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Main Authors: Chen, Tianrong, Zheng, Huangjie, Berthelot, David, Gu, Jiatao, Susskind, Josh, Zhai, Shuangfei
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21757
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author Chen, Tianrong
Zheng, Huangjie
Berthelot, David
Gu, Jiatao
Susskind, Josh
Zhai, Shuangfei
author_facet Chen, Tianrong
Zheng, Huangjie
Berthelot, David
Gu, Jiatao
Susskind, Josh
Zhai, Shuangfei
contents Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in generating high-fidelity images but typically suffer from inefficient sampling. Many solver designs and noise scheduling strategies have been proposed to dramatically improve sampling speeds. In this paper, we introduce a new sampling method that is up to $186\%$ faster than the current state of the art solver for comparative FID on ImageNet512. This new sampling method is training-free and uses an ordinary differential equation (ODE) solver. The key to our method resides in using higher-dimensional initial noise, allowing to produce more detailed samples with less function evaluations from existing pretrained diffusion models. In addition, by design our solver allows to control the level of detail through a simple hyper-parameter at no extra computational cost. We present how our approach leverages momentum dynamics by establishing a fundamental equivalence between momentum diffusion models and conventional diffusion models with respect to their training paradigms. Moreover, we observe the use of higher-dimensional noise naturally exhibits characteristics similar to stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Finally, we demonstrate strong performances on a set of representative pretrained diffusion models, including EDM, EDM2, and Stable-Diffusion 3, which cover models in both pixel and latent spaces, as well as class and text conditional settings. The code is available at https://github.com/apple/ml-tada.
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spellingShingle TADA: Improved Diffusion Sampling with Training-free Augmented Dynamics
Chen, Tianrong
Zheng, Huangjie
Berthelot, David
Gu, Jiatao
Susskind, Josh
Zhai, Shuangfei
Machine Learning
Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in generating high-fidelity images but typically suffer from inefficient sampling. Many solver designs and noise scheduling strategies have been proposed to dramatically improve sampling speeds. In this paper, we introduce a new sampling method that is up to $186\%$ faster than the current state of the art solver for comparative FID on ImageNet512. This new sampling method is training-free and uses an ordinary differential equation (ODE) solver. The key to our method resides in using higher-dimensional initial noise, allowing to produce more detailed samples with less function evaluations from existing pretrained diffusion models. In addition, by design our solver allows to control the level of detail through a simple hyper-parameter at no extra computational cost. We present how our approach leverages momentum dynamics by establishing a fundamental equivalence between momentum diffusion models and conventional diffusion models with respect to their training paradigms. Moreover, we observe the use of higher-dimensional noise naturally exhibits characteristics similar to stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Finally, we demonstrate strong performances on a set of representative pretrained diffusion models, including EDM, EDM2, and Stable-Diffusion 3, which cover models in both pixel and latent spaces, as well as class and text conditional settings. The code is available at https://github.com/apple/ml-tada.
title TADA: Improved Diffusion Sampling with Training-free Augmented Dynamics
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21757