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48 results for Diffusion flow

This work interprets diffusion score matching using normalizing flows for better model training and evaluations.

problem Limitations of diffusion score matching when dealing with certain types of distributions.
method The approach involves interpreting the diffusion matrix using normalizing flows to provide better interpretation and usage of diffusion score matching.
result Diffusion score matching is equivalent to the original score matching evaluated in the transformed space defined by the normalizing flow.

Surface diffusion and mean curvature flows converge to stable critical sets in flat tori.

problem Stability of surface diffusion and mean curvature flows in flat tori.
method Existence and convergence of flows starting close to stable critical sets, proven for all times.
result Flows converge exponentially fast to stable critical sets in flat tori.

Flow Matching enables robust training of CNFs with various probability paths.

problem Training Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs) at large scales.
method Flow Matching (FM) is a simulation-free approach for training CNFs by regressing vector fields of conditional probability paths.
result Flow Matching with diffusion paths yields more robust and stable training compared to diffusion-based methods.

Efficiently solves inverse problems with diffusion and flow models in just a few steps.

problem Solving inverse problems like super-resolution, inpainting, or deblurring using diffusion or flow models.
method Conditional Conjugate Integrators framework that projects inverse problem dynamics into a more amenable space for sampling.
result Generates high-quality samples in as few as 5 conditional sampling steps, outperforming competing methods.

GLASS Flows improves flow and diffusion model performance by optimizing sampling efficiency.

problem Efficiency bottleneck in sampling Markov transitions for flow and diffusion models.
method Introduces GLASS Flows, a new sampling paradigm that simulates a 'flow matching model within a flow matching model' to sample Markov transitions efficiently.
result Eliminates the trade-off between stochastic evolution and efficiency in large-scale text-to-image models.

The study examines how shallow neural nets converge to training samples or manifold points during diffusion.

problem Understanding when and how shallow neural nets converge to training samples or manifold points during diffusion.
method Analysis of shallow ReLU neural network denoisers trained with minimal 2\ell^2 norm, comparing score flow and diffusion flow.
result Probability flow converges to training points, sums of training points, or manifold points, depending on the diffusion time scheduler.

We present a novel approximate inference method for diffusion processes, based on the Wasserstein gradient flow formulation of the diffusion. In this formulation, the time-dependent density of the diffusion is derived as the limit of implicit Euler steps that follow the gradients of a particular free energy functional.…

2018-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural Flow Diffusion Models improve diffusion models by learning flexible forward processes.

problem Fixed forward processes in diffusion models complicate reverse processes and increase inference costs.
method Introduces NFDM, a framework supporting flexible forward processes and a novel parameterization technique.
result Demonstrates strong performance in likelihood estimation and learning generative dynamics.

We introduce cylindrical projections to simulate infinite-dimensional occupation flows of diffusions.

problem Computational intractability of infinite-dimensional occupation flows of diffusions.
method Introduce cylindrical projections to approximate the occupation flow via a finite-dimensional system.
result Strong convergence of cylindrical projections to the initial process with derived rates.

The paper justifies time-dependent loss reweighting schemes for flow matching and diffusion models.

problem Theoretical justification for time-dependent loss reweighting schemes in flow matching and diffusion models.
method Clarifies that the loss can depend on both time and state, and shows theoretical justification for time-dependent loss weighting schemes.
result Time-dependent loss weighting schemes are theoretically justified for Generator Matching and Edit Flows.

Improved NPE with conditional diffusions and summary networks.

problem Approximating complex posterior distributions efficiently and accurately.
method Conditional diffusions coupled with high-capacity summary networks.
result Conditional diffusions offer improved stability, accuracy, and faster training times.

New diffusion models capture heavy-tailed distributions better.

problem Diffusion models struggle with rare or extreme events in heavy-tailed distributions.
method Repurposed diffusion framework using multivariate Student-t distributions, tailored perturbation kernel, and γγ-divergence.
result Our models generate rare and extreme events more effectively than standard diffusion models.

Bi-Lipschitz flows approximate a wide range of distributions.

problem Characterizing the expressivity of bi-Lipschitz normalizing flows.
method Linking score regularity to transport map bi-Lipschitzness via probability flow ODE.
result Gaussian pullbacks induced by bi-Lipschitz variance-preserving transport maps are L1L^1-dense among all probability densities.

