Summary of Theory on Score-mismatched Diffusion Models and Zero-shot Conditional Samplers, by Yuchen Liang and Peizhong Ju and Yingbin Liang and Ness Shroff
Theory on Score-Mismatched Diffusion Models and Zero-Shot Conditional Samplers
by Yuchen Liang, Peizhong Ju, Yingbin Liang, Ness Shroff
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: 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 The denoising diffusion model has emerged as a powerful generative technique, capable of transforming noise into meaningful data. The paper presents the first performance guarantee with explicit dimensional dependencies for general score-mismatched diffusion samplers, focusing on target distributions with finite second moments. It shows that score mismatches result in an asymptotic distributional bias between the target and sampling distributions, proportional to the accumulated mismatch between the target and training distributions. This result can be directly applied to zero-shot conditional samplers for any conditional model, irrespective of measurement noise. The paper also establishes convergence guarantees with explicit dependencies on dimension and conditioning for bias-optimal samplers in linear conditional models that minimize the asymptotic bias. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The denoising diffusion model is a powerful tool for generating meaningful data from noise. In this paper, researchers looked at how well this model works when the target distribution (what we want to generate) is different from the training distribution (the data it was trained on). They found that when these distributions don’t match up, the model gets biased and can’t accurately generate the desired output. The team came up with a new way to minimize this bias, which they showed worked well in simulations. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Diffusion model » Zero shot
