Unbiased Image Synthesis via Manifold Guidance in Diffusion Models

X Su, D Jia, F Wu, J Zhao, C Zheng… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
X Su, D Jia, F Wu, J Zhao, C Zheng, W Qiang
2024 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2024ieeexplore.ieee.org
Diffusion Models are a potent class of generative models capable of producing high-quality
images. However, they often inadvertently favor certain data attributes, undermining the
diversity of generated images. This issue is starkly apparent in skewed datasets like CelebA,
where the initial dataset disproportionately favors females over males by 57.9%, this bias
amplified in generated data where female representation outstrips males by 148%. In
response, we propose a plug-and-play method named Manifold Guidance Sampling, which …
Diffusion Models are a potent class of generative models capable of producing high-quality images. However, they often inadvertently favor certain data attributes, undermining the diversity of generated images. This issue is starkly apparent in skewed datasets like CelebA, where the initial dataset disproportionately favors females over males by 57.9%, this bias amplified in generated data where female representation outstrips males by 148%. In response, we propose a plug-and-play method named Manifold Guidance Sampling, which is also the first unsupervised method to mitigate bias issue in DDPMs. Leveraging the inherent structure of the data manifold, this method steers the sampling process towards a more uniform distribution, effectively dispersing the clustering of biased data. Without the need for modifying the existing model or additional training, it significantly mitigates data bias and enhances the quality and unbiasedness of the generated images.
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