Stable and Near-Reversible Diffusion ODE Solvers for Image Editing

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Autores principales: Barancikova, Barbora, Shmelev, Daniil, Salvi, Cristopher
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author Barancikova, Barbora
Shmelev, Daniil
Salvi, Cristopher
author_facet Barancikova, Barbora
Shmelev, Daniil
Salvi, Cristopher
contents The inversion of diffusion models plays a central role in image editing. Algebraically reversible ODE solvers provide an appealing approach to diffusion inversion for text-guided image editing, by eliminating the inversion error inherent in DDIM-based editing pipelines. However, empirical results indicate that reversibility alone is insufficient. As edits require larger semantic or visual changes, reversible diffusion solvers often exhibit instabilities and suffer sharp drops in output quality. In this paper, we show that the trade-off between exact reversibility and numerical stability manifests empirically as a trade-off between background preservation and prompt alignment in image editing. We then investigate the use of near-reversible Runge-Kutta methods as a more stable alternative to exactly reversible diffusion schemes. When combined with a vector-field smoothing strategy, the resulting approach improves edit fidelity, remains stable under large edits, and largely retains the background-preservation benefits of reversible solvers.
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spellingShingle Stable and Near-Reversible Diffusion ODE Solvers for Image Editing
Barancikova, Barbora
Shmelev, Daniil
Salvi, Cristopher
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
The inversion of diffusion models plays a central role in image editing. Algebraically reversible ODE solvers provide an appealing approach to diffusion inversion for text-guided image editing, by eliminating the inversion error inherent in DDIM-based editing pipelines. However, empirical results indicate that reversibility alone is insufficient. As edits require larger semantic or visual changes, reversible diffusion solvers often exhibit instabilities and suffer sharp drops in output quality. In this paper, we show that the trade-off between exact reversibility and numerical stability manifests empirically as a trade-off between background preservation and prompt alignment in image editing. We then investigate the use of near-reversible Runge-Kutta methods as a more stable alternative to exactly reversible diffusion schemes. When combined with a vector-field smoothing strategy, the resulting approach improves edit fidelity, remains stable under large edits, and largely retains the background-preservation benefits of reversible solvers.
title Stable and Near-Reversible Diffusion ODE Solvers for Image Editing
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16399