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Autori principali: Xu, Yanbo, Wu, Yu, Park, Sungjae, Zhou, Zhizhuo, Tulsiani, Shubham
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01184
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author Xu, Yanbo
Wu, Yu
Park, Sungjae
Zhou, Zhizhuo
Tulsiani, Shubham
author_facet Xu, Yanbo
Wu, Yu
Park, Sungjae
Zhou, Zhizhuo
Tulsiani, Shubham
contents We present a mechanism to steer the sampling diversity of denoising diffusion and flow matching models, allowing users to sample from a sharper or broader distribution than the training distribution. We build on the observation that these models leverage (learned) score functions of noisy data distributions for sampling and show that rescaling these allows one to effectively control a 'local' sampling temperature. Notably, this approach does not require any finetuning or alterations to training strategy, and can be applied to any off-the-shelf model and is compatible with both deterministic and stochastic samplers. We first validate our framework on toy 2D data, and then demonstrate its application for diffusion models trained across five disparate tasks -- image generation, pose estimation, depth prediction, robot manipulation, and protein design. We find that across these tasks, our approach allows sampling from sharper (or flatter) distributions, yielding performance gains e.g., depth prediction models benefit from sampling more likely depth estimates, whereas image generation models perform better when sampling a slightly flatter distribution.
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spellingShingle Temporal Score Rescaling for Temperature Sampling in Diffusion and Flow Models
Xu, Yanbo
Wu, Yu
Park, Sungjae
Zhou, Zhizhuo
Tulsiani, Shubham
Machine Learning
We present a mechanism to steer the sampling diversity of denoising diffusion and flow matching models, allowing users to sample from a sharper or broader distribution than the training distribution. We build on the observation that these models leverage (learned) score functions of noisy data distributions for sampling and show that rescaling these allows one to effectively control a 'local' sampling temperature. Notably, this approach does not require any finetuning or alterations to training strategy, and can be applied to any off-the-shelf model and is compatible with both deterministic and stochastic samplers. We first validate our framework on toy 2D data, and then demonstrate its application for diffusion models trained across five disparate tasks -- image generation, pose estimation, depth prediction, robot manipulation, and protein design. We find that across these tasks, our approach allows sampling from sharper (or flatter) distributions, yielding performance gains e.g., depth prediction models benefit from sampling more likely depth estimates, whereas image generation models perform better when sampling a slightly flatter distribution.
title Temporal Score Rescaling for Temperature Sampling in Diffusion and Flow Models
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01184