Summary Statistical Thermodynamics of Generative Diffusion Models arxiv.org
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The paper explores generative diffusion models, highlighting their second-order phase transitions and their correlation with associative memory networks.
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- Generative diffusion models are a type of deep generative model that have achieved high performance in image, sound, and video generation.
- These models are inspired by the physics of non-equilibrium statistical physics and formalize generation as the probabilistic inverse of a forward stochastic process.
- Generative diffusion models can undergo second-order phase transitions, which correspond to generative spontaneous symmetry breaking.
- The diffusion time parameter in these models plays a role similar to temperature in classical statistical mechanics.
- The generative dynamics minimizes a regularized Helmholtz free energy, connecting diffusion models to other energy-based models in machine learning and theoretical neuroscience.
- Training diffusion models as denoising autoencoders involves approximating the score function using a deep network trained on a large set of samples.
- Generative diffusion models can be reformulated using the language of equilibrium statistical mechanics, with the diffusion time parameter playing a similar role to temperature.
- Examples of simple toy models are used to gain insights into the thermodynamic properties of generative diffusion models.
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This paper examines generative diffusion models, showing they have second-order phase transitions and a connection to associative memory networks.
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This paper explores the statistical thermodynamics of generative diffusion models, which have been successful in various areas of generative modeling. The authors demonstrate that these models undergo second-order phase transitions, which correspond to symmetry breaking phenomena. They also analyze the connection between diffusion models and associative memory networks.
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This paper examines the statistical thermodynamics of generative diffusion models, which have been successful in various areas of generative modeling. The authors demonstrate that these models undergo second-order phase transitions, which correspond to symmetry breaking phenomena. They argue that this instability is at the core of the models' generative capabilities and can be described by mean field critical exponents. The authors also analyze the connection between diffusion models and associative memory networks in light of their thermodynamic formulations. Generative diffusion models, also known as score-based models, are a type of deep generative model that have achieved high performance in image, sound, and video generation. These models are inspired by non-equilibrium statistical physics and formalize generation as the probabilistic inverse of a forward stochastic process. The authors show that many features of generative diffusion models can be understood using equilibrium statistical physics.
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This paper examines the statistical thermodynamics of generative diffusion models, which have been successful in various areas of generative modeling. The authors demonstrate that these models undergo second-order phase transitions, which correspond to symmetry breaking phenomena. They argue that this instability is at the core of the models' generative capabilities and can be described by mean field critical exponents. The authors also analyze the connection between diffusion models and associative memory networks in light of their thermodynamic formulations.
Generative diffusion models, also known as score-based models, are a type of deep generative model that have achieved high performance in image, sound, and video generation. These models are inspired by non-equilibrium statistical physics and formalize generation as the probabilistic inverse of a forward stochastic process. The authors show that many features of generative diffusion models can be understood using equilibrium statistical physics.
The authors define a family of Boltzmann distributions over the noise-free states during the diffusion process. By reformulating the models in terms of equilibrium statistical mechanics, they demonstrate that generative diffusion models can undergo second-order phase transitions. These phase transitions correspond to generative spontaneous symmetry breaking. The diffusion time parameter in these models plays a role similar to temperature in classical statistical mechanics.
The authors obtain a self-consistent equation of state for the system, which corresponds to the fixed-point equation of the generative dynamics. They also show that the generative dynamics minimizes a regularized Helmholtz free energy, connecting diffusion models to other energy-based models in machine learning and theoretical neuroscience.
The paper provides preliminary information on generative diffusion models, explaining that the goal is to sample from a potentially complex target distribution. The authors discuss training diffusion models as denoising autoencoders and provide equations for the marginals and the inverse equation for generating samples from the target distribution.
The authors reformulate generative diffusion models using the language of equilibrium statistical mechanics. They define Hamiltonian functions on the set of microstates during the diffusion process and interpret the conditional probability of the data given a noisy state as a Boltzmann distribution. The diffusion time parameter plays a similar role to temperature in classical statistical mechanics.
The authors provide examples of simple toy models to draw general insights about the thermodynamic properties of generative diffusion models. They discuss the “two deltas” model, the discrete dataset model, and the hyper-spherical manifold model. These examples illustrate how the partition function and the Hamiltonian can be calculated for different target distributions.
The authors also discuss the free energy, magnetization, and order parameters of generative diffusion models.
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This paper explores the statistical thermodynamics of generative diffusion models, which have been successful in various areas of generative modeling. While these models are inspired by non-equilibrium physics, the authors show that many aspects of them can be understood using equilibrium statistical mechanics. The authors demonstrate that generative diffusion models undergo second-order phase transitions, which correspond to symmetry breaking phenomena. They argue that this instability is at the core of the models' generative capabilities and can be described by mean field critical exponents. The authors also analyze the connection between diffusion models and associative memory networks in light of their thermodynamic formulations.
Generative modeling is a sub-field of machine learning that focuses on automatically generating structured data such as images, videos, and written language. Generative diffusion models, also known as score-based models, are a type of deep generative model that have achieved high performance in image, sound, and video generation. These models are inspired by the physics of non-equilibrium statistical physics and formalize generation as the probabilistic inverse of a forward stochastic process. The process gradually transforms a target distribution into a simple base distribution, such as Gaussian white noise.
In this paper, the authors show that many features of generative diffusion models can be understood using equilibrium statistical physics. They define a family of Boltzmann distributions over the noise-free states, which represent the unobservable microstates during the diffusion process. By reformulating the models in terms of equilibrium statistical mechanics, the authors demonstrate that generative diffusion models can undergo second-order phase transitions of the mean-field type. These phase transitions correspond to generative spontaneous symmetry breaking and have been discussed in previous work. The diffusion time parameter in these models plays a role similar to temperature in classical statistical mechanics.
The authors obtain a self-consistent equation of state for the system, which corresponds to the fixed-point equation of the generative dynamics. They also show that the generative dynamics minimizes a regularized Helmholtz free energy, which connects diffusion models to other energy-based models in machine learning and theoretical neuroscience. This connection suggests potential links with the free energy principle in theoretical neuroscience, which characterizes the stochastic dynamics of biological neural systems.
The paper provides preliminary information on generative diffusion models, explaining that the goal of diffusion modeling is to sample from a potentially complex target distribution. The authors consider the forward process of diffusion modeling as a mathematical Brownian motion and simplify the derivations by assuming this process. They provide equations for the marginals and the inverse equation for generating samples from the target distribution. The score function, which approximates the score of the target distribution, can be obtained using a deep network trained on a large set of samples.
The authors also discuss training diffusion models as denoising autoencoders. The score function can be approximated by training a deep network to minimize a functional loss. The network is parameterized by weights and biases, and the functional loss measures the discrepancy between the network's output and the noise-corrupted state. Once trained, synthetic samples can be generated by integrating the inverse equation using numerical methods.
The paper then introduces the concept of diffusion models as systems in equilibrium. The authors show that generative diffusion models can be reformulated using the language of equilibrium statistical mechanics. They define Hamiltonian functions on the set of microstates during the diffusion process and interpret the conditional probability of the data given a noisy state as a Boltzmann distribution. The thermodynamic system defined by this distribution does not have a true temperature parameter, but the diffusion time parameter plays a similar role to temperature in classical statistical mechanics.
The authors provide examples of simple toy models to draw general insights about the thermodynamic properties of generative diffusion models. They discuss the "two deltas" model, the discrete dataset model, and the hyper-spherical manifold model. These examples illustrate how the partition function and the Hamiltonian can be calculated for different target distributions.
The authors then discuss the free energy, magnetization, and order parameters of generative diffusion models. They