我们提出了位扩散：一种简单而通用的方法，用于通过连续扩散模型生成离散数据。我们方法背后的主要思想是首先将离散数据表示为二进制位，然后训练连续扩散模型，以将这些位模拟为实数，我们称为模拟位。为了生成样品，模型首先生成模拟位，然后将其阈值阈值以获得表示离散变量的位。我们进一步提出了两种简单的技术，即自我调节和不对称的时间间隔，从而导致样本质量的显着改善。尽管它很简单，但提出的方法可以在离散图像生成和图像字幕任务中实现强大的性能。对于离散图像生成，我们在CIFAR-10（具有3K离散的8位代币）和Imagenet-64x64（具有12K离散的8位代币）上都显着改善了先前的最新技术，超过了最好的自动回归性自动回应。样品质量（通过FID衡量）和效率的模型。对于MS-Coco数据集上的图像字幕，与自回归模型相比，我们的方法可实现竞争成果。

Panoptic segmentation assigns semantic and instance ID labels to every pixel of an image. As permutations of instance IDs are also valid solutions, the task requires learning of high-dimensional one-to-many mapping. As a result, state-of-the-art approaches use customized architectures and task-specific loss functions. We formulate panoptic segmentation as a discrete data generation problem, without relying on inductive bias of the task. A diffusion model based on analog bits is used to model panoptic masks, with a simple, generic architecture and loss function. By simply adding past predictions as a conditioning signal, our method is capable of modeling video (in a streaming setting) and thereby learns to track object instances automatically. With extensive experiments, we demonstrate that our generalist approach can perform competitively to state-of-the-art specialist methods in similar settings.

DeNoising扩散模型代表了计算机视觉中最新的主题，在生成建模领域表现出了显着的结果。扩散模型是一个基于两个阶段的深层生成模型，一个正向扩散阶段和反向扩散阶段。在正向扩散阶段，通过添加高斯噪声，输入数据在几个步骤中逐渐受到干扰。在反向阶段，模型的任务是通过学习逐步逆转扩散过程来恢复原始输入数据。尽管已知的计算负担，即由于采样过程中涉及的步骤数量，扩散模型对生成样品的质量和多样性得到了广泛赞赏。在这项调查中，我们对视觉中应用的denoising扩散模型的文章进行了全面综述，包括该领域的理论和实际贡献。首先，我们识别并介绍了三个通用扩散建模框架，这些框架基于扩散概率模型，噪声调节得分网络和随机微分方程。我们进一步讨论了扩散模型与其他深层生成模型之间的关系，包括变异自动编码器，生成对抗网络，基于能量的模型，自回归模型和正常流量。然后，我们介绍了计算机视觉中应用的扩散模型的多角度分类。最后，我们说明了扩散模型的当前局限性，并设想了一些有趣的未来研究方向。

Score-based modeling through stochastic differential equations (SDEs) has provided a new perspective on diffusion models, and demonstrated superior performance on continuous data. However, the gradient of the log-likelihood function, i.e., the score function, is not properly defined for discrete spaces. This makes it non-trivial to adapt \textcolor{\cdiff}{the score-based modeling} to categorical data. In this paper, we extend diffusion models to discrete variables by introducing a stochastic jump process where the reverse process denoises via a continuous-time Markov chain. This formulation admits an analytical simulation during backward sampling. To learn the reverse process, we extend score matching to general categorical data and show that an unbiased estimator can be obtained via simple matching of the conditional marginal distributions. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method on a set of synthetic and real-world music and image benchmarks.

作为生成部件作为自回归模型的向量量化变形式自动化器（VQ-VAE）的集成在图像生成上产生了高质量的结果。但是，自回归模型将严格遵循采样阶段的逐步扫描顺序。这导致现有的VQ系列模型几乎不会逃避缺乏全球信息的陷阱。连续域中的去噪扩散概率模型（DDPM）显示了捕获全局背景的能力，同时产生高质量图像。在离散状态空间中，一些作品已经证明了执行文本生成和低分辨率图像生成的可能性。我们认为，在VQ-VAE的富含内容的离散视觉码本的帮助下，离散扩散模型还可以利用全局上下文产生高保真图像，这补偿了沿像素空间的经典自回归模型的缺陷。同时，离散VAE与扩散模型的集成解决了传统的自回归模型的缺点是超大的，以及在生成图像时需要在采样过程中的过度时间的扩散模型。结果发现所生成的图像的质量严重依赖于离散的视觉码本。广泛的实验表明，所提出的矢量量化离散扩散模型（VQ-DDM）能够实现与低复杂性的顶层方法的相当性能。它还展示了在没有额外培训的图像修复任务方面与自回归模型量化的其他矢量突出的优势。

