To achieve the highest perceptual quality, state-of-the-art diffusion models are optimized with objectives that typically look very different from the maximum likelihood and the Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO) objectives. In this work, we reveal that diffusion model objectives are actually closely related to the ELBO. Specifically, we show that all commonly used diffusion model objectives equate to a weighted integral of ELBOs over different noise levels, where the weighting depends on the specific objective used. Under the condition of monotonic weighting, the connection is even closer: the diffusion objective then equals the ELBO, combined with simple data augmentation, namely Gaussian noise perturbation. We show that this condition holds for a number of state-of-the-art diffusion models. In experiments, we explore new monotonic weightings and demonstrate their effectiveness, achieving state-of-the-art FID scores on the high-resolution ImageNet benchmark.

To achieve the highest perceptual quality, state-of-the-art diffusion models are optimized with objectives that typically look very different from the maximum likelihood andtheEvidence LowerBound (ELBO) objectives.

In the supplementary material, we first introduce the pseudo algorithm of DA W . Then we clarify the Then, we provide a more detailed explanation of Figures 1, 2, 4, and 5, which are slightly abbreviated due to the limited space of the main paper. In the naive pseudo-labeling method, all pseudo labels are enrolled into training, i.e., E 1 + E 2, which is guaranteed by theoretical functional analysis in the next section. Inequality 45 holds true at all times. In this section, we provide more qualitative results between ours and other competitors.

In our case, it boils down to: ' The smoothing effect induced by the average helps to reduce the visual noise, and hence improves the explanations. For the experiment, m and are the same as SmoothGrad. We start by deriving the closed form of Saliency (SA) and naturally Gradient-Input (GI): ' The case of V arGrad is specific, as the gradient of a linear system being constant, its variance is null. W We recall that for Gradient Input, Integrated Gradients, Occlusion, ' It was quickly realized that they unified properties of various domains such as graph theory, linear algebra or geometry. Later, in the '60s, a connection was made At each step, the insertion metric selects the concepts of maximum score given a cardinality constraint.

In practice, however, such biased training data are commonly encountered.