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Autores principales: Yan, Song, Zhai, Wei, Wang, Chenfeng, Bi, Xinliang, Yang, Jian, Cai, Yancheng, Zhang, Yusen, Lan, Yunwei, Zhang, Tao, Xiong, GuanYe, Li, Min, Zha, Zheng-Jun
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Publicado: 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07756
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author Yan, Song
Zhai, Wei
Wang, Chenfeng
Bi, Xinliang
Yang, Jian
Cai, Yancheng
Zhang, Yusen
Lan, Yunwei
Zhang, Tao
Xiong, GuanYe
Li, Min
Zha, Zheng-Jun
author_facet Yan, Song
Zhai, Wei
Wang, Chenfeng
Bi, Xinliang
Yang, Jian
Cai, Yancheng
Zhang, Yusen
Lan, Yunwei
Zhang, Tao
Xiong, GuanYe
Li, Min
Zha, Zheng-Jun
contents Diffusion models start generation from an isotropic Gaussian latent, yet changing only the random seed can lead to large differences in prompt faithfulness, composition, and visual quality. We study this seed sensitivity through the semantic map from initial noise to generated meaning. Although the sampling flow is locally invertible, the subsequent semantic projection is many-to-one, inducing a degenerate pullback semi-metric on the latent space: most local directions are nearly semantic-invariant, while semantic-sensitive variation is concentrated in a much smaller horizontal subspace. This provides an explanatory geometric view of the seed lottery. Motivated by this view, we introduce a training-free prompt-residual seed-shaping procedure. Rather than claiming to recover the exact horizontal space, the method uses a single high-noise cold-start prompt residual as a model-coupled proxy, injects only its tangential component, and retracts the seed to the original Gaussian radius shell. This keeps the initialization prior-compatible while adding only one conditional/unconditional probe before standard sampling. Across multiple generation benchmarks, the method improves alignment and quality metrics over standard sampling, supporting both the practical value of the proxy and the explanatory relevance of semantic anisotropy.
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spellingShingle Determinism of Randomness: Prompt-Residual Seed Shaping for Diffusion Generation
Yan, Song
Zhai, Wei
Wang, Chenfeng
Bi, Xinliang
Yang, Jian
Cai, Yancheng
Zhang, Yusen
Lan, Yunwei
Zhang, Tao
Xiong, GuanYe
Li, Min
Zha, Zheng-Jun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Diffusion models start generation from an isotropic Gaussian latent, yet changing only the random seed can lead to large differences in prompt faithfulness, composition, and visual quality. We study this seed sensitivity through the semantic map from initial noise to generated meaning. Although the sampling flow is locally invertible, the subsequent semantic projection is many-to-one, inducing a degenerate pullback semi-metric on the latent space: most local directions are nearly semantic-invariant, while semantic-sensitive variation is concentrated in a much smaller horizontal subspace. This provides an explanatory geometric view of the seed lottery. Motivated by this view, we introduce a training-free prompt-residual seed-shaping procedure. Rather than claiming to recover the exact horizontal space, the method uses a single high-noise cold-start prompt residual as a model-coupled proxy, injects only its tangential component, and retracts the seed to the original Gaussian radius shell. This keeps the initialization prior-compatible while adding only one conditional/unconditional probe before standard sampling. Across multiple generation benchmarks, the method improves alignment and quality metrics over standard sampling, supporting both the practical value of the proxy and the explanatory relevance of semantic anisotropy.
title Determinism of Randomness: Prompt-Residual Seed Shaping for Diffusion Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07756