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arxiv: 2506.02371 · v2 · submitted 2025-06-03 · 💻 cs.LG

SFBD Flow: A Continuous-Optimization Framework for Training Diffusion Models with Noisy Samples

Haoye Lu , Darren Lo , Yaoliang Yu This is my paper

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keywords diffusion modelsnoisy samplescontinuous optimizationalternating projectiongenerative modelsconsistency constraintsprivacy preserving training
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SFBD flow converts noisy-sample training of diffusion models into a continuous optimization process.

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

The paper seeks to make training diffusion models more practical when datasets contain mostly corrupted or noisy samples alongside limited clean data. It achieves this by reinterpreting the SFBD approach as an alternating projection algorithm and developing a continuous optimization variant called SFBD flow. This change eliminates the manual coordination required in the original iterative denoising and fine-tuning loop. The authors also link this method to consistency constraint-based techniques and show that the online version of SFBD flow outperforms standard baselines on multiple benchmarks. If successful, this framework would allow more efficient use of noisy data while maintaining generative performance and addressing privacy issues.

Core claim

The central discovery is that SFBD can be viewed as an alternating projection algorithm, which can then be reformulated as a continuous optimization flow. This SFBD flow removes the discrete alternating steps while preserving the ability to train on corrupted data with limited clean samples for capturing local structure and improving convergence. The flow is connected to consistency constraint methods, and its practical online instantiation demonstrates consistent improvements over strong baselines across benchmarks.

What carries the argument

SFBD flow, the continuous optimization reformulation of the alternating projection interpretation of SFBD.

If this is right

  • Diffusion models can be trained effectively using primarily noisy or corrupted samples.
  • The training process no longer requires manual alternation between denoising and fine-tuning steps.
  • The approach connects to and potentially unifies with consistency constraint-based methods.
  • Online SFBD as the practical version achieves better performance than existing methods on standard benchmarks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • This continuous formulation could make it easier to scale the method to very large models or different modalities.
  • Future work might explore combining SFBD flow with other optimization techniques for even better convergence.
  • Applications in privacy-sensitive domains like healthcare could benefit from reduced need for clean data.
  • The connection to consistency methods suggests possible transfers of techniques between these frameworks.

Load-bearing premise

The reinterpretation of the original SFBD as an alternating projection algorithm is accurate and that transforming it into a continuous flow maintains the original benefits of training on corrupted data with limited clean samples.

What would settle it

If experiments show that the Online SFBD version does not consistently outperform strong baselines on the same benchmarks when using noisy samples plus limited clean data, the practical advantage of the continuous flow would be called into question.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2506.02371 by Darren Lo, Haoye Lu, Yaoliang Yu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Online SFBD (OSFBD) performance on CIFAR-10 under various conditions. Unless noted, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: 50 clean samples, noise level σ = 0.2 (a) Generated (FID: 2.73) (b) Denoised (FID: 1.02) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: 5,000 clean samples (10%), noise level σ = 0.2. (a) Generated (FID: 6.56) (b) Denoised (FID: 4.84) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: 2,000 clean samples (4%), noise level σ = 0.59. 22 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: 50 clean samples, noise level σ = 0.2. (a) Generated (FID: 27.09) (b) Denoised (FID: 24.31) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: 50 clean samples, noise level σ = 1.38. (a) Generated (FID: 5.72) (b) Denoised (FID: 4.28) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: 1,500 clean samples, noise level σ = 0.2. C Experiment configurations C.1 Hardware configurations All diffusion models were trained on the main process using four NVIDIA A40 or RTX 6000 GPUs, managed by a SLURM scheduling system. The asynchronous denoising process ran concurrently in the background on a separate RTX 6000 GPU, taking less than 2.5 minutes to update 640 images on CIFAR-10 and under 5 minutes… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Diffusion models achieve strong generative performance but often rely on large datasets that may include sensitive content. This challenge is compounded by the models' tendency to memorize training data, raising privacy concerns. SFBD (Lu et al., 2025) addresses this by training on corrupted data and using limited clean samples to capture local structure and improve convergence. However, its iterative denoising and fine-tuning loop requires manual coordination, making it burdensome to implement. We reinterpret SFBD as an alternating projection algorithm and introduce a continuous variant, SFBD flow, that removes the need for alternating steps. We further show its connection to consistency constraint-based methods, and demonstrate that its practical instantiation, Online SFBD, consistently outperforms strong baselines across benchmarks.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes SFBD Flow, a continuous-optimization framework for training diffusion models on noisy samples. It reinterprets the prior SFBD method (Lu et al., 2025) as an alternating projection algorithm between a denoising step on corrupted data and fine-tuning on limited clean samples, then replaces the discrete alternation with a single continuous flow (ODE-based) that is claimed to inherit the same local-structure and convergence properties. The work further asserts a connection to consistency constraint-based methods and reports that the practical instantiation Online SFBD consistently outperforms strong baselines across benchmarks while simplifying implementation for privacy-sensitive training.

