Mind the Gap Between Synthetic and Real: Utilizing Transfer Learning to Probe the Boundaries of Stable Diffusion Generated Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03243v1
• Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 07:51:13 GMT
• Title: Mind the Gap Between Synthetic and Real: Utilizing Transfer Learning to Probe the Boundaries of Stable Diffusion Generated Data
• Authors: Leonhard Hennicke, Christian Medeiros Adriano, Holger Giese, Jan Mathias Koehler, Lukas Schott,
• Abstract summary: Student models show a significant drop in accuracy compared to models trained on real data. By training these layers using either real or synthetic data, we reveal that the drop mainly stems from the model's final layers. Our results suggest an improved trade-off between the amount of real training data used and the model's accuracy.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Generative foundation models like Stable Diffusion comprise a diverse spectrum of knowledge in computer vision with the potential for transfer learning, e.g., via generating data to train student models for downstream tasks. This could circumvent the necessity of collecting labeled real-world data, thereby presenting a form of data-free knowledge distillation. However, the resultant student models show a significant drop in accuracy compared to models trained on real data. We investigate possible causes for this drop and focus on the role of the different layers of the student model. By training these layers using either real or synthetic data, we reveal that the drop mainly stems from the model's final layers. Further, we briefly investigate other factors, such as differences in data-normalization between synthetic and real, the impact of data augmentations, texture vs.\ shape learning, and assuming oracle prompts. While we find that some of those factors can have an impact, they are not sufficient to close the gap towards real data. Building upon our insights that mainly later layers are responsible for the drop, we investigate the data-efficiency of fine-tuning a synthetically trained model with real data applied to only those last layers. Our results suggest an improved trade-off between the amount of real training data used and the model's accuracy. Our findings contribute to the understanding of the gap between synthetic and real data and indicate solutions to mitigate the scarcity of labeled real data.

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