Summary of Training-free Diffusion Model Alignment with Sampling Demons, by Po-hung Yeh et al.
Training-free Diffusion Model Alignment with Sampling Demons
by Po-Hung Yeh, Kuang-Huei Lee, Jun-Cheng Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel approach to aligning diffusion models with user preferences, dubbed Demon. The existing methods for alignment require retraining or are limited to differentiable reward functions. Demon is a stochastic optimization method that guides the denoising process at inference time without backpropagation through reward functions or model retraining. It works by controlling noise distribution in denoising steps to concentrate density on regions corresponding to high rewards through stochastic optimization. The authors provide comprehensive theoretical and empirical evidence to support and validate their approach, including experiments using non-differentiable sources of rewards such as Visual-Language Model (VLM) APIs and human judgements. Demon is the first inference-time, backpropagation-free preference alignment method for diffusion models that can be easily integrated with existing diffusion models without further training. The proposed approach significantly improves average aesthetics scores for text-to-image generation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps computers make images by following what people like. Computers already make nice pictures but need guidance on what looks good or bad. Researchers had trouble making this work because it required retraining or using special math. They created a new way to do this without needing to retrain the computer or use complicated math. It’s called Demon and works by adjusting how much noise is added to the picture so that the computer focuses on areas people like. The paper shows that Demon makes pictures look better than before, especially when it comes to making images of things that are meant to be nice-looking. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Backpropagation » Diffusion » Image generation » Inference » Language model » Optimization
