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Improving Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems using Manifold Constraints
Hyungjin Chung · Byeongsu Sim · Dohoon Ryu · Jong Chul Ye

Wed Nov 30 09:00 AM -- 11:00 AM (PST) @ Hall J #220
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Recently, diffusion models have been used to solve various inverse problems in an unsupervised manner with appropriate modifications to the sampling process. However, the current solvers, which recursively apply a reverse diffusion step followed by a projection-based measurement consistency step, often produce sub-optimal results. By studying the generative sampling path, here we show that current solvers throw the sample path off the data manifold, and hence the error accumulates. To address this, we propose an additional correction term inspired by the manifold constraint, which can be used synergistically with the previous solvers to make the iterations close to the manifold. The proposed manifold constraint is straightforward to implement within a few lines of code, yet boosts the performance by a surprisingly large margin. With extensive experiments, we show that our method is superior to the previous methods both theoretically and empirically, producing promising results in many applications such as image inpainting, colorization, and sparse-view computed tomography. Code available https://github.com/HJ-harry/MCG_diffusion

Keywords: Inverse Problem · Diffusion model · Manifold constraint
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Author Information

Hyungjin Chung (KAIST)

Research intern @LANL Ph.D. student @KAIST Deep generative models, Diffusion models, Inverse problems

Byeongsu Sim (KAIST)
Dohoon Ryu (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)
Jong Chul Ye (KAIST AI)

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