Direct distribution rewards preserve diversity during diffusion model fine-tuning

The authors regularize generated samples themselves rather than only constraining the dynamics that produce them.

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Romeo Passaro · Jeongjae Lee · Jong Chul Ye · Michael M. Bronstein · Yoshua Bengio · Alexander Tong · +1 more

University of Oxford · AITHYRA · KAIST · Mila – Québec AI Institute · Université de Montréal

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Passaro et al.

Conventional reward fine-tuning often uses a reverse-KL penalty, implemented as a squared difference between the fine-tuned and pretrained models’ velocity fields.

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