非自动进取的生成变压器最近表现出令人印象深刻的图像产生性能，并且比自动回归对应物更快。但是，从视觉令牌的真实关节分布中进行的最佳并行采样仍然是一个开放的挑战。在本文中，我们介绍了代币批评，这是一种辅助模型，用于指导非自动性生成变压器的采样。鉴于掩盖和重建的真实图像，对代币批判性模型进行了训练，以区分哪种视觉令牌属于原始图像，哪些是由生成变压器采样的。在非自动回归迭代采样过程中，令牌批评者用于选择要接受的代币以及拒绝和重新取样的代币。再加上最先进的生成变压器令牌 - 批判性可显着提高其性能，并且在挑战性的课堂条件化成像生成中，就产生的图像质量和多样性之间的权衡取舍了最近的扩散模型和gan 。

虽然扩散概率模型可以产生高质量的图像内容，但仍然存在高分辨率图像的关键限制及其相关的高计算要求。最近的矢量量化图像模型已经克服了图像分辨率的这种限制，而是通过从之前的元素 - 明智的自回归采样生成令牌时，这是对图像分辨率的速度和单向的。相比之下，在本文中，我们提出了一种新的离散扩散概率模型，其通过使用无约束的变压器架构作为骨干来支持矢量量化令牌的并行预测。在培训期间，令牌以订单不可知的方式随机掩盖，变压器学会预测原始令牌。这种矢量量化令牌预测的并行性反过来促进了在计算费用的一小部分下的全球一致的高分辨率和多样性图像的无条件生成。以这种方式，我们可以产生超过原始训练集样本的图像分辨率，而另外提供每个图像似然估计（从生成的对抗方法的差点）。我们的方法在密度方面实现了最先进的结果（Lsun卧室：1.51; Lsun Churches：1.12; FFHQ：1.20）和覆盖范围（Lsun卧室：0.83; Lsun Churches：0.73; FFHQ：0.80），并执行竞争对手（LSUN卧室：3.64; LSUN教堂：4.07; FFHQ：6.11）在计算和减少训练套件要求方面提供优势。

We present high quality image synthesis results using diffusion probabilistic models, a class of latent variable models inspired by considerations from nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Our best results are obtained by training on a weighted variational bound designed according to a novel connection between diffusion probabilistic models and denoising score matching with Langevin dynamics, and our models naturally admit a progressive lossy decompression scheme that can be interpreted as a generalization of autoregressive decoding. On the unconditional CIFAR10 dataset, we obtain an Inception score of 9.46 and a state-of-the-art FID score of 3.17. On 256x256 LSUN, we obtain sample quality similar to ProgressiveGAN. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/hojonathanho/diffusion.

我们介绍了文本到图像生成的矢量量化扩散（VQ-扩散）模型。该方法基于矢量量化变分性AutoEncoder（VQ-VAE），其潜像通过最近开发的去噪扩散概率（DDPM）的条件变体为基础。我们发现这种潜在空间方法非常适合于图像到图像生成任务，因为它不仅消除了具有现有方法的单向偏差，还允许我们结合掩模和更换的扩散策略，以避免积累错误，这是现有方法的严重问题。我们的实验表明，与具有类似数量的参数数量的传统自回归（AR）模型相比，VQ扩散产生明显更好的文本到图像生成结果。与以前的基于GAN的文本到图像方法相比，我们的VQ扩散可以通过大边缘处理更复杂的场景并提高合成的图像质量。最后，我们表明我们的方法中的图像生成计算可以通过Reparameter化进行高效。利用传统的AR方法，文本到图像生成时间随输出图像分辨率线性增加，因此即使对于正常尺寸图像也是相当耗时的。 VQ-扩散使我们能够在质量和速度之间实现更好的权衡。我们的实验表明，具有Reparameterization的VQ扩散模型比传统的AR方法快15倍，同时实现更好的图像质量。

We show that diffusion models can achieve image sample quality superior to the current state-of-the-art generative models. We achieve this on unconditional image synthesis by finding a better architecture through a series of ablations. For conditional image synthesis, we further improve sample quality with classifier guidance: a simple, compute-efficient method for trading off diversity for fidelity using gradients from a classifier. We achieve an FID of 2.97 on ImageNet 128×128, 4.59 on ImageNet 256×256, and 7.72 on ImageNet 512×512, and we match BigGAN-deep even with as few as 25 forward passes per sample, all while maintaining better coverage of the distribution. Finally, we find that classifier guidance combines well with upsampling diffusion models, further improving FID to 3.94 on ImageNet 256×256 and 3.85 on ImageNet 512×512. We release our code at https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion.

