Score-of-Mixture Training: Training One-Step Generative Models Made Simple via Score Estimation of Mixture Distributions

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Autori principali: Jayashankar, Tejas, Ryu, J. Jon, Wornell, Gregory
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author Jayashankar, Tejas
Ryu, J. Jon
Wornell, Gregory
author_facet Jayashankar, Tejas
Ryu, J. Jon
Wornell, Gregory
contents We propose Score-of-Mixture Training (SMT), a novel framework for training one-step generative models by minimizing a class of divergences called the $α$-skew Jensen--Shannon divergence. At its core, SMT estimates the score of mixture distributions between real and fake samples across multiple noise levels. Similar to consistency models, our approach supports both training from scratch (SMT) and distillation using a pretrained diffusion model, which we call Score-of-Mixture Distillation (SMD). It is simple to implement, requires minimal hyperparameter tuning, and ensures stable training. Experiments on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet 64x64 show that SMT/SMD are competitive with and can even outperform existing methods.
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spellingShingle Score-of-Mixture Training: Training One-Step Generative Models Made Simple via Score Estimation of Mixture Distributions
Jayashankar, Tejas
Ryu, J. Jon
Wornell, Gregory
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
We propose Score-of-Mixture Training (SMT), a novel framework for training one-step generative models by minimizing a class of divergences called the $α$-skew Jensen--Shannon divergence. At its core, SMT estimates the score of mixture distributions between real and fake samples across multiple noise levels. Similar to consistency models, our approach supports both training from scratch (SMT) and distillation using a pretrained diffusion model, which we call Score-of-Mixture Distillation (SMD). It is simple to implement, requires minimal hyperparameter tuning, and ensures stable training. Experiments on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet 64x64 show that SMT/SMD are competitive with and can even outperform existing methods.
title Score-of-Mixture Training: Training One-Step Generative Models Made Simple via Score Estimation of Mixture Distributions
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09609