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Research: Diffusion models struggle with compositional generation tasks

A new research paper, "Catastrophic Compositional Generation: Why Vanilla Diffusion Models Fail to Extrapolate," published on arXiv, argues that standard conditional diffusion models struggle with compositional generation tasks. The authors posit that these models are often incapable of efficiently producing samples from target distributions that are combinations of source distributions, especially when the target distribution is out-of-distribution relative to the sources. While methods like Feynman-Kac correction can reduce approximation error, the paper highlights that score estimation error has a more detrimental impact, suggesting a need for alternative approaches. AI

IMPACT Highlights fundamental limitations in diffusion models for complex generative tasks, potentially guiding future research directions.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing limitations of existing AI models.

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Research: Diffusion models struggle with compositional generation tasks

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Duncan Soiffer, Chandler Squires, Yuan Guan, Jason Hartford, Pradeep Ravikumar ·

    Catastrophic Compositional Generation: Why Vanilla Diffusion Models Fail to Extrapolate

    arXiv:2606.23920v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The task of compositional generation involves using a conditional generative model, trained only on a subset of the possible conditions, to produce samples from compositionally-defined target distributions such as a geometric comb…

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Pradeep Ravikumar ·

    Catastrophic Compositional Generation: Why Vanilla Diffusion Models Fail to Extrapolate

    The task of compositional generation involves using a conditional generative model, trained only on a subset of the possible conditions, to produce samples from compositionally-defined target distributions such as a geometric combination of the source distributions. In this work,…