Spectral Collapse in Diffusion Inversion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13303v1
• Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:53:21 GMT
• Title: Spectral Collapse in Diffusion Inversion
• Authors: Nicolas Bourriez, Alexandre Verine, Auguste Genovesio,
• Abstract summary: Conditional diffusion inversion fails when the source domain is spectrally sparse compared to the target domain.<n>We propose Orthogonal Variance Guidance (OVG), an inference-time method that corrects the ODE dynamics to enforce the theoretical Gaussian noise magnitude.<n>OVG effectively restores photorealistic textures while preserving structural fidelity.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Conditional diffusion inversion provides a powerful framework for unpaired image-to-image translation. However, we demonstrate through an extensive analysis that standard deterministic inversion (e.g. DDIM) fails when the source domain is spectrally sparse compared to the target domain (e.g., super-resolution, sketch-to-image). In these contexts, the recovered latent from the input does not follow the expected isotropic Gaussian distribution. Instead it exhibits a signal with lower frequencies, locking target sampling to oversmoothed and texture-poor generations. We term this phenomenon spectral collapse. We observe that stochastic alternatives attempting to restore the noise variance tend to break the semantic link to the input, leading to structural drift. To resolve this structure-texture trade-off, we propose Orthogonal Variance Guidance (OVG), an inference-time method that corrects the ODE dynamics to enforce the theoretical Gaussian noise magnitude within the null-space of the structural gradient. Extensive experiments on microscopy super-resolution (BBBC021) and sketch-to-image (Edges2Shoes) demonstrate that OVG effectively restores photorealistic textures while preserving structural fidelity.

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