Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
Jonathan Ho, Ajay N. Jain, Pieter Abbeel
Abstract
We present high quality image synthesis results using diffusion probabilistic models, a class of latent variable models inspired by considerations from nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Our best results are obtained by training on a weighted variational bound designed according to a novel connection between diffusion probabilistic models and denoising score matching with Langevin dynamics, and our models naturally admit a progressive lossy decompression scheme that can be interpreted as a generalization of autoregressive decoding. On the unconditional CIFAR10 dataset, we obtain an Inception score of 9.46 and a state-of-the-art FID score of 3.17. On 256x256 LSUN, we obtain sample quality similar to ProgressiveGAN.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{NEURIPS2020_4c5bcfec,
author = {Ho, Jonathan and Jain, Ajay and Abbeel, Pieter},
booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
editor = {H. Larochelle and M. Ranzato and R. Hadsell and M.F. Balcan and H. Lin},
pages = {6840--6851},
publisher = {Curran Associates, Inc.},
title = {Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models},
url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2020/file/4c5bcfec8584af0d967f1ab10179ca4b-Paper.pdf},
volume = {33},
year = {2020}
}