Query Lower Bounds for Diffusion Sampling
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arXiv:2604.10857v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models generate samples by iteratively querying learned score estimates. A rapidly growing literature focuses on accelerating sampling by minimizing the number of score evaluations, yet the information-theoretic limits of such acceleration remain unclear. In this work, we establish the first score query lower bounds for diffusion sampling. We prove that for $d$-dimensional distributions, given access to score estimates with polynomial accuracy $\varepsilon=d^{-O(1)}$ (in any $L^p$ sense), any sampling algorithm requires $\wide
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2604.10857v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models generate samples by iteratively querying learned score estimates.
- A rapidly growing literature focuses on accelerating sampling by minimizing the number of score evaluations, yet the information-theoretic limits of such acceleration remain unclear.
- In this work, we establish the first score query lower bounds for diffusion sampling.
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