ADT: Tuning Diffusion Models with Adversarial Supervision

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11423v1
• Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:37:50 GMT
• Title: ADT: Tuning Diffusion Models with Adversarial Supervision
• Authors: Dazhong Shen, Guanglu Song, Yi Zhang, Bingqi Ma, Lujundong Li, Dongzhi Jiang, Zhuofan Zong, Yu Liu,
• Abstract summary: Diffusion models have achieved outstanding image generation by reversing a forward noising process to approximate true data distributions.<n>We propose Adrial Diffusion Tuning (ADT) to stimulate the inference process during optimization and align the final outputs with training data.<n>ADT features a siamese-network discriminator with a fixed pre-trained backbone and lightweight trainable parameters.
• Score: 16.974169058917443
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Diffusion models have achieved outstanding image generation by reversing a forward noising process to approximate true data distributions. During training, these models predict diffusion scores from noised versions of true samples in a single forward pass, while inference requires iterative denoising starting from white noise. This training-inference divergences hinder the alignment between inference and training data distributions, due to potential prediction biases and cumulative error accumulation. To address this problem, we propose an intuitive but effective fine-tuning framework, called Adversarial Diffusion Tuning (ADT), by stimulating the inference process during optimization and aligning the final outputs with training data by adversarial supervision. Specifically, to achieve robust adversarial training, ADT features a siamese-network discriminator with a fixed pre-trained backbone and lightweight trainable parameters, incorporates an image-to-image sampling strategy to smooth discriminative difficulties, and preserves the original diffusion loss to prevent discriminator hacking. In addition, we carefully constrain the backward-flowing path for back-propagating gradients along the inference path without incurring memory overload or gradient explosion. Finally, extensive experiments on Stable Diffusion models (v1.5, XL, and v3), demonstrate that ADT significantly improves both distribution alignment and image quality.

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