arXiv AI By Bahareh Tolooshams, Aditi Chandrashekar, Rayhan Zirvi, Abbas Mammadov, Jiachen Yao, Chuwei Wang, Anima Anandkumar

EquiReg: Equivariance Regularized Diffusion for Inverse Problems

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EquiReg introduces an equivariance‑regularized diffusion framework that penalises sampling trajectories deviating from the data manifold, thereby improving posterior sampling for inverse problems. By formalising manifold‑preferential equivariant functions—naturally arising from data augmentation or inherent symmetries—EquiReg guides diffusion steps toward symmetry‑preserving regions of the solution space. The method shows consistent gains in both linear and nonlinear image restoration tasks and partial differential equation solving, especially under reduced sampling and measurement consistency steps, and is available as open‑source code.

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