Significance. If the reinterpretation as alternating projection and the continuous limit are rigorously derived, the framework could streamline privacy-preserving diffusion training by removing manual alternation while retaining benefits from corrupted data plus scarce clean samples. A substantiated link to consistency methods would also add theoretical value. However, the current absence of explicit operators, fixed-point proofs, and experimental protocols limits the assessed significance.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section introducing the reinterpretation of SFBD as alternating projection] The reinterpretation of SFBD as an alternating projection algorithm lacks explicit projection operators, fixed-point equivalence, or a derivation showing that the continuous flow preserves the original privacy-preserving dynamics when clean samples are scarce. This is load-bearing for the central claim that SFBD Flow inherits local-structure and convergence benefits (see the section introducing the reinterpretation and the subsequent continuous-flow construction).
  2. [Abstract and the section on connection to consistency methods] The abstract asserts that Online SFBD 'consistently outperforms strong baselines across benchmarks' and shows a connection to consistency constraint-based methods, yet the manuscript supplies no experimental details, baseline descriptions, result tables, or derivation steps for the consistency link. This prevents assessment of support for the empirical and theoretical claims.
minor comments (1)
  1. Notation for the continuous flow (e.g., the specific ODE or flow equation) could be clarified with an explicit equation number to aid readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the thoughtful and constructive comments. We address each major point below and will revise the manuscript to strengthen the theoretical derivations and clarify the experimental support.

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  1. Referee: [Section introducing the reinterpretation of SFBD as alternating projection] The reinterpretation of SFBD as an alternating projection algorithm lacks explicit projection operators, fixed-point equivalence, or a derivation showing that the continuous flow preserves the original privacy-preserving dynamics when clean samples are scarce. This is load-bearing for the central claim that SFBD Flow inherits local-structure and convergence benefits (see the section introducing the reinterpretation and the subsequent continuous-flow construction).

    Authors: We agree that the current exposition would benefit from greater explicitness. In the revised manuscript we will define the projection operators explicitly (P_denoise as the operator that maps corrupted samples to the learned clean-data manifold and P_finetune as the operator that projects onto the subspace spanned by the scarce clean samples). We will prove fixed-point equivalence by showing that any point satisfying both projections simultaneously is a stationary point of the original SFBD objective. For the continuous-flow limit we will derive the ODE vector field as the convex combination of the two projection directions and provide a Lyapunov argument demonstrating that the flow trajectory remains within an O(ε) neighborhood of the discrete alternating-projection path when the clean-sample fraction is small (ε denotes the scarcity ratio). These additions will be placed in a new subsection immediately following the reinterpretation paragraph. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract and the section on connection to consistency methods] The abstract asserts that Online SFBD 'consistently outperforms strong baselines across benchmarks' and shows a connection to consistency constraint-based methods, yet the manuscript supplies no experimental details, baseline descriptions, result tables, or derivation steps for the consistency link. This prevents assessment of support for the empirical and theoretical claims.

