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Poster

Diffusion Models as Cartoonists: The Curious Case of High Density Regions

Rafał Karczewski · Markus Heinonen · Vikas Garg

Hall 3 + Hall 2B #157
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Fri 25 Apr midnight PDT — 2:30 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

We investigate what kind of images lie in the high-density regions of diffusion models. We introduce a theoretical mode-tracking process capable of pinpointing the exact mode of the denoising distribution, and we propose a practical high-density sampler that consistently generates images of higher likelihood than usual samplers. Our empirical findings reveal the existence of significantly higher likelihood samples that typical samplers do not produce, often manifesting as cartoon-like drawings or blurry images depending on the noise level. Curiously, these patterns emerge in datasets devoid of such examples. We also present a novel approach to track sample likelihoods in diffusion SDEs, which remarkably incurs no additional computational cost. Code is available at https://github.com/Aalto-QuML/high-density-diffusion

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