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This research proposes an observation-corrected Koopman framework to enhance feature caching in diffusion models, addressing the limitation of past-feature-only forecasts by incorporating real-time shallow measurements. The method achieves significant speedups over standard samplers while reducing prediction error on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet without requiring retraining of the generative model parameters.
Koopman Observers for Diffusion Acceleration: Correcting Feature Forecasts with Shallow Measurements
arXiv:2610.10366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feature caching accelerates diffusion sampling by replacing expensive network evaluations with predictions from previously computed activations. However, forecasts based only on past features cannot directly incorporate changes in the current denoising state. We investigate whether inexpensive, freshly computed features can serve as observations for correcting these predictions. We introduce an observation-corrected Koopman framework for accelerating frozen diffusion models. Using calibration trajectories, we identify finite-dimensional, time-dependent Koopman approximations that jointly describe the increments of shallow and deep network features. During accelerated sampling, these operators predict the evolution of expensive deep features, while innovations in the observed shallow features correct the predicted state. Periodic full evaluations refresh the observer, and all generative-model parameters remain unchanged. This formulation enables controlled comparisons of temporal prediction and observation correction. Across three 10,000-image runs per dataset, our method reduces paired Inception-feature MSE by $19.9\%$ on CIFAR-10 and $11.9\%$ on a ten-class ImageNet subset relative to channelwise affine prediction under the same four-partial-step schedule. Matched ablations attribute additional reductions of $4.54\%$ and $4.67\%$ to observation correction. The observer achieves $1.89\times$ and $1.85\times$ measured speedups over DDIM-50, supporting improved reference-sampler fidelity without retraining the denoiser.
Abstract:Feature caching accelerates diffusion sampling by replacing expensive network evaluations with predictions from previously computed activations. However, forecasts based only on past features cannot directly incorporate changes in the current denoising state. We investigate whether inexpensive, freshly computed features can serve as observations for correcting these predictions. We introduce an observation-corrected Koopman framework for accelerating frozen diffusion models. Using calibration trajectories, we identify finite-dimensional, time-dependent Koopman approximations that jointly describe the increments of shallow and deep network features. During accelerated sampling, these operators predict the evolution of expensive deep features, while innovations in the observed shallow features correct the predicted state. Periodic full evaluations refresh the observer, and all generative-model parameters remain unchanged. This formulation enables controlled comparisons of temporal prediction and observation correction. Across three 10,000-image runs per dataset, our method reduces paired Inception-feature MSE by $19.9\%$ on CIFAR-10 and $11.9\%$ on a ten-class ImageNet subset relative to channelwise affine prediction under the same four-partial-step schedule. Matched ablations attribute additional reductions of $4.54\%$ and $4.67\%$ to observation correction. The observer achieves $1.89\times$ and $1.85\times$ measured speedups over DDIM-50, supporting improved reference-sampler fidelity without retraining the denoiser.
Machine Learning (cs.LG); Dynamical Systems (math.DS); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
arXiv:2610.10366 [cs.LG]
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