PartDiff: Image Super-resolution with Partial Diffusion Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11926v1
• Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 22:11:23 GMT
• Title: PartDiff: Image Super-resolution with Partial Diffusion Models
• Authors: Kai Zhao, Alex Ling Yu Hung, Kaifeng Pang, Haoxin Zheng, and Kyunghyun Sung
• Abstract summary: Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have achieved impressive performance on various image generation tasks. DDPMs generate new data by iteratively denoising from random noise. But diffusion-based generative models suffer from high computational costs due to the large number of denoising steps. This paper proposes the Partial Diffusion Model (PartDiff), which diffuses the image to an intermediate latent state instead of pure random noise.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have achieved impressive performance on various image generation tasks, including image super-resolution. By learning to reverse the process of gradually diffusing the data distribution into Gaussian noise, DDPMs generate new data by iteratively denoising from random noise. Despite their impressive performance, diffusion-based generative models suffer from high computational costs due to the large number of denoising steps.In this paper, we first observed that the intermediate latent states gradually converge and become indistinguishable when diffusing a pair of low- and high-resolution images. This observation inspired us to propose the Partial Diffusion Model (PartDiff), which diffuses the image to an intermediate latent state instead of pure random noise, where the intermediate latent state is approximated by the latent of diffusing the low-resolution image. During generation, Partial Diffusion Models start denoising from the intermediate distribution and perform only a part of the denoising steps. Additionally, to mitigate the error caused by the approximation, we introduce "latent alignment", which aligns the latent between low- and high-resolution images during training. Experiments on both magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and natural images show that, compared to plain diffusion-based super-resolution methods, Partial Diffusion Models significantly reduce the number of denoising steps without sacrificing the quality of generation.

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