Improving Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems Using Optimal Posterior Covariance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02149v2
• Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 10:39:45 GMT
• Title: Improving Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems Using Optimal Posterior Covariance
• Authors: Xinyu Peng, Ziyang Zheng, Wenrui Dai, Nuoqian Xiao, Chenglin Li, Junni Zou, Hongkai Xiong,
• Abstract summary: Recent diffusion models provide a promising zero-shot solution to noisy linear inverse problems without retraining for specific inverse problems. Inspired by this finding, we propose to improve recent methods by using more principled covariance determined by maximum likelihood estimation.
• Score: 52.093434664236014
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent diffusion models provide a promising zero-shot solution to noisy linear inverse problems without retraining for specific inverse problems. In this paper, we reveal that recent methods can be uniformly interpreted as employing a Gaussian approximation with hand-crafted isotropic covariance for the intractable denoising posterior to approximate the conditional posterior mean. Inspired by this finding, we propose to improve recent methods by using more principled covariance determined by maximum likelihood estimation. To achieve posterior covariance optimization without retraining, we provide general plug-and-play solutions based on two approaches specifically designed for leveraging pre-trained models with and without reverse covariance. We further propose a scalable method for learning posterior covariance prediction based on representation with orthonormal basis. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed methods significantly enhance reconstruction performance without requiring hyperparameter tuning.

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