Wavelet Score-Based Generative ModelingDownload PDF

Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 14 Oct 2022NeurIPS 2022 AcceptReaders: Everyone
Keywords: score-based generative model, diffusion model, wavelet decomposition, cascading algorithm, acceleration
TL;DR: Wavelet decomposition of the data yields whitened datasets. Using score-based diffusion model on these datasets provably accelerate diffusion models.
Abstract: Score-based generative models (SGMs) synthesize new data samples from Gaussian white noise by running a time-reversed Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) whose drift coefficient depends on some probabilistic score. The discretization of such SDEs typically requires a large number of time steps and hence a high computational cost. This is because of ill-conditioning properties of the score that we analyze mathematically. Previous approaches have relied on multiscale generation to considerably accelerate SGMs. We explain how this acceleration results from an implicit factorization of the data distribution into a product of conditional probabilities of wavelet coefficients across scales. The resulting Wavelet Score-based Generative Model (WSGM) synthesizes wavelet coefficients with the same number of time steps at all scales, and its time complexity therefore grows linearly with the image size. This is proved mathematically for Gaussian distributions, and shown numerically for physical processes at phase transition and natural image datasets.
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