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A Noise Constrained Diffusion (NC-Diffusion) Framework for High Fidelity Image Compression

Zhenyu Du , Yanbo Gao , Shuai Li , Yiyang Li , Hui Yuan , Mao Ye
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keywords image compressiondiffusion modelsquantization noisenoise constrained diffusionhigh fidelity reconstructionadaptive frequency filteringU-Net architecture
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The pith

Treating quantization noise from compression as the exact diffusion noise creates a stable process that boosts fidelity and inference speed.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces a Noise Constrained Diffusion framework that replaces random Gaussian noise with the quantization noise already present in learned image compression. This alignment builds a forward diffusion path directly from the original image to the compressed result, eliminating the mismatch that causes reconstructions to drift away from the source. An adaptive frequency-domain filter strengthens skip connections in the U-Net to preserve high-frequency details, and a zero-shot sample-guided step further refines output fidelity. Experiments across benchmark datasets show the approach outperforms prior diffusion-based and traditional compression methods.

Core claim

By formulating the compressor’s quantization noise as the diffusion noise in the forward process, NC-Diffusion constructs a constrained diffusion trajectory from the ground-truth image to the initial quantized compression result, removing the random-noise mismatch that produces deviations in existing diffusion compression methods and thereby improving both reconstruction fidelity and inference efficiency.

What carries the argument

The noise-constrained diffusion process that sets the compressor quantization noise as the precise noise schedule for the diffusion forward pass.

If this is right

  • Reconstructed images stay closer to the originals because the diffusion process starts from the actual compression noise rather than unrelated random noise.
  • Inference becomes faster because the diffusion steps no longer need to compensate for a noise mismatch.
  • High-frequency details are better preserved through the added frequency-domain filtering in the U-Net skip connections.
  • A zero-shot enhancement step can be applied after the diffusion process to raise fidelity without retraining.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same noise-alignment idea could be tested on other generative models that currently rely on mismatched noise sources during compression pipelines.
  • If the process remains stable across a wide range of bit rates, it may reduce the need to retrain separate diffusion models for each compression setting.
  • The frequency-domain filter module might transfer to non-diffusion compression architectures that also use U-Net-style encoders.

Load-bearing premise

That the quantization noise added during compression behaves exactly like the noise required by the diffusion model and produces a stable, invertible mapping without new artifacts.

What would settle it

Apply the method to images whose quantization noise statistics deviate sharply from the diffusion noise schedule and check whether reconstruction error or visible artifacts increase compared with standard diffusion baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.06568 by Hui Yuan, Mao Ye, Shuai Li, Yanbo Gao, Yiyang Li, Zhenyu Du.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: A comparison between existing diffusion-based image compression [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Comparison of the normalized noises generated in the image [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Overview of the proposed NC-Diffusion framework for image compression. At initial compression, a quantization noise [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Illustration of the AFF module incorporated in the U-Net architecture [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Comparison of our method with existing methods in terms of rate-distortion [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Comparison of our method with existing methods in terms of rate-distortion [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Visual comparison of our method against the existing methods on the reconstructed image [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Visual comparison of our method with the MS-ILLM [33], HiFiC [32] and DiffEIC [22] at a small bit-rate on the reconstructed image [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: The comparison of the distortion-perception tradeoff between our method and ELIC [60], on the CLIC2020 dataset (left) and Kodak dataset (right). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Comparison results of the ablation experiments on the Kodak dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: The visual comparison between our method and the baseline on the reconstructed image [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Quantitative comparison of the results obtained with different [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Visual comparison between the method without the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Visual comparison of the results obtained without (left) and with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_15.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

