Diffusion Models as Data Mining Tools

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Main Authors: Siglidis, Ioannis, Holynski, Aleksander, Efros, Alexei A., Aubry, Mathieu, Ginosar, Shiry
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Published: 2024
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author Siglidis, Ioannis
Holynski, Aleksander
Efros, Alexei A.
Aubry, Mathieu
Ginosar, Shiry
author_facet Siglidis, Ioannis
Holynski, Aleksander
Efros, Alexei A.
Aubry, Mathieu
Ginosar, Shiry
contents This paper demonstrates how to use generative models trained for image synthesis as tools for visual data mining. Our insight is that since contemporary generative models learn an accurate representation of their training data, we can use them to summarize the data by mining for visual patterns. Concretely, we show that after finetuning conditional diffusion models to synthesize images from a specific dataset, we can use these models to define a typicality measure on that dataset. This measure assesses how typical visual elements are for different data labels, such as geographic location, time stamps, semantic labels, or even the presence of a disease. This analysis-by-synthesis approach to data mining has two key advantages. First, it scales much better than traditional correspondence-based approaches since it does not require explicitly comparing all pairs of visual elements. Second, while most previous works on visual data mining focus on a single dataset, our approach works on diverse datasets in terms of content and scale, including a historical car dataset, a historical face dataset, a large worldwide street-view dataset, and an even larger scene dataset. Furthermore, our approach allows for translating visual elements across class labels and analyzing consistent changes.
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spellingShingle Diffusion Models as Data Mining Tools
Siglidis, Ioannis
Holynski, Aleksander
Efros, Alexei A.
Aubry, Mathieu
Ginosar, Shiry
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
This paper demonstrates how to use generative models trained for image synthesis as tools for visual data mining. Our insight is that since contemporary generative models learn an accurate representation of their training data, we can use them to summarize the data by mining for visual patterns. Concretely, we show that after finetuning conditional diffusion models to synthesize images from a specific dataset, we can use these models to define a typicality measure on that dataset. This measure assesses how typical visual elements are for different data labels, such as geographic location, time stamps, semantic labels, or even the presence of a disease. This analysis-by-synthesis approach to data mining has two key advantages. First, it scales much better than traditional correspondence-based approaches since it does not require explicitly comparing all pairs of visual elements. Second, while most previous works on visual data mining focus on a single dataset, our approach works on diverse datasets in terms of content and scale, including a historical car dataset, a historical face dataset, a large worldwide street-view dataset, and an even larger scene dataset. Furthermore, our approach allows for translating visual elements across class labels and analyzing consistent changes.
title Diffusion Models as Data Mining Tools
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02752