Soft diffusion: Score matching for general corruptions

G Daras, M Delbracio, H Talebi, AG Dimakis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We define a broader family of corruption processes that generalizes previously known
diffusion models. To reverse these general diffusions, we propose a new objective called …

Towards faster non-asymptotic convergence for diffusion-based generative models

G Li, Y Wei, Y Chen, Y Chi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.09251, 2023 - arxiv.org
Diffusion models, which convert noise into new data instances by learning to reverse a
Markov diffusion process, have become a cornerstone in contemporary generative …

Optimizing ddpm sampling with shortcut fine-tuning

Y Fan, K Lee - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.13362, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this study, we propose Shortcut Fine-Tuning (SFT), a new approach for addressing the
challenge of fast sampling of pretrained Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) …

A sharp convergence theory for the probability flow odes of diffusion models

G Li, Y Wei, Y Chi, Y Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.02320, 2024 - arxiv.org
Diffusion models, which convert noise into new data instances by learning to reverse a
diffusion process, have become a cornerstone in contemporary generative modeling. In this …

Unraveling the smoothness properties of diffusion models: A gaussian mixture perspective

Y Liang, Z Shi, Z Song, Y Zhou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.16418, 2024 - arxiv.org
Diffusion models have made rapid progress in generating high-quality samples across
various domains. However, a theoretical understanding of the Lipschitz continuity and …

FP-Diffusion: Improving score-based diffusion models by enforcing the underlying score fokker-planck equation

CH Lai, Y Takida, N Murata, T Uesaka… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Score-based generative models (SGMs) learn a family of noise-conditional score functions
corresponding to the data density perturbed with increasingly large amounts of noise. These …

pop-cosmos: A comprehensive picture of the galaxy population from COSMOS data

J Alsing, S Thorp, S Deger, HV Peiris… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present pop-cosmos: a comprehensive model characterizing the galaxy population,
calibrated to 140,938 (r< 25 selected) galaxies from the Cosmic Evolution Survey …

Optimal transport-guided conditional score-based diffusion model

X Gu, L Yang, J Sun, Z Xu - Advances in Neural Information …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Conditional score-based diffusion model (SBDM) is for conditional generation of target data
with paired data as condition, and has achieved great success in image translation …

Contractive diffusion probabilistic models

W Tang, H Zhao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.13115, 2024 - arxiv.org
Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have emerged as a promising technology in
generative modeling. The success of DPMs relies on two ingredients: time reversal of …

Score-based Diffusion Models via Stochastic Differential Equations--a Technical Tutorial

W Tang, H Zhao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.07487, 2024 - arxiv.org
This is an expository article on the score-based diffusion models, with a particular focus on
the formulation via stochastic differential equations (SDE). After a gentle introduction, we …