Convergence Of Consistency Model With Multistep Sampling Under General Data Assumptions

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Hauptverfasser: Chen, Yiding, Zhang, Yiyi, Oertell, Owen, Sun, Wen
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author Chen, Yiding
Zhang, Yiyi
Oertell, Owen
Sun, Wen
author_facet Chen, Yiding
Zhang, Yiyi
Oertell, Owen
Sun, Wen
contents Diffusion models accomplish remarkable success in data generation tasks across various domains. However, the iterative sampling process is computationally expensive. Consistency models are proposed to learn consistency functions to map from noise to data directly, which allows one-step fast data generation and multistep sampling to improve sample quality. In this paper, we study the convergence of consistency models when the self-consistency property holds approximately under the training distribution. Our analysis requires only mild data assumption and applies to a family of forward processes. When the target data distribution has bounded support or has tails that decay sufficiently fast, we show that the samples generated by the consistency model are close to the target distribution in Wasserstein distance; when the target distribution satisfies some smoothness assumption, we show that with an additional perturbation step for smoothing, the generated samples are close to the target distribution in total variation distance. We provide two case studies with commonly chosen forward processes to demonstrate the benefit of multistep sampling.
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spellingShingle Convergence Of Consistency Model With Multistep Sampling Under General Data Assumptions
Chen, Yiding
Zhang, Yiyi
Oertell, Owen
Sun, Wen
Machine Learning
Diffusion models accomplish remarkable success in data generation tasks across various domains. However, the iterative sampling process is computationally expensive. Consistency models are proposed to learn consistency functions to map from noise to data directly, which allows one-step fast data generation and multistep sampling to improve sample quality. In this paper, we study the convergence of consistency models when the self-consistency property holds approximately under the training distribution. Our analysis requires only mild data assumption and applies to a family of forward processes. When the target data distribution has bounded support or has tails that decay sufficiently fast, we show that the samples generated by the consistency model are close to the target distribution in Wasserstein distance; when the target distribution satisfies some smoothness assumption, we show that with an additional perturbation step for smoothing, the generated samples are close to the target distribution in total variation distance. We provide two case studies with commonly chosen forward processes to demonstrate the benefit of multistep sampling.
title Convergence Of Consistency Model With Multistep Sampling Under General Data Assumptions
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03194