Variance reduction of diffusion model's gradients with Taylor approximation-based control variate

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Main Authors: Jeha, Paul, Grathwohl, Will, Andersen, Michael Riis, Ek, Carl Henrik, Frellsen, Jes
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Published: 2024
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author Jeha, Paul
Grathwohl, Will
Andersen, Michael Riis
Ek, Carl Henrik
Frellsen, Jes
author_facet Jeha, Paul
Grathwohl, Will
Andersen, Michael Riis
Ek, Carl Henrik
Frellsen, Jes
contents Score-based models, trained with denoising score matching, are remarkably effective in generating high dimensional data. However, the high variance of their training objective hinders optimisation. We attempt to reduce it with a control variate, derived via a $k$-th order Taylor expansion on the training objective and its gradient. We prove an equivalence between the two and demonstrate empirically the effectiveness of our approach on a low dimensional problem setting; and study its effect on larger problems.
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spellingShingle Variance reduction of diffusion model's gradients with Taylor approximation-based control variate
Jeha, Paul
Grathwohl, Will
Andersen, Michael Riis
Ek, Carl Henrik
Frellsen, Jes
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Score-based models, trained with denoising score matching, are remarkably effective in generating high dimensional data. However, the high variance of their training objective hinders optimisation. We attempt to reduce it with a control variate, derived via a $k$-th order Taylor expansion on the training objective and its gradient. We prove an equivalence between the two and demonstrate empirically the effectiveness of our approach on a low dimensional problem setting; and study its effect on larger problems.
title Variance reduction of diffusion model's gradients with Taylor approximation-based control variate
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12270