The paper discusses the emergence of text-to-image diffusion models for image generation. It introduces “AlignProp,” a method to align diffusion models with reward functions through backpropagation during the denoising process. AlignProp outperforms alternative methods in optimizing diffusion models, achieving higher rewards in fewer training steps and improving both sampling efficiency and computational effectiveness. The approach could be extended to diffusion-based language models in the future.
Introducing AlignProp: A Practical AI Solution for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Probabilistic diffusion models have become the standard for generative modeling in continuous domains. One of the leading models in text-to-image generation is DALLE, which has been trained on extensive web-scale datasets. However, controlling the behavior of these models in downstream tasks has been a challenge due to their unsupervised nature.
Recent research has introduced “AlignProp,” a method that aligns diffusion models with reward functions through backpropagation. This approach mitigates high memory requirements by fine-tuning low-rank adapter weight modules and implementing gradient checkpointing.
Benefits of AlignProp:
- Outperforms alternative methods by achieving higher rewards in fewer training steps
- Conceptually simple and straightforward for optimizing diffusion models based on differentiable reward functions
- Improves sampling efficiency and computational effectiveness
- Optimizes a wide range of reward functions, even for tasks that are difficult to define solely through prompts
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