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DPM-Solver: A Fast ODE Solver for Diffusion Probabilistic Model Sampling in Around 10 Steps
Cheng Lu · Yuhao Zhou · Fan Bao · Jianfei Chen · Chongxuan LI · Jun Zhu

Wed Dec 07 05:00 PM -- 07:00 PM (PST) @
in Lightning Talks 4A-3 »

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) are emerging powerful generative models. Despite their high-quality generation performance, DPMs still suffer from their slow sampling as they generally need hundreds or thousands of sequential function evaluations (steps) of large neural networks to draw a sample. Sampling from DPMs can be viewed alternatively as solving the corresponding diffusion ordinary differential equations (ODEs). In this work, we propose an exact formulation of the solution of diffusion ODEs. The formulation analytically computes the linear part of the solution, rather than leaving all terms to black-box ODE solvers as adopted in previous works. By applying change-of-variable, the solution can be equivalently simplified to an exponentially weighted integral of the neural network. Based on our formulation, we propose DPM-Solver, a fast dedicated high-order solver for diffusion ODEs with the convergence order guarantee. DPM-Solver is suitable for both discrete-time and continuous-time DPMs without any further training. Experimental results show that DPM-Solver can generate high-quality samples in only 10 to 20 function evaluations on various datasets. We achieve 4.70 FID in 10 function evaluations and 2.87 FID in 20 function evaluations on the CIFAR10 dataset, and a 4~16x speedup compared with previous state-of-the-art training-free samplers on various datasets.

Keywords: score-based generative models · diffusion probabilistic models · ODE solver · fast sampling

Author Information

Cheng Lu (Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University)
Yuhao Zhou (Tsinghua University)
Fan Bao (Tsinghua University)
Jianfei Chen (Tsinghua University)
Chongxuan LI (Renmin University of China)

Assistant Professor @ RUC

Jun Zhu (Tsinghua University)

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