Enhancing Sample Generation of Diffusion Models using Noise Level Correction

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Main Authors: Abuduweili, Abulikemu, Yuan, Chenyang, Liu, Changliu, Permenter, Frank
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Published: 2024
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author Abuduweili, Abulikemu
Yuan, Chenyang
Liu, Changliu
Permenter, Frank
author_facet Abuduweili, Abulikemu
Yuan, Chenyang
Liu, Changliu
Permenter, Frank
contents The denoising process of diffusion models can be interpreted as an approximate projection of noisy samples onto the data manifold. Moreover, the noise level in these samples approximates their distance to the underlying manifold. Building on this insight, we propose a novel method to enhance sample generation by aligning the estimated noise level with the true distance of noisy samples to the manifold. Specifically, we introduce a noise level correction network, leveraging a pre-trained denoising network, to refine noise level estimates during the denoising process. Additionally, we extend this approach to various image restoration tasks by integrating task-specific constraints, including inpainting, deblurring, super-resolution, colorization, and compressed sensing. Experimental results demonstrate that our method significantly improves sample quality in both unconstrained and constrained generation scenarios. Notably, the proposed noise level correction framework is compatible with existing denoising schedulers (e.g., DDIM), offering additional performance improvements.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Sample Generation of Diffusion Models using Noise Level Correction
Abuduweili, Abulikemu
Yuan, Chenyang
Liu, Changliu
Permenter, Frank
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
The denoising process of diffusion models can be interpreted as an approximate projection of noisy samples onto the data manifold. Moreover, the noise level in these samples approximates their distance to the underlying manifold. Building on this insight, we propose a novel method to enhance sample generation by aligning the estimated noise level with the true distance of noisy samples to the manifold. Specifically, we introduce a noise level correction network, leveraging a pre-trained denoising network, to refine noise level estimates during the denoising process. Additionally, we extend this approach to various image restoration tasks by integrating task-specific constraints, including inpainting, deblurring, super-resolution, colorization, and compressed sensing. Experimental results demonstrate that our method significantly improves sample quality in both unconstrained and constrained generation scenarios. Notably, the proposed noise level correction framework is compatible with existing denoising schedulers (e.g., DDIM), offering additional performance improvements.
title Enhancing Sample Generation of Diffusion Models using Noise Level Correction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05488