It's Never Too Late: Noise Optimization for Collapse Recovery in Trained Diffusion Models

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Main Authors: Harrington, Anne, Koepke, A. Sophia, Karthik, Shyamgopal, Darrell, Trevor, Efros, Alexei A.
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Published: 2025
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author Harrington, Anne
Koepke, A. Sophia
Karthik, Shyamgopal
Darrell, Trevor
Efros, Alexei A.
author_facet Harrington, Anne
Koepke, A. Sophia
Karthik, Shyamgopal
Darrell, Trevor
Efros, Alexei A.
contents Contemporary text-to-image models exhibit a surprising degree of mode collapse, as can be seen when sampling several images given the same text prompt. Previous work has attempted to address this issue by steering the model using guidance mechanisms, or by generating a large pool of candidates and refining them. In this work, we take a different direction and aim for diversity in generations via noise optimization. Specifically, we show that a simple noise optimization objective can mitigate mode collapse while preserving the fidelity of the base model. We also analyze the frequency characteristics of the noise and show that alternative noise initializations with different frequency profiles can improve both optimization and search. Our experiments demonstrate that noise optimization yields superior results in terms of generation quality and diversity.
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spellingShingle It's Never Too Late: Noise Optimization for Collapse Recovery in Trained Diffusion Models
Harrington, Anne
Koepke, A. Sophia
Karthik, Shyamgopal
Darrell, Trevor
Efros, Alexei A.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Contemporary text-to-image models exhibit a surprising degree of mode collapse, as can be seen when sampling several images given the same text prompt. Previous work has attempted to address this issue by steering the model using guidance mechanisms, or by generating a large pool of candidates and refining them. In this work, we take a different direction and aim for diversity in generations via noise optimization. Specifically, we show that a simple noise optimization objective can mitigate mode collapse while preserving the fidelity of the base model. We also analyze the frequency characteristics of the noise and show that alternative noise initializations with different frequency profiles can improve both optimization and search. Our experiments demonstrate that noise optimization yields superior results in terms of generation quality and diversity.
title It's Never Too Late: Noise Optimization for Collapse Recovery in Trained Diffusion Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00090