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Main Authors: Scarvelis, Christopher, Borde, Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz, Solomon, Justin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12395
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author Scarvelis, Christopher
Borde, Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz
Solomon, Justin
author_facet Scarvelis, Christopher
Borde, Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz
Solomon, Justin
contents Score-based generative models (SGMs) sample from a target distribution by iteratively transforming noise using the score function of the perturbed target. For any finite training set, this score function can be evaluated in closed form, but the resulting SGM memorizes its training data and does not generate novel samples. In practice, one approximates the score by training a neural network via score-matching. The error in this approximation promotes generalization, but neural SGMs are costly to train and sample, and the effective regularization this error provides is not well-understood theoretically. In this work, we instead explicitly smooth the closed-form score to obtain an SGM that generates novel samples without training. We analyze our model and propose an efficient nearest-neighbor-based estimator of its score function. Using this estimator, our method achieves competitive sampling times while running on consumer-grade CPUs.
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spellingShingle Closed-Form Diffusion Models
Scarvelis, Christopher
Borde, Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz
Solomon, Justin
Machine Learning
Score-based generative models (SGMs) sample from a target distribution by iteratively transforming noise using the score function of the perturbed target. For any finite training set, this score function can be evaluated in closed form, but the resulting SGM memorizes its training data and does not generate novel samples. In practice, one approximates the score by training a neural network via score-matching. The error in this approximation promotes generalization, but neural SGMs are costly to train and sample, and the effective regularization this error provides is not well-understood theoretically. In this work, we instead explicitly smooth the closed-form score to obtain an SGM that generates novel samples without training. We analyze our model and propose an efficient nearest-neighbor-based estimator of its score function. Using this estimator, our method achieves competitive sampling times while running on consumer-grade CPUs.
title Closed-Form Diffusion Models
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12395