G2D2: Gradient-Guided Discrete Diffusion for Inverse Problem Solving

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Auteurs principaux: Murata, Naoki, Lai, Chieh-Hsin, Takida, Yuhta, Uesaka, Toshimitsu, Nguyen, Bac, Ermon, Stefano, Mitsufuji, Yuki
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author Murata, Naoki
Lai, Chieh-Hsin
Takida, Yuhta
Uesaka, Toshimitsu
Nguyen, Bac
Ermon, Stefano
Mitsufuji, Yuki
author_facet Murata, Naoki
Lai, Chieh-Hsin
Takida, Yuhta
Uesaka, Toshimitsu
Nguyen, Bac
Ermon, Stefano
Mitsufuji, Yuki
contents Recent literature has effectively leveraged diffusion models trained on continuous variables as priors for solving inverse problems. Notably, discrete diffusion models with discrete latent codes have shown strong performance, particularly in modalities suited for discrete compressed representations, such as image and motion generation. However, their discrete and non-differentiable nature has limited their application to inverse problems formulated in continuous spaces. This paper presents a novel method for addressing linear inverse problems by leveraging generative models based on discrete diffusion as priors. We overcome these limitations by approximating the true posterior distribution with a variational distribution constructed from categorical distributions and continuous relaxation techniques. Furthermore, we employ a star-shaped noise process to mitigate the drawbacks of traditional discrete diffusion models with absorbing states, demonstrating that our method performs comparably to continuous diffusion techniques with a lower GPU memory consumption. Our code is available at https://github.com/sony/g2d2.
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spellingShingle G2D2: Gradient-Guided Discrete Diffusion for Inverse Problem Solving
Murata, Naoki
Lai, Chieh-Hsin
Takida, Yuhta
Uesaka, Toshimitsu
Nguyen, Bac
Ermon, Stefano
Mitsufuji, Yuki
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Recent literature has effectively leveraged diffusion models trained on continuous variables as priors for solving inverse problems. Notably, discrete diffusion models with discrete latent codes have shown strong performance, particularly in modalities suited for discrete compressed representations, such as image and motion generation. However, their discrete and non-differentiable nature has limited their application to inverse problems formulated in continuous spaces. This paper presents a novel method for addressing linear inverse problems by leveraging generative models based on discrete diffusion as priors. We overcome these limitations by approximating the true posterior distribution with a variational distribution constructed from categorical distributions and continuous relaxation techniques. Furthermore, we employ a star-shaped noise process to mitigate the drawbacks of traditional discrete diffusion models with absorbing states, demonstrating that our method performs comparably to continuous diffusion techniques with a lower GPU memory consumption. Our code is available at https://github.com/sony/g2d2.
title G2D2: Gradient-Guided Discrete Diffusion for Inverse Problem Solving
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14710