Why Diffusion Models Don’t Memorize: The Role of Implicit Dynamical Regularization in Training

NeurIPSOral2025

Authors
Tony Bonnaire, Raphaël Urfin, Giulio Biroli, Marc Mezard
Affiliation
Université Paris-Saclay
Venue
NeurIPS 2025
Track
Oral

TL;DR

Implicit dynamical regularization during training gives diffusion models a generalization window that widens with the training set size, so stopping within this window prevents memorization.

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Topics

generalization diffusion

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