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Main Authors: Spagnoletti, Alessio, Prost, Jean, Almansa, Andrés, Papadakis, Nicolas, Pereyra, Marcelo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12615
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author Spagnoletti, Alessio
Prost, Jean
Almansa, Andrés
Papadakis, Nicolas
Pereyra, Marcelo
author_facet Spagnoletti, Alessio
Prost, Jean
Almansa, Andrés
Papadakis, Nicolas
Pereyra, Marcelo
contents Text-to-image latent diffusion models (LDMs) have recently emerged as powerful generative models with great potential for solving inverse problems in imaging. However, leveraging such models in a Plug & Play (PnP), zero-shot manner remains challenging because it requires identifying a suitable text prompt for the unknown image of interest. Also, existing text-to-image PnP approaches are highly computationally expensive. We herein address these challenges by proposing a novel PnP inference paradigm specifically designed for embedding generative models within stochastic inverse solvers, with special attention to Latent Consistency Models (LCMs), which distill LDMs into fast generators. We leverage our framework to propose LAtent consisTency INverse sOlver (LATINO), the first zero-shot PnP framework to solve inverse problems with priors encoded by LCMs. Our conditioning mechanism avoids automatic differentiation and reaches SOTA quality in as little as 8 neural function evaluations. As a result, LATINO delivers remarkably accurate solutions and is significantly more memory and computationally efficient than previous approaches. We then embed LATINO within an empirical Bayesian framework that automatically calibrates the text prompt from the observed measurements by marginal maximum likelihood estimation. Extensive experiments show that prompt self-calibration greatly improves estimation, allowing LATINO with PRompt Optimization to define new SOTAs in image reconstruction quality and computational efficiency. The code is available at https://latino-pro.github.io
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spellingShingle LATINO-PRO: LAtent consisTency INverse sOlver with PRompt Optimization
Spagnoletti, Alessio
Prost, Jean
Almansa, Andrés
Papadakis, Nicolas
Pereyra, Marcelo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Text-to-image latent diffusion models (LDMs) have recently emerged as powerful generative models with great potential for solving inverse problems in imaging. However, leveraging such models in a Plug & Play (PnP), zero-shot manner remains challenging because it requires identifying a suitable text prompt for the unknown image of interest. Also, existing text-to-image PnP approaches are highly computationally expensive. We herein address these challenges by proposing a novel PnP inference paradigm specifically designed for embedding generative models within stochastic inverse solvers, with special attention to Latent Consistency Models (LCMs), which distill LDMs into fast generators. We leverage our framework to propose LAtent consisTency INverse sOlver (LATINO), the first zero-shot PnP framework to solve inverse problems with priors encoded by LCMs. Our conditioning mechanism avoids automatic differentiation and reaches SOTA quality in as little as 8 neural function evaluations. As a result, LATINO delivers remarkably accurate solutions and is significantly more memory and computationally efficient than previous approaches. We then embed LATINO within an empirical Bayesian framework that automatically calibrates the text prompt from the observed measurements by marginal maximum likelihood estimation. Extensive experiments show that prompt self-calibration greatly improves estimation, allowing LATINO with PRompt Optimization to define new SOTAs in image reconstruction quality and computational efficiency. The code is available at https://latino-pro.github.io
title LATINO-PRO: LAtent consisTency INverse sOlver with PRompt Optimization
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12615