Summary of Gradient Guidance For Diffusion Models: An Optimization Perspective, by Yingqing Guo et al.
Gradient Guidance for Diffusion Models: An Optimization Perspective
by Yingqing Guo, Hui Yuan, Yukang Yang, Minshuo Chen, Mengdi Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- 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 This paper explores the application of gradient guidance for adapting pre-trained diffusion models to optimize user-defined objectives. By establishing a mathematical framework, the authors demonstrate that guided diffusion models are essentially sampling solutions to regularized optimization problems, where the regularization is imposed by the pre-training data. The study also introduces a modified form of gradient guidance based on a forward prediction loss, which preserves the latent structure in generated samples. Additionally, an iteratively fine-tuned version of gradient-guided diffusion is proposed, which achieves convergence rate O(1/K) to the global optimum when the objective function is concave. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper takes a pre-trained diffusion model and helps it learn new things by using special guidance. This guidance comes from what we want the model to do better, like making pictures or generating text. The researchers show that this way of guiding the model is connected to an optimization problem, where they use the old data to help the model make good choices. They also find a way to make sure the new things the model learns are still good and don’t mess up the original structure. This helps the model get better at what we want it to do. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Diffusion model » Objective function » Optimization » Regularization
