Understanding Structure Preserving Diffusion Models in Distribution Learning

Główne pojęcia

The authors introduce structure-preserving diffusion processes for learning distributions with additional structure, such as group symmetries, and validate their efficacy through empirical studies. The main thesis is that these models can achieve improved performance over existing methods by preserving symmetry and equivariance.

Streszczenie

Structure Preserving Diffusion Models are introduced to learn distributions with group symmetries, validated through empirical studies on synthetic and real-world datasets. The models aim to achieve improved performance by maintaining symmetry and equivariance properties. The study explores theoretical conditions for diffusion processes to preserve symmetry and presents novel methods like SPDiff+WT and SPDiff+OC. Additionally, a regularizer SPDiff+Reg is proposed to enhance equivariant properties. Results show that the models with theoretical guarantees outperform existing methods in terms of sample quality and distribution invariance.

Statystyki

"Empirical studies" are used to validate the developed models.
"Improved performance" is achieved over existing methods.
"Symmetry" and "equivariance" are key properties maintained by the models.
Theoretical conditions for diffusion processes to preserve symmetry are explored.

Cytaty

"We introduce structure-preserving diffusion processes for learning distributions with additional structure, such as group symmetries."
"The proposed models aim to achieve improved performance over existing methods by preserving symmetry and equivariance properties."

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Structure Preserving Diffusion Models

by Haoye Lu,Spe... o arxiv.org 03-01-2024

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.19369.pdf

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