Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 16:15 in V3-201
Adaptive denoising diffusion modelling via random time reversal
A talk in the Oberseminar Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics series by
Lukas Trottner from Universität Stuttgart
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We introduce a new class of generative diffusion models that, unlike conventional denoising diffusion models, achieve a time-homogeneous structure for both the noising and denoising processes, allowing the number of steps to adaptively adjust based on the noise level. This is accomplished by conditioning the forward process using Doob's h-transform, which terminates the process at a suitable sampling distribution at a random time. The model is particularly well suited for generating data with lower intrinsic dimensions, as the termination criterion simplifies to a first hitting rule. A key feature of the model is its adaptability to the target data, enabling a variety of downstream tasks using a pre-trained unconditional generative model. We highlight this point by demonstrating how our generative model may be used as an unsupervised learning algorithm: in high dimensions the model outputs with high probability the metric projection of a noisy observation $y$ of some latent data point $x$ onto the lower-dimensional support of the data – which we don't assume to be analytically accessible but to be only represented by the unlabeled training data set of the generative model.
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