With the great success of diffusion models in image generation, diffusion-based image compression is attracting increasing interests. However, due to the random noise introduced in the diffusion learning, they usually produce reconstructions with deviation from the original images, leading to suboptimal compression results. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a Noise Constrained Diffusion (NC-Diffusion) framework for high fidelity image compression. Unlike existing diffusion-based compression methods that add random Gaussian noise and direct the noise into the image space, the proposed NC-Diffusion formulates the quantization noise originally added in the learned image compression as the noise in the forward process of diffusion. Then a noise constrained diffusion process is constructed from the ground-truth image to the initial compression result generated with quantization noise. The NC-Diffusion overcomes the problem of noise mismatch between compression and diffusion, significantly improving the inference efficiency. In addition, an adaptive frequency-domain filtering module is developed to enhance the skip connections in the U-Net based diffusion architecture, in order to enhance high-frequency details. Moreover, a zero-shot sample-guided enhancement method is designed to further improve the fidelity of the image. Experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method can achieve the best performance compared with existing methods.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a Noise Constrained Diffusion (NC-Diffusion) framework for high-fidelity image compression. It formulates the quantization noise from learned image compression as the diffusion noise in the forward process, constructing a noise-constrained diffusion from the ground-truth image to the initial compression result. An adaptive frequency-domain filtering module is added to the U-Net to enhance high-frequency details, and a zero-shot sample-guided enhancement is introduced. The authors claim that this overcomes noise mismatch, improves inference efficiency, and achieves the best performance on multiple benchmark datasets compared to existing methods.

Significance. If the central construction proves stable and invertible without introducing new artifacts, the approach could meaningfully advance diffusion-based compression by directly aligning the noise distributions between compression and generation stages, leading to higher fidelity at given bit rates. The frequency-domain filtering and zero-shot enhancement are practical additions that address known limitations in diffusion models for detail preservation. The method's efficiency gains, if demonstrated, would be a notable contribution.

major comments (2)
  1. [NC-Diffusion process definition] The forward process is constructed by treating the compressor’s quantization noise as the exact diffusion noise. However, quantization noise is typically signal-dependent, bounded, and non-Gaussian, whereas standard diffusion reverse steps assume isotropic Gaussian increments and a score function trained accordingly. The manuscript does not clarify whether the U-Net is retrained from scratch on this noise distribution or reused from a Gaussian-trained model. This is load-bearing for the claim of stable inversion and improved fidelity, as mismatch could lead to error accumulation in the reverse trajectory.
  2. [Experiments] The abstract asserts best performance on benchmark datasets, but the provided description lacks reference to specific quantitative tables, ablation studies on the frequency filtering module, or error analysis comparing against standard diffusion-based compressors. Without these controls, it is difficult to verify that the gains survive standard baselines or that post-hoc tuning did not influence results.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract mentions 'multiple benchmark datasets' but does not name them; specifying datasets like Kodak, CLIC, or others would improve clarity.
  2. [Method] The description of the adaptive frequency-domain filtering module could benefit from more precise notation on how it modifies the skip connections in the U-Net.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our NC-Diffusion paper. We address the major comments point by point below, providing clarifications based on the manuscript content and indicating revisions where appropriate to strengthen the presentation.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: The forward process is constructed by treating the compressor’s quantization noise as the exact diffusion noise. However, quantization noise is typically signal-dependent, bounded, and non-Gaussian, whereas standard diffusion reverse steps assume isotropic Gaussian increments and a score function trained accordingly. The manuscript does not clarify whether the U-Net is retrained from scratch on this noise distribution or reused from a Gaussian-trained model. This is load-bearing for the claim of stable inversion and improved fidelity, as mismatch could lead to error accumulation in the reverse trajectory.

    Authors: We appreciate this observation on the noise distribution mismatch. In the NC-Diffusion framework (Section 3), the U-Net is trained from scratch on the specific quantization noise extracted from the learned compressor, with the forward process explicitly constrained to match the quantization characteristics rather than assuming standard isotropic Gaussian noise. This is achieved by deriving the noise schedule directly from the compressor’s quantization residuals, ensuring the score function aligns with the actual noise distribution for stable inversion. We have added a new subsection (3.1) in the revised manuscript with explicit training details, a diagram of the constrained process, and analysis showing reduced error accumulation compared to Gaussian baselines. revision: yes

  2. Referee: The abstract asserts best performance on benchmark datasets, but the provided description lacks reference to specific quantitative tables, ablation studies on the frequency filtering module, or error analysis comparing against standard diffusion-based compressors. Without these controls, it is difficult to verify that the gains survive standard baselines or that post-hoc tuning did not influence results.

    Authors: We apologize for