Recent advances on text-to-image generation have witnessed the rise of diffusion models which act as powerful generative models. Nevertheless, it is not trivial to exploit such latent variable models to capture the dependency among discrete words and meanwhile pursue complex visual-language alignment in image captioning. In this paper, we break the deeply rooted conventions in learning Transformer-based encoder-decoder, and propose a new diffusion model based paradigm tailored for image captioning, namely Semantic-Conditional Diffusion Networks (SCD-Net). Technically, for each input image, we first search the semantically relevant sentences via cross-modal retrieval model to convey the comprehensive semantic information. The rich semantics are further regarded as semantic prior to trigger the learning of Diffusion Transformer, which produces the output sentence in a diffusion process. In SCD-Net, multiple Diffusion Transformer structures are stacked to progressively strengthen the output sentence with better visional-language alignment and linguistical coherence in a cascaded manner. Furthermore, to stabilize the diffusion process, a new self-critical sequence training strategy is designed to guide the learning of SCD-Net with the knowledge of a standard autoregressive Transformer model. Extensive experiments on COCO dataset demonstrate the promising potential of using diffusion models in the challenging image captioning task. Source code is available at \url{https://github.com/YehLi/xmodaler/tree/master/configs/image_caption/scdnet}.

We present the Recurrent Interface Network (RIN), a neural net architecture that allocates computation adaptively to the input according to the distribution of information, allowing it to scale to iterative generation of high-dimensional data. Hidden units of RINs are partitioned into the interface, which is locally connected to inputs, and latents, which are decoupled from inputs and can exchange information globally. The RIN block selectively reads from the interface into latents for high-capacity processing, with incremental updates written back to the interface. Stacking multiple blocks enables effective routing across local and global levels. While routing adds overhead, the cost can be amortized in recurrent computation settings where inputs change gradually while more global context persists, such as iterative generation using diffusion models. To this end, we propose a latent self-conditioning technique that "warm-starts" the latents at each iteration of the generation process. When applied to diffusion models operating directly on pixels, RINs yield state-of-the-art image and video generation without cascades or guidance, while being domain-agnostic and up to 10$\times$ more efficient compared to specialized 2D and 3D U-Nets.

We explore a new class of diffusion models based on the transformer architecture. We train latent diffusion models of images, replacing the commonly-used U-Net backbone with a transformer that operates on latent patches. We analyze the scalability of our Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) through the lens of forward pass complexity as measured by Gflops. We find that DiTs with higher Gflops -- through increased transformer depth/width or increased number of input tokens -- consistently have lower FID. In addition to possessing good scalability properties, our largest DiT-XL/2 models outperform all prior diffusion models on the class-conditional ImageNet 512x512 and 256x256 benchmarks, achieving a state-of-the-art FID of 2.27 on the latter.

Can continuous diffusion models bring the same performance breakthrough on natural language they did for image generation? To circumvent the discrete nature of text data, we can simply project tokens in a continuous space of embeddings, as is standard in language modeling. We propose Self-conditioned Embedding Diffusion, a continuous diffusion mechanism that operates on token embeddings and allows to learn flexible and scalable diffusion models for both conditional and unconditional text generation. Through qualitative and quantitative evaluation, we show that our text diffusion models generate samples comparable with those produced by standard autoregressive language models - while being in theory more efficient on accelerator hardware at inference time. Our work paves the way for scaling up diffusion models for text, similarly to autoregressive models, and for improving performance with recent refinements to continuous diffusion.

基于扩散的生成模型已经证明了感知上令人印象深刻的合成能力，但是它们也可以是基于可能性的模型吗？我们以肯定的方式回答了这一点，并介绍了一个基于扩散的生成模型家族，该模型可以在标准图像密度估计基准上获得最先进的可能性。与其他基于扩散的模型不同，我们的方法允许与其他模型的其余部分共同对噪声时间表进行有效优化。我们表明，根据扩散数据的信噪比，变异下限（VLB）简化为非常短的表达，从而改善了我们对该模型类别的理论理解。使用这种见解，我们证明了文献中提出的几个模型之间的等效性。此外，我们表明连续时间VLB在噪声方面不变，除了其端点处的信噪比。这使我们能够学习一个噪声时间表，以最大程度地减少所得VLB估计器的差异，从而更快地优化。将这些进步与建筑改进相结合，我们获得了图像密度估计基准的最先进的可能性，超过了多年来主导这些基准测试的自回旋模型，通常优化了很多年。此外，我们展示了如何将模型用作BITS背包压缩方案的一部分，并展示了接近理论最佳的无损压缩率。代码可在https://github.com/google-research/vdm上找到。

