arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-06
Steering Optimisation Trajectories in Diffusion Representation Learning
Rajat Rasal, Avinash Kori, Tian Xia, Ben Glocker
We study why diffusion autoencoders can achieve similar image quality while learning substantially different latent structures. We trace this behaviour to optimisation dynamics; we analyse curves of image reconstruction against latent representation quality, revealing trajectorie…