New error bounds for flow matching methods using deterministic sampling.

problem Improving the accuracy of flow matching methods for generating probability distributions.
method Derived error bounds for flow matching methods under deterministic sampling conditions.
result Presented error bounds for flow matching methods using L2L^2 loss and regularity conditions.

Novel alignment framework for text-to-image generation using diffusion models and flow matching.

problem Improving text-to-image generation with minimal computational resources.
method Proposes a novel alignment framework that decomposes the score function into pre-trained score plus a conditional expectation of the reward.
result Achieves comparable performance to finetuning-based models with reduced computational cost.

We prove a blow-up criterion in terms of an L2L_2-bound of the curvature for solutions to the curve diffusion flow if the maximal time of existence is finite. In our setting, we consider an evolving family of curves driven by curve diffusion flow, which has free boundary points supported on a line. The evolving curve h…

2018-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Language Rectified Flow improves diffusion language generation by simplifying complex steps.

problem Complexity in diffusion language models limits their implementation in NLP applications.
method Reformulates probabilistic flow models to learn neural ODE models for efficient domain transfer.
result Consistently outperforms baselines on fine-grained control tasks and text editing.

Sharp Lipschitz bounds for flow-matching and diffusion models with optimal sampling rates.

problem Establishing optimal Lipschitz regularity for flow-matching and diffusion models.
method Sharp Lipschitz regularity theory for flow-matching vector fields and diffusion-model scores.
result Achieves optimal sampling rate of d/N\sqrt{d}/N for Euler-type samplers in dimension dd.

Riemannian stochastic gradient descent approximates a diffusion process called Riemannian stochastic modified flow.

problem Improving convergence rate of Riemannian stochastic gradient descent.
method Using stochastic differential geometry, the paper shows RSGD can be approximated by the Riemannian stochastic modified flow (RSMF).
result RSGD can be approximated by the solution to the RSMF driven by an infinite-dimensional Wiener process, increasing the order of approximation.

The paper improves the probability flow ODE sampler for faster sampling of natural images.

problem Improving the convergence rate of the probability flow ODE sampler.
method Adapting the probability flow ODE sampler to exploit intrinsic low-dimensional structures in natural image data.
result Achieves a dimension-free convergence rate of O(k/T)O(k/T) in total variation distance, improving upon existing results.

New theory improves diffusion model convergence for generating data.

problem Improving convergence of diffusion models for data generation.
method Developed a non-asymptotic convergence theory for probability flow ODEs.
result Proves d/εd/\varepsilon iterations suffice for approximating target distributions.

Study on curve diffusion flows with scale-critical curvature term.

problem Analyzing stability of curve diffusion flows with scale-critical curvature.
method Introduced and studied a one-parameter family of curve diffusion flows with a scale-critical cubic curvature term. Analyzed dynamical stability of homothetic circles using variational methods.
result Established that any small perturbation of an ωω-fold circle monotonically approaches the unit ωω-circle after rescaling, translation, and reparametrisation.

We consider closed immersed hypersurfaces in R3\R^3 and R4\R^4 evolving by a special class of constrained surface diffusion flows. This class of constrained flows includes the classical surface diffusion flow. In this paper we present a Lifespan Theorem for these flows, which gives a positive lower bound on the time fo…

2012-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved KL bounds and Wasserstein guarantees for diffusion flow matching under minimal conditions.

problem Theoretical convergence properties of Brownian motion based diffusion flow matching.
method Refined analysis under Kullback-Leibler and 2-Wasserstein distances.
result State-of-the-art scaling in KL convergence bounds under minimal conditions.

New algorithm trains latent diffusion models using interacting particles.

problem Training latent diffusion models efficiently and accurately.
method Reformulate training as minimizing a free energy functional, then approximate with interacting particles.
result The new algorithm outperforms previous methods in experiments.

Unified framework for training diffusion and flow models to sample from target distributions.

problem Training diffusion and flow models to sample from target distributions defined by exponential tilting.
method Unified framework combining stochastic optimal control and non-equilibrium thermodynamics perspectives.
result Unified bias-variance decompositions and theoretical support for adjoint-based methods.

Adjoint Matching improves flow and diffusion models with reward fine-tuning.

problem Improving generative models with reward fine-tuning.
method Casting reward fine-tuning as stochastic optimal control (SOC) and enforcing a specific noise schedule.
result Adjoint Matching outperforms existing SOC algorithms.