Unraveling the Smoothness Properties of Diffusion Models: A Gaussian Mixture Perspective

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16418v2
• Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 03:59:47 GMT
• Title: Unraveling the Smoothness Properties of Diffusion Models: A Gaussian Mixture Perspective
• Authors: Yingyu Liang, Zhenmei Shi, Zhao Song, Yufa Zhou,
• Abstract summary: We provide a theoretical understanding of the Lipschitz continuity and second momentum properties of the diffusion process. Our results provide deeper theoretical insights into the dynamics of the diffusion process under common data distributions.
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• Abstract: Diffusion models have made rapid progress in generating high-quality samples across various domains. However, a theoretical understanding of the Lipschitz continuity and second momentum properties of the diffusion process is still lacking. In this paper, we bridge this gap by providing a detailed examination of these smoothness properties for the case where the target data distribution is a mixture of Gaussians, which serves as a universal approximator for smooth densities such as image data. We prove that if the target distribution is a $k$-mixture of Gaussians, the density of the entire diffusion process will also be a $k$-mixture of Gaussians. We then derive tight upper bounds on the Lipschitz constant and second momentum that are independent of the number of mixture components $k$. Finally, we apply our analysis to various diffusion solvers, both SDE and ODE based, to establish concrete error guarantees in terms of the total variation distance and KL divergence between the target and learned distributions. Our results provide deeper theoretical insights into the dynamics of the diffusion process under common data distributions.

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