Summary of Improving Diffusion Models For Inverse Problems Using Optimal Posterior Covariance, by Xinyu Peng et al.
Improving Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems Using Optimal Posterior Covariance
by Xinyu Peng, Ziyang Zheng, Wenrui Dai, Nuoqian Xiao, Chenglin Li, Junni Zou, Hongkai Xiong
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 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 recent diffusion models offer a promising solution to noisy linear inverse problems without retraining for specific inverse problems. This paper reveals that these methods can be uniformly interpreted as using a Gaussian approximation with hand-crafted isotropic covariance to approximate the conditional posterior mean. Building upon this finding, the authors propose improving recent methods by using more principled covariance determined by maximum likelihood estimation. To achieve posterior covariance optimization without retraining, they provide general plug-and-play solutions based on two approaches specifically designed for leveraging pre-trained models with and without reverse covariance. Additionally, they propose a scalable method for learning posterior covariance prediction based on representation with orthonormal basis. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed methods significantly enhance reconstruction performance without requiring hyperparameter tuning. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Recent diffusion models can solve noisy linear inverse problems without retraining. This paper explains how these models work and proposes ways to make them even better. The authors show that current methods are similar to using a special kind of statistical model called a Gaussian approximation. They use this idea to suggest improvements, such as using a more accurate type of covariance. To do this, they provide simple solutions that can be used with existing pre-trained models. The results show that these new methods work well and don’t need fine-tuning. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion * Fine tuning * Hyperparameter * Likelihood * Optimization * Statistical model
