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NoiseRater: Meta-Learned Noise Valuation for Diffusion Model Training

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arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Noise in Diffusion Models Is a Learnable Input

The paper argues that the concrete random noise used in diffusion models is not merely a passive perturbation but a learnable input that can be exploited by the model. By analyzing how clean data and realized noise jointly form the noisy input, the authors show that the model can learn regularities in the data or in the noise structure, and that these two routes can interact. Experiments on MNIST and CIFAR‑10 using pseudorandom streams demonstrate that structured‑noise training can reduce prediction loss, but this advantage disappears when test noise is replaced with IID noise, indicating that the learned dependence is tied to the specific noise structure.

By Shengzhi Deng, Chenqi Ye, Yanze Guo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

The Emergence of Reproducibility and Generalizability in Diffusion Models

arXiv:2310. 05264v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this work, we investigate an intriguing and prevalent phenomenon of diffusion models which we term as "consistent model reproducibility": given the same starting noise input and a deterministic sampler, different diffusion models often yield remarkably similar outputs.

By Huijie Zhang, Jinfan Zhou, Yifu Lu, Minzhe Guo, Peng Wang, Liyue Shen, Qing Qu
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Paradoxical noise preference in RNNs

arXiv:2601. 04539v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In recurrent neural networks (RNNs) used to model biological neural networks, noise is typically introduced during training to emulate biological variability and regularize learning.

By Noah Eckstein, Manoj Srinivasan