The paper investigates diffusion models trained in a lazy high‑dimensional regime, extending benign overfitting theory to generative settings. By analyzing denoising score matching in a vector‑valued RKHS with an inner‑product kernel, the authors derive exact risk trajectories under gradient flow when the number of samples scales proportionally with dimensionality. These trajectories reveal three distinct phases—spectral generalization, noise‑dominated interpolation, and empirical Bayes memorization—whose interplay shapes the distribution of generated samples.
By Hugo Latourelle-Vigeant, Sinho Chewi, Aram-Alexandre Pooladian, John Sous, Theodor Misiakiewicz
Score-based Generative Models (SGMs) have achieved impressive performance in data generation across a wide range of applications. While the statistical properties of their sampling procedures are increasingly well understood, the optimization dynamics underlying their training remain less explored.
arXiv:2306.08757v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality samples, their latent variables typically lack semantic meaning and are not suitable...
By Yingheng Wang, Yair Schiff, Aaron Gokaslan, Weishen Pan, Fei Wang, Christopher De Sa, Volodymyr Kuleshov
arXiv:2501. 09876v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative modeling aims to generate new data samples that resemble a given dataset.
By Wonjun Lee, Riley C. W. O'Neill, Dongmian Zou, Jeff Calder, Gilad Lerman
Normalizing flows are powerful generative models that learn an invertible mapping between complex data distributions and simple latent distributions, typically a standard normal density. However, this choice of latent density can impose unnecessary complexity on the learned flow transformation due to the topological mismatch between the latent and data densities, leading to slower training and suboptimal performance.
arXiv:2607. 19332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models have undergone many generations of evolution, from VAEs/GANs to diffusion/flow matching.
By Chirag Vashist, Ke Li