Summary of Consistency Diffusion Bridge Models, by Guande He et al.
Consistency Diffusion Bridge Models
by Guande He, Kaiwen Zheng, Jianfei Chen, Fan Bao, Jun Zhu
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper explores a new approach to diffusion models, specifically diffusion denoising bridge models (DDBMs), which have shown empirical success in tasks like image-to-image translation. However, DDBMs’ sampling process typically requires hundreds of network evaluations, making them impractical for deployment due to high computational demands. To address this issue, the authors propose learning the consistency function of the probability-flow ordinary differential equation (PF-ODE) of DDBMs, which predicts the solution at a starting step given any point on the ODE trajectory. The proposed method, consisting of consistency bridge distillation and training, is flexible and applicable to various design choices. Experimental results show that the method can sample up to 50 times faster than the base DDBM while producing better visual quality in tasks with pixel resolutions ranging from 64×64 to 256×256. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper makes a big discovery about how computers can generate new images and videos. It’s all about something called diffusion models, which are really good at making pictures look like real ones. But right now, these models take a long time to make the pictures because they have to do lots of complicated calculations. The researchers in this paper figured out a way to speed up those calculations so that it takes much less time to make the pictures. This is important because we want to be able to use these models for things like making movies and TV shows, but we need them to work faster. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Distillation » Probability » Translation
