TACO (Trajectory-Aware Curvature Observation) is a framework designed to detect and mitigate memorized content in text-to-image diffusion models. It aggregates curvature responses along the late denoising trajectory and uses latent-guided spatial refinement to produce a memorization map that both localizes and guides targeted mitigation. Experiments show TACO outperforms existing localization methods and improves the balance between memorization suppression, semantic alignment, and perceptual quality.
arXiv:2609.39648v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models are typically viewed as stochastic processes that transform noise into data. We take a complementary perspective: a diffusion model...
The paper investigates why diffusion models, despite their practical success, can fully memorize training data when optimal. It shows that as training proceeds, the denoising objective causes overfitting at intermediate noise levels, creating a gap between validation and training performance. In a 2D toy model, this gap arises from the interplay between model error and the data distribution’s support density, leading to a smooth, generalizing flow field rather than exact recall of training points. The study also reveals that predictions from intermediate inference states become increasingly similar to training data in feature space, even as overall similarity to validation data remains unchanged.
arXiv:2610.34617v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models can sometimes reproduce examples from their training data, a phenomenon known as memorization. Existing memorization detection metho...
arXiv:2606. 31699v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have recently been proposed as interpretable tools for concept-level manipulation, under the assumption that isolated features can serve as controllable intervention points.
arXiv:2609.37974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate text by unmasking several tokens per step, but they are trained and sampled under different conditions. The m...
arXiv:2609.23658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite impressive visual quality, state-of-the-art video diffusion models often generate content that violates real-world physical laws. While exist...
arXiv:2607. 15693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We describe a model of perceptual inference in primary visual cortex (V1) equivalent to a minimal diffusion model whose function can be readily understood from its parameters.
arXiv:2512. 20963v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models excel at generating high-quality, diverse samples, yet they risk memorizing training data when overfit to the training objective.
Diffusion models can sometimes reproduce examples from their training data, a phenomenon known as memorization. Existing memorization detection methods for unconditional diffusion models typically ope...
arXiv:2605.21907v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Test-Time Scaling (TTS) paradigm offers a promising perspective for enhancing the generation performance of diffusion models. However, current solu...
We present TRACE-GS, an on-policy trajectory distillation framework that leverages privileged geometric conditioning at training time, thereby adapting a diffusion prior to sparse-view 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) restoration. Rather than pursuing increasingly sophisticated restoration architectures, we identify a more fundamental limitation shared by existing diffusion-based approaches: supervision at independently noised states does not cover those reached during inference.
Diffusion Trajectory Modeling (DTM) treats the evolving feature maps of diffusion models as temporally structured trajectories rather than static snapshots. By interpreting each spatial patch’s progression across multiple timesteps as a trajectory, DTM captures semantic correspondence cues that prior methods miss. Experiments on SPair-71k, SPair-U, and AP-10K demonstrate that DTM achieves strong performance, highlighting the semantic value embedded in the diffusion process’s temporal axis.