Summary of Score Identity Distillation: Exponentially Fast Distillation Of Pretrained Diffusion Models For One-step Generation, by Mingyuan Zhou et al.
Score identity Distillation: Exponentially Fast Distillation of Pretrained Diffusion Models for One-Step Generation
by Mingyuan Zhou, Huangjie Zheng, Zhendong Wang, Mingzhang Yin, Hai Huang
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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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 introduces Score identity Distillation (SiD), a data-free method that distills the generative capabilities of pretrained diffusion models into a single-step generator. SiD achieves an exponentially fast reduction in Fréchet inception distance (FID) during distillation, while also approaching or exceeding the FID performance of the original teacher diffusion models. The method leverages three score-related identities to create an innovative loss mechanism that trains the generator using its own synthesized images, eliminating the need for real data or reverse-diffusion-based generation. SiD demonstrates high iteration efficiency during distillation and surpasses competing distillation approaches in terms of generation quality. This achievement redefines benchmarks for efficiency and effectiveness in diffusion distillation and has implications for the broader field of diffusion-based generation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a new way to make pictures using computers, called Score identity Distillation (SiD). It takes a special kind of computer model that makes pictures and makes it even better without needing any extra training data. This is important because it means we can make pictures faster and more easily. The researchers came up with a new way to use this computer model by making it look at its own creations, rather than real pictures. They tested it on four different sets of pictures and found that it works really well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Distillation
