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New RB-LDC method enhances noise robustness in latent diffusion models

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Researchers have developed RB-LDC, a novel method for improving the robustness of latent diffusion models to noise. By introducing an invertible linear layer that balances redundancy across different latent directions, RB-LDC optimizes the allocation of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) based on the decoder's sensitivity. This approach, instantiated with Jacobian-based sensitivity estimates, demonstrated improved reconstruction quality and reduced Fréchet inception distance (FID) on ImageNet compared to standard isotropic coding, particularly in noisy conditions during sampling. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Hyunseok Jeong, Jaeho Jeon, Young-Sik Kim ·

    RB-LDC: Redundancy-Balanced Latent Coding for Noise-Robust Diffusion Latents

    arXiv:2611.13955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent diffusion models decode approximately correct latents, making decoder sensitivity to perturbations relevant to image quality. After whitening, forward diffusion corrupts every direction at the same signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…

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