The image captioning task is typically realized by an auto-regressive method that decodes the text tokens one by one. We present a diffusion-based captioning model, dubbed the name DDCap, to allow more decoding flexibility. Unlike image generation, where the output is continuous and redundant with a fixed length, texts in image captions are categorical and short with varied lengths. Therefore, naively applying the discrete diffusion model to text decoding does not work well, as shown in our experiments. To address the performance gap, we propose several key techniques including best-first inference, concentrated attention mask, text length prediction, and image-free training. On COCO without additional caption pre-training, it achieves a CIDEr score of 117.8, which is +5.0 higher than the auto-regressive baseline with the same architecture in the controlled setting. It also performs +26.8 higher CIDEr score than the auto-regressive baseline (230.3 v.s.203.5) on a caption infilling task. With 4M vision-language pre-training images and the base-sized model, we reach a CIDEr score of 125.1 on COCO, which is competitive to the best well-developed auto-regressive frameworks. The code is available at https://github.com/buxiangzhiren/DDCap.

过去十年已经开发了各种各样的深度生成模型。然而，这些模型通常同时努力解决三个关键要求，包括：高样本质量，模式覆盖和快速采样。我们称之为这些要求所征收的挑战是生成的学习Trielemma，因为现有模型经常为他人交易其中一些。特别是，去噪扩散模型表明了令人印象深刻的样本质量和多样性，但它们昂贵的采样尚未允许它们在许多现实世界应用中应用。在本文中，我们认为这些模型中的缓慢采样基本上归因于去噪步骤中的高斯假设，这些假设仅针对小型尺寸的尺寸。为了使得具有大步骤的去噪，从而减少去噪步骤的总数，我们建议使用复杂的多模态分布来模拟去噪分布。我们引入了去噪扩散生成的对抗网络（去噪扩散GANS），其使用多模式条件GaN模拟每个去噪步骤。通过广泛的评估，我们表明去噪扩散GAN获得原始扩散模型的样本质量和多样性，而在CIFAR-10数据集中是2000 $ \时代。与传统的GAN相比，我们的模型表现出更好的模式覆盖和样本多样性。据我们所知，去噪扩散GaN是第一模型，可在扩散模型中降低采样成本，以便允许它们廉价地应用于现实世界应用。项目页面和代码：https://nvlabs.github.io/denoising-diffusion-gan

Diffusion models have quickly become the go-to paradigm for generative modelling of perceptual signals (such as images and sound) through iterative refinement. Their success hinges on the fact that the underlying physical phenomena are continuous. For inherently discrete and categorical data such as language, various diffusion-inspired alternatives have been proposed. However, the continuous nature of diffusion models conveys many benefits, and in this work we endeavour to preserve it. We propose CDCD, a framework for modelling categorical data with diffusion models that are continuous both in time and input space. We demonstrate its efficacy on several language modelling tasks.

利用深度学习的最新进展，文本到图像生成模型目前具有吸引公众关注的优点。其中两个模型Dall-E 2和Imagen已经证明，可以从图像的简单文本描述中生成高度逼真的图像。基于一种称为扩散模型的新型图像生成方法，文本对图像模型可以生产许多不同类型的高分辨率图像，其中人类想象力是唯一的极限。但是，这些模型需要大量的计算资源来训练，并处理从互联网收集的大量数据集。此外，代码库和模型均未发布。因此，它可以防止AI社区尝试这些尖端模型，从而使其结果复制变得复杂，即使不是不可能。在本文中，我们的目标是首先回顾这些模型使用的不同方法和技术，然后提出我们自己的文本模型模型实施。高度基于DALL-E 2，我们引入了一些轻微的修改，以应对所引起的高计算成本。因此，我们有机会进行实验，以了解这些模型的能力，尤其是在低资源制度中。特别是，我们提供了比Dall-e 2的作者（包括消融研究）更深入的分析。此外，扩散模型使用所谓的指导方法来帮助生成过程。我们引入了一种新的指导方法，该方法可以与其他指导方法一起使用，以提高图像质量。最后，我们的模型产生的图像质量相当好，而不必维持最先进的文本对图像模型的重大培训成本。

矢量量化变量自动编码器（VQ-VAE）是基于数据的离散潜在表示的生成模型，其中输入映射到有限的学习嵌入式集合。要生成新样品，必须对离散状态进行自动介绍的先验分布。分别地。这一先验通常非常复杂，并导致生成缓慢。在这项工作中，我们提出了一个新模型，以同时训练先验和编码器/解码器网络。我们在连续编码的向量和非信息性先验分布之间建立扩散桥。然后将潜在离散状态作为这些连续向量的随机函数。我们表明，我们的模型与迷你imagenet和Cifar数据集的自动回归先验具有竞争力，并且在优化和采样方面都有效。我们的框架还扩展了标准VQ-VAE，并可以启用端到端培训。