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The Journey, Not the Destination: How Data Guides Diffusion Models

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arxiv 2312.06205 v1 pith:E4Z4YTHR submitted 2023-12-11 cs.CV cs.LG

The Journey, Not the Destination: How Data Guides Diffusion Models

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Diffusion models trained on large datasets can synthesize photo-realistic images of remarkable quality and diversity. However, attributing these images back to the training data-that is, identifying specific training examples which caused an image to be generated-remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose a framework that: (i) provides a formal notion of data attribution in the context of diffusion models, and (ii) allows us to counterfactually validate such attributions. Then, we provide a method for computing these attributions efficiently. Finally, we apply our method to find (and evaluate) such attributions for denoising diffusion probabilistic models trained on CIFAR-10 and latent diffusion models trained on MS COCO. We provide code at https://github.com/MadryLab/journey-TRAK .

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