Rebecca Willett

Diffusion models recover accurate mixture weights despite score function insensitivity

Andrew Dennehy, Ramchandran Muthukumar, Rebecca Willett, Nisha Chandramoorthy

Score-based generative models exhibit a puzzling behavior: they often appear to cover all modes of a target multimodal distribution and yet may fail to learn the correct relative mode amplitudes, which can be interpreted as mixture weights. We resolve this apparent paradox by rel…Read more