Convergence of denoising diffusion models under the manifold hypothesis
Authors that are also TMLR Expert Reviewers: ~Valentin_De_Bortoli1
Abstract: Denoising diffusion models are a recent class of generative models exhibiting state-of-the-art performance in image and audio synthesis. Such models approximate the time-reversal of a forward noising process from a target distribution to a reference measure, which is usually Gaussian. Despite their strong empirical results, the theoretical analysis of such models remains limited. In particular, all current approaches crucially assume that the target density admits a density w.r.t. the Lebesgue measure. This does not cover settings where the target distribution is supported on a lower-dimensional manifold or is given by some empirical distribution. In this paper, we bridge this gap by providing the first convergence results for diffusion models in this setting. In particular, we provide quantitative bounds on the Wasserstein distance of order one between the target data distribution and the generative distribution of the diffusion model.
Certifications: Expert Certification
Submission Length: Regular submission (no more than 12 pages of main content)
Assigned Action Editor: ~Murat_A_Erdogdu1
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Submission Number: 350
Loading