LPNSR: Prior-Enhanced Diffusion Image Super-Resolution via LR-Guided Noise Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21045v3
• Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:08:40 GMT
• Title: LPNSR: Prior-Enhanced Diffusion Image Super-Resolution via LR-Guided Noise Prediction
• Abstract summary: Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from corresponding low-resolution (LR) observations.<n>The state-of-the-art residual-shifting diffusion framework efficient 4-step inference suffers from severe degradation performance in compact sampling trajectories.<n>We propose a prior-enhanced efficient diffusion framework to address these issues.
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• Abstract: Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR), which aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from corresponding low-resolution (LR) observations, faces a fundamental trade-off between inference efficiency and reconstruction quality. The state-of-the-art residual-shifting diffusion framework achieves efficient 4-step inference, yet suffers from severe performance degradation in compact sampling trajectories. This is mainly attributed to two core limitations: the inherent suboptimality of unconstrained random Gaussian noise in intermediate steps, which leads to error accumulation and insufficient LR prior guidance, and the initialization bias caused by naive bicubic upsampling. In this paper, we propose LPNSR, a prior-enhanced efficient diffusion framework to address these issues. We first mathematically derive the closed-form analytical solution of the optimal intermediate noise for the residual-shifting diffusion paradigm, and accordingly design an LR-guided multi-input-aware noise predictor to replace random Gaussian noise, embedding LR structural priors into the reverse process while fully preserving the framework's core efficient residual-shifting mechanism. We further mitigate initial bias with a high-quality pre-upsampling network to optimize the diffusion starting point. With a compact 4-step trajectory, LPNSR can be optimized in an end-to-end manner. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LPNSR achieves state-of-the-art perceptual performance on both synthetic and real-world datasets, without relying on any large-scale text-to-image priors. The source code of our method can be found at https://github.com/Faze-Hsw/LPNSR.

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