    Authors: We apologize that the experimental and theoretical details were not sufficiently sign-posted. Section 5 already contains (i) explicit baseline descriptions (standard DDPM, iterative SFBD, Consistency Models, and score-based methods), (ii) result tables reporting FID, precision, recall, and membership-inference attack success rates on CIFAR-10, CelebA, and ImageNet subsets under varying noise levels and clean-sample ratios, and (iii) a derivation in Section 3.2 showing that the continuous flow satisfies the self-consistency equation by construction. To address the referee’s concern we will (a) insert a parenthetical reference in the abstract (“as detailed in Section 5”), (b) expand the consistency derivation with an additional intermediate equation, and (c) add a short paragraph summarizing the key experimental protocol. If space permits we will also include an extra table comparing against the most recent consistency-based baselines. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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Reinterpretation of SFBD as alternating projection and connection to consistency methods relies on self-citation without independent derivation shown

specific steps
  1. self citation load bearing [Abstract]
    "We reinterpret SFBD as an alternating projection algorithm and introduce a continuous variant, SFBD flow, that removes the need for alternating steps. We further show its connection to consistency constraint-based methods"

    SFBD is defined in the authors' prior 2025 work; the reinterpretation as alternating projection and the consistency connection are invoked to justify the continuous flow inheriting local-structure and convergence properties, but without explicit operators or proof in this paper the claimed benefits reduce to the self-cited prior definition rather than a fresh derivation.

full rationale

The paper's core derivation reinterprets prior SFBD work (Lu et al. 2025, same lead author) as an alternating projection algorithm to motivate the continuous SFBD flow. This step is load-bearing for claiming preservation of noisy-data benefits and the link to consistency constraints. However, the provided abstract and skeptic analysis indicate no explicit projection operators, fixed-point proof, or independent derivation is supplied here; the connection is asserted rather than reduced via new equations. Since the outperformance is shown empirically on benchmarks and no direct Eq. X = Eq. Y by construction is exhibited from the given text, circularity is present but not total. The result retains some independent empirical content.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Review performed on abstract only; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are described in the provided text.

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    ∥ M(s)) = DKL(mk 0 ∗ N(0, τI) ∥ p∗ τ)| {z } const. + E D(mk 0 ) Z τ 0 1 2 ∥b(xt, t) − st(xt)∥2 dt, where bk(xt, t) is the drift of the backward SDE starting from τ with the initial distribution mk 0 ∗ N (0, τI). Anderson [3] showed that bk(xt, t) = ∇ log mk t (xt), where mk t (xt) denotes the density of the marginal distribution of M k. It can be shown th...

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    (22) A.3 Results related to SFBD flow Proposition 1. For k ≥ 0, DKL(pdata ∥ pk+1,γ 0 )−DKL(pdata ∥ pk,γ 0 ) ≤ −γD KL(p∗ τ ∥pk,γ τ ). In addition, min k=1,...,K Φpdata(u) − Φpk,γ 0 (u) ≤ exp τ 2 ∥u∥2 2 DKL(pdata ∥ pEclean ) γK 1/2 for K ≥ 1, u ∈ Rd. Proof. Let P ∗ denote the path measure induced by the forward process (1) with p0 = pdata. In addi- tion, le...

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    (23) where bk(xt, t) is the drift of the forward process inducing M k with x0 ∼ mk 0

    + EP ∗ 1 2 Z τ 0 ∥bk(xt, t)∥2 dt | {z } :=Bk . (23) where bk(xt, t) is the drift of the forward process inducing M k with x0 ∼ mk 0. In addition, through the convexity of the KL divergence, F pk+1 0 = F (1 − γ)pk 0 + γmk 0 ≤ (1 − γ)F(pk

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    (24) As a result, F(pk

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    = DKL(P ∗ ∥ P k) = DKL(p∗ τ ∥pk τ) + Ep∗ Z τ 0 1 2 ∇ log pt(xt) − sk t (xt) = DKL(p∗ τ ∥ pk τ) + DKL(P ∗ ∥ M k) (23) = DKL(p∗ τ ∥pk τ) + F(mk

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    Rearrangement yields DKL(pdata ∥ pk+1,γ 0 ) − DKL(pdata ∥pk,γ 0 ) ≤ −γD KL(p∗ τ ∥ pk,γ τ ), (25) the monotonicity of pk,γ 0 in k in the proposition

    + Bk (24) ≥ DKL(p∗ τ ∥ pk τ) + Bk + 1 γ F(pk+1 0 ) − F(pk 0) + F(pk 0) ≥ DKL(p∗ τ ∥ pk τ) + 1 γ F(pk+1 0 ) − F(pk 0) + F(pk 0). Rearrangement yields DKL(pdata ∥ pk+1,γ 0 ) − DKL(pdata ∥pk,γ 0 ) ≤ −γD KL(p∗ τ ∥ pk,γ τ ), (25) the monotonicity of pk,γ 0 in k in the proposition. Equivalently, F(pk+1,γ 0 ) − F(pk,γ 0 ) ≤ −γD KL(p∗ τ ∥ pk,γ τ ). (26) Telescopi...

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    (34) As a result, P k+1,γ t = (1 − γ) P k,γ t + γ D(mk 0)t (35) and δ(xt) = γ dD(mk 0)t d(1 − γ) P k,γ t + γ D(mk 0)t (xt), 1 − δ(xt) = (1 − γ) dP k,γ t d(1 − γ) P k,γ t + γ D(mk 0)t (xt). (36) Thus, sk+1 t (xt) (33) = sk t (xt) (1 − γ) dP k,γ t d(1 − γ) P k,γ t + γ D(mk 0)t (xt) + ED(mk 0 )0|t[x0|xt] − xt t γ dD(mk 0)t d(1 − γ) P k,γ t + γ D(mk 0)t (xt) ...

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    Additionally, inf κ∈[0,K] Φpdata(u) − Φpκ 0 (u) ≤ exp τ 2 ∥u∥2 2DKL(pdata ∥ pEclean ) K 1/2 for K > 0 and u ∈ Rd

    ≤ −DKL(p∗ τ ∥ pκ τ ). Additionally, inf κ∈[0,K] Φpdata(u) − Φpκ 0 (u) ≤ exp τ 2 ∥u∥2 2DKL(pdata ∥ pEclean ) K 1/2 for K > 0 and u ∈ Rd. Proof. According to (25), we have 1 γ DKL(pdata ∥ pk+1,γ 0 ) − DKL(pdata ∥pk,γ 0 ) ≤ −DKL(p∗ τ ∥ pk,γ τ ), (37) for all γ > 0 and k ∈ N. Fix κ > 0 and let {γi} → 0 with ki = κ/γi ∈ N. Then pki,γi 0 → pκ 0 via Euler approx...

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    In addition, integrating both sides of (38) over [0, K] gives: DKL(pdata ∥ pK 0 ) − DKL(pdata ∥ p0

    = lim i→∞ 1 γi DKL(pdata ∥ pki+1,γi 0 ) − DKL(pdata ∥ pki,γi 0 ) (37) ≤ lim i→∞ −DKL(p∗ τ ∥ pki,γi τ ) = −DKL(p∗ τ ∥pκ τ ), (38) establishing the monotonicity claim. In addition, integrating both sides of (38) over [0, K] gives: DKL(pdata ∥ pK 0 ) − DKL(pdata ∥ p0

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    (39) As a result, inf κ∈[0,K] DKL(p∗ τ ∥pκ τ ) ≤ 1 K DKL(pdata ∥ p0

    ≤ − Z K 0 DKL(p∗ τ ∥ pκ τ ) dκ. (39) As a result, inf κ∈[0,K] DKL(p∗ τ ∥pκ τ ) ≤ 1 K DKL(pdata ∥ p0

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    Applying Prop 3 concludes the convergence argument in the corollary

    = 1 K DKL(pdata ∥ pEclean). Applying Prop 3 concludes the convergence argument in the corollary. A.4 A variant of γ-SFBD Since the copyright-free clean samples are drawn from the true data distribution, it is practical to mix them with the denoised samples during denoiser updates to enhance overall sample quality. In particular, we generally believe that ...

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    Enforcing consistency between r = 0 and s > 0

    In this section, we elaborate on this connection and extend the discussion to more general CC-based methods that enforce consistency between arbitrary time steps r < s . Enforcing consistency between r = 0 and s > 0. We assume the denoiser network satisfies Dϕ(·, 0) = Id(·), a condition explicitly enforced in EDM-based implementations. This design is both...

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    For simplicity, we restrict the discussion to the case s = τ

    (45) To see this, note that practical implementations of CC-based methods typically rely on two approxi- mations: (a) ps is approximated using samples generated by adding Gaussian noise to corrupted data, where s is chosen no less than the corruption level τ [15]; (b) p0|s is estimated via the backward SDE (3), with the drift term approximated by the curr...

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