On the Asymptotic Mean Square Error Optimality of Diffusion Models
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| author | Fesl, Benedikt Böck, Benedikt Strasser, Florian Baur, Michael Joham, Michael Utschick, Wolfgang |
| author_facet | Fesl, Benedikt Böck, Benedikt Strasser, Florian Baur, Michael Joham, Michael Utschick, Wolfgang |
| contents | Diffusion models (DMs) as generative priors have recently shown great potential for denoising tasks but lack theoretical understanding with respect to their mean square error (MSE) optimality. This paper proposes a novel denoising strategy inspired by the structure of the MSE-optimal conditional mean estimator (CME). The resulting DM-based denoiser can be conveniently employed using a pre-trained DM, being particularly fast by truncating reverse diffusion steps and not requiring stochastic re-sampling. We present a comprehensive (non-)asymptotic optimality analysis of the proposed diffusion-based denoiser, demonstrating polynomial-time convergence to the CME under mild conditions. Our analysis also derives a novel Lipschitz constant that depends solely on the DM's hyperparameters. Further, we offer a new perspective on DMs, showing that they inherently combine an asymptotically optimal denoiser with a powerful generator, modifiable by switching re-sampling in the reverse process on or off. The theoretical findings are thoroughly validated with experiments based on various benchmark datasets |
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| spellingShingle | On the Asymptotic Mean Square Error Optimality of Diffusion Models Fesl, Benedikt Böck, Benedikt Strasser, Florian Baur, Michael Joham, Michael Utschick, Wolfgang Machine Learning Diffusion models (DMs) as generative priors have recently shown great potential for denoising tasks but lack theoretical understanding with respect to their mean square error (MSE) optimality. This paper proposes a novel denoising strategy inspired by the structure of the MSE-optimal conditional mean estimator (CME). The resulting DM-based denoiser can be conveniently employed using a pre-trained DM, being particularly fast by truncating reverse diffusion steps and not requiring stochastic re-sampling. We present a comprehensive (non-)asymptotic optimality analysis of the proposed diffusion-based denoiser, demonstrating polynomial-time convergence to the CME under mild conditions. Our analysis also derives a novel Lipschitz constant that depends solely on the DM's hyperparameters. Further, we offer a new perspective on DMs, showing that they inherently combine an asymptotically optimal denoiser with a powerful generator, modifiable by switching re-sampling in the reverse process on or off. The theoretical findings are thoroughly validated with experiments based on various benchmark datasets |
| title | On the Asymptotic Mean Square Error Optimality of Diffusion Models |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02957 |