Improved Convergence of Score-Based Diffusion Models via Prediction-Correction
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Score-based generative models (SGMs) are powerful tools to sample from complex data distributions. Their underlying idea is to (i) run a forward process for time T_1 by adding noise to the data, (ii) estimate its score function, and (iii) use such estimate to run a reverse process. As the reverse process is initialized with the stationary distribution of the forward one, the existing analysis paradigm requires T_1→∞. This is however problematic: from a theoretical viewpoint, for a given precision of the score approximation, the convergence guarantee fails as T_1 diverges; from a practical viewpoint, a large T_1 increases computational costs and leads to error propagation. This paper addresses the issue by considering a version of the popular predictor-corrector scheme: after running the forward process, we first estimate the final distribution via an inexact Langevin dynamics and then revert the process. Our key technical contribution is to provide convergence guarantees in Wasserstein distance which require to run the forward process only for a finite time T_1. Our bounds exhibit a mild logarithmic dependence on the input dimension and the subgaussian norm of the target distribution, have minimal assumptions on the data, and require only to control the L^2 loss on the score approximation, which is the quantity minimized in practice.
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