Summary of Deep Reward Supervisions For Tuning Text-to-image Diffusion Models, by Xiaoshi Wu et al.
Deep Reward Supervisions for Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
by Xiaoshi Wu, Yiming Hao, Manyuan Zhang, Keqiang Sun, Zhaoyang Huang, Guanglu Song, Yu Liu, Hongsheng Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes Deep Reward Tuning (DRTune), a novel algorithm for optimizing text-to-image diffusion models by directly supervising the final output image and back-propagating through the iterative sampling process to the input noise. DRTune is designed to address the underexplored area of optimizing these models with given reward functions. The authors find that training earlier steps in the sampling process is crucial for low-level rewards, and deep supervision can be achieved efficiently by stopping the gradient of the denoising network input. DRTune outperforms other algorithms on various reward models, particularly for low-level control signals where shallow supervision methods fail. Additionally, the paper fine-tunes a Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 model via DRTune to optimize Human Preference Score v2.1, resulting in the Favorable Diffusion XL 1.0 (FDXL 1.0) model that achieves comparable image quality to Midjourney v5.2 and significantly enhances it compared to SDXL 1.0. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making AI models better at creating images based on text descriptions. The problem is that these models aren’t very good at following instructions from rewards, like getting a high score for making an image look a certain way. The researchers developed a new technique called Deep Reward Tuning (DRTune) to solve this issue. DRTune helps the model understand what it’s supposed to do by supervising the final image and adjusting the noise input. This makes the model much better at following rewards, especially for simple tasks. They also tested their method on a real AI model called Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 and found that it produced high-quality images that were almost as good as those from another popular AI model. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion
