Summary of Consistency Model Is An Effective Posterior Sample Approximation For Diffusion Inverse Solvers, by Tongda Xu et al.
Consistency Model is an Effective Posterior Sample Approximation for Diffusion Inverse Solvers
by Tongda Xu, Ziran Zhu, Jian Li, Dailan He, Yuanyuan Wang, Ming Sun, Ling Li, Hongwei Qin, Yan Wang, Jingjing Liu, Ya-Qin Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- 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 The paper proposes a novel approach to diffusion inverse solvers (DIS) that generates valid samples within the support of the image distribution, enhancing compatibility with neural network-based operators. Existing DIS estimate the conditional score function by evaluating an approximated posterior sample drawn from p_theta(X_0|X_t), but this can lead to out-of-support samples degrading operator performance. The proposed method uses Probability Flow Ordinary Differential Equation (PF-ODE) solutions and Consistency Model (CM) for posterior sampling, leading to improved effectiveness of DIS with neural network operators (e.g., in semantic segmentation). The paper demonstrates the effectiveness of the new CM-based inversion techniques through extensive experiments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a new way to make computer programs that can create realistic images. It’s like taking a photo and then asking the program to recreate it, but this time it uses special mathematical equations to do it. The problem with previous methods is that they sometimes create pictures that don’t look like real images, which makes them not very useful. This new method guarantees that the created image will be realistic and looks like something you might see in real life. It’s especially good for using with special types of computer programs called neural networks. The researchers tested this new method and found it to work much better than previous methods. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion * Neural network * Probability * Semantic segmentation
