to understand these models didn’t quite work when they encountered this kind of structure. They find that one popular model, called DDPM, can actually adapt to these kinds of structures and learn from them. This is important because it means we can use diffusion models to generate new images or other data that are realistic and look like the real thing. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Probabilistic model
