Diffusion Models For Multi-Modal Generative Modeling
<|reference_start|>Diffusion Models For Multi-Modal Generative Modeling: Diffusion-based generative modeling has been achieving state-of-the-art results on various generation tasks. Most diffusion models, however, are limited to a single-generation modeling. Can we generalize diffusion models with the ability of multi-modal generative training for more generalizable modeling? In this paper, we propose a principled way to define a diffusion model by constructing a unified multi-modal diffusion model in a common diffusion space. We define the forward diffusion process to be driven by an information aggregation from multiple types of task-data, e.g., images for a generation task and labels for a classification task. In the reverse process, we enforce information sharing by parameterizing a shared backbone denoising network with additional modality-specific decoder heads. Such a structure can simultaneously learn to generate different types of multi-modal data with a multi-task loss, which is derived from a new multi-modal variational lower bound that generalizes the standard diffusion model. We propose several multimodal generation settings to verify our framework, including image transition, masked-image training, joint image-label and joint image-representation generative modeling. Extensive experimental results on ImageNet indicate the effectiveness of our framework for various multi-modal generative modeling, which we believe is an important research direction worthy of more future explorations.<|reference_end|>
@article{chen2024diffusion,
    title={Diffusion Models For Multi-Modal Generative Modeling},
    author={Changyou Chen, Han Ding, Bunyamin Sisman, Yi Xu, Ouye Xie, Benjamin Z.
  Yao, Son Dinh Tran, Belinda Zeng},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17571},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.17571},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}