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arxiv: 2411.18929 · v2 · submitted 2024-11-28 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI· cs.LG

VIPaint: Image Inpainting with Pre-Trained Diffusion Models via Variational Inference

Sakshi Agarwal , Gabriel Hope , Jimin Heo , Erik B. Sudderth This is my paper

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keywords image inpaintingdiffusion modelsvariational inferencelatent diffusionconditional generationinverse problemsMarkov approximation
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A hierarchical variational inference method approximates the diffusion posterior to enable inpainting with pre-trained models.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops VIPaint to condition pre-trained diffusion models on masked or corrupted images without retraining. It frames inpainting as sampling from the true conditional posterior and approximates that posterior with a non-Gaussian Markov chain optimized by hierarchical variational inference. This produces diverse, high-quality completions even for large masks and for efficient latent diffusion models. The same procedure also handles related inverse problems such as deblurring and superresolution. Existing baselines either fail to match the correct conditional distribution or cannot be applied to latent models.

Core claim

VIPaint introduces a hierarchical variational inference algorithm that optimizes a non-Gaussian Markov approximation of the true diffusion posterior, enabling pre-trained diffusion models to generate diverse high-quality imputations for masked images and other inverse problems, outperforming prior approaches especially on large masks and latent diffusion models.

What carries the argument

Hierarchical variational inference that optimizes a non-Gaussian Markov approximation to the true conditional diffusion posterior

If this is right

  • Produces diverse high-quality imputations for inpainting tasks with pre-trained diffusion models.
  • Works with state-of-the-art text-conditioned latent diffusion models without modification.
  • Extends directly to other inverse problems such as deblurring and superresolution.
  • Avoids the need to retrain or fine-tune the underlying diffusion model for each new conditioning task.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same variational approximation could be applied to condition diffusion models on other forms of partial data such as sparse measurements or low-resolution inputs.
  • Tighter variational families or more steps in the hierarchy might further reduce the gap to the true posterior on challenging masks.
  • Because the method operates on the latent space of existing models, it could transfer to video or 3-D diffusion models with only minor changes to the Markov structure.

Load-bearing premise

The hierarchical variational inference procedure produces a sufficiently accurate non-Gaussian Markov approximation to the true conditional diffusion posterior for the inpainting and inverse-problem tasks considered.

What would settle it

A controlled experiment on small images where the true conditional posterior can be sampled exactly, showing whether VIPaint samples match that posterior more closely than baselines or diverge on large masks.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2411.18929 by Erik B. Sudderth, Gabriel Hope, Jimin Heo, Sakshi Agarwal.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: VIPaint inpainting with a pretrained, unconditional LDM [Rombach et al., 2022a] of LSUN [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Red-Diff [Mardani et al., 2023] defines its posterior directly on the space of unobserved [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Top: The hierarchical approximate posterior of VIPaint is defined over a coarse sequence of intermediate latent steps between Te and Ts. During optimization, the variational parameters λ defining the posterior on a subset of latent times are fit via a prior loss on times above Te, a hierarchical loss defined across K intermediate times, and a reconstruction loss estimated using a one-step approximation pθ(… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: We show the progress of fitting VIPaint’s posterior and draw samples after every 50 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Image completion results on Imagenet256 using the LDM prior for Rotated Window and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative results for LSUN-church dataset using LDM prior for the tasks of image [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Sample completions comparing VIPaint with the best performing baseline, CoPaint, for a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Qualitative results for VIPaint diversity for ImageNet256 with LDM prior using different class conditioning. We see that VIPaint follows the input label and ensures consistency with the observed set of pixels. tasks like super-resolution and Gaussian Deblurring, we show qualitative results in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Expanded comparison of methods for diffusion model-based inpainting. Left: Timeline illustration of sampling steps with time flowing rightward from t = 0 (clean images) to t = T (pure noise). Orange arrows indicate a single step of ancestral sampling under the generative prior pθ(zt−1|zt). Red arrows indicate a single step of the Blended approximation of pθ(zt−1|zt, y), while blue arrows indicate a single… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: An ablation showing the effect of addition the perceptual loss (PLoss) in the reconstruction [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: (Left) We show the effect of the hyperparameter β with VIPaint with respect to optimization iterations. (Right) we show the respective loss curves. With β = 10, VIPaint captures more variations under the diffusion prior instead of "setting" to one kind of completion with β = 1. 23 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Generally speaking, higher values of β explores the diffusion latent space more and lower values weighs the likelihood term relatively more and converges faster to a solution. Descretization of timesteps for prior diffusion loss L(Te,T)(zTe ) Lastly, we directly adapt the descretization technique from EDM Karras et al. [2022] to compute the diffusion loss. We use ρ = 7 across all models and datasets as us… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Paired comparison of LPIPS scores for VIPaint-2 and CoPaint with time-travel (CoPaint [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Qualitative results on Imagenet256 for Super Resolution. We see that DPS produces [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Qualitative results on Imagenet256 Gaussian DeBlurring using LDM prior. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_15.png] view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Qualitative results for Gaussian DeBlurring using EDM prior for ImageNet64. We see VIPaint leads to samples closer to the true image and producess more realistic images. 29 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_16.png] view at source ↗
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Qualitative results on the performance across methods for small masking ratios for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_17.png] view at source ↗
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: LSUN diversity results. Examples of diverse generation using VIPaint and baseline [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_18.png] view at source ↗
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: ImageNet64 diversity results with the same class condition but different initial noise. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_19.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Diffusion probabilistic models learn to remove noise added during training, generating novel data (e.g., images) from Gaussian noise through sequential denoising. However, conditioning the generative process on corrupted or masked images is challenging. While various methods have been proposed for inpainting masked images with diffusion priors, they often fail to produce samples from the true conditional distribution, especially for large masked regions. Many baselines also cannot be applied to latent diffusion models which generate high-quality images with much lower computational cost. We propose a hierarchical variational inference algorithm that optimizes a non-Gaussian Markov approximation of the true diffusion posterior. Our VIPaint method outperforms existing approaches to inpainting, producing diverse high-quality imputations even for state-of-the-art text-conditioned latent diffusion models, and is also effective for other inverse problems like deblurring and superresolution.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 3 minor

Summary. The paper introduces VIPaint, a hierarchical variational inference algorithm that constructs a non-Gaussian Markov approximation to the conditional diffusion posterior. The method is applied to image inpainting with pre-trained diffusion models (including latent ones) and extended to other inverse problems such as deblurring and super-resolution. The central claim is that this procedure yields diverse, high-quality samples that outperform prior inpainting baselines while remaining applicable to state-of-the-art text-conditioned latent diffusion models.

Significance. If the reported quantitative gains hold, the work supplies an explicit ELBO, variational family, and optimization schedule for posterior sampling in diffusion models, together with reproducible experiments across pixel-space and latent backbones. This constitutes a practical advance for conditioning diffusion priors on corrupted observations without retraining.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3] §3 (hierarchical variational procedure): the claim that the Markov factorization yields a sufficiently accurate approximation to the true conditional posterior for large masked regions is load-bearing for the outperformance statement, yet the manuscript provides no quantitative bound or diagnostic on the approximation error as a function of mask size.
  2. [Experimental section] Experimental section: while quantitative gains are reported on inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution, the choice of baselines and the precise protocol for sampling from the variational posterior (number of optimization steps, temperature, etc.) must be stated explicitly to allow reproduction of the diversity and quality claims.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states outperformance without any numbers or baselines; a one-sentence summary of the key quantitative result should be added.
  2. [Method] Notation for the variational parameters and the diffusion timestep indexing should be unified between the method derivation and the algorithm box.
  3. [Figures] Figure captions for the qualitative results should indicate the mask ratio and the backbone model used in each panel.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the positive assessment and recommendation of minor revision. We address each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [§3] §3 (hierarchical variational procedure): the claim that the Markov factorization yields a sufficiently accurate approximation to the true conditional posterior for large masked regions is load-bearing for the outperformance statement, yet the manuscript provides no quantitative bound or diagnostic on the approximation error as a function of mask size.

    Authors: We agree that a quantitative assessment of the approximation quality would strengthen the presentation. Deriving a rigorous theoretical bound on the KL divergence for arbitrary mask sizes is intractable given the dimensionality and intractability of the true posterior. In the revision we will add empirical diagnostics, including ELBO values and sample-quality metrics plotted against mask size, together with a small-scale comparison against MCMC reference samples on synthetic data. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experimental section] Experimental section: while quantitative gains are reported on inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution, the choice of baselines and the precise protocol for sampling from the variational posterior (number of optimization steps, temperature, etc.) must be stated explicitly to allow reproduction of the diversity and quality claims.

    Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this reproducibility issue. The revised manuscript will explicitly list all baselines, the precise number of variational optimization steps, the temperature schedule, the optimizer settings, and the full sampling protocol used to generate the reported results. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation is a standard variational construction

full rationale

The paper introduces a hierarchical variational inference procedure to approximate the conditional posterior of a pre-trained diffusion model for inpainting and related inverse problems. The abstract and method description present this as an explicit algorithmic construction with a non-Gaussian Markov variational family, an ELBO objective, and an optimization schedule supplied in the full text. No equations or claims reduce by construction to fitted inputs, self-citations, or renamed empirical patterns; the approximation quality is treated as an empirical modeling choice whose adequacy is assessed via downstream task performance rather than internal redefinition. The central performance claims rest on reproducible experiments across pixel and latent diffusion backbones, not on any load-bearing self-referential step.

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