Smoothed-score queries to the resolvent of a Gaussian precision matrix yield an O((log κ) log(1/δ)) query sampler for TV error δ and an Ω(log κ) bit lower bound, improving the condition-number dependence from √κ.
High-accuracy sampling for diffusion models and log-concave distributions
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We present algorithms for diffusion model sampling which obtain $\delta$-error in $\mathrm{polylog}(1/\delta)$ steps, given access to $\widetilde O(\delta)$-accurate score estimates in $L^2$. This is an exponential improvement over all previous results. Specifically, under minimal data assumptions, the complexity is $\widetilde O(d_\star \mathrm{polylog}(1/\delta))$ where $d_\star$ is the intrinsic dimension of the data. Further, under a non-uniform $L$-Lipschitz condition, the complexity reduces to $\widetilde O(L \mathrm{polylog}(1/\delta))$. Our approach also yields the first $\mathrm{polylog}(1/\delta)$ complexity sampler for general log-concave distributions using only gradient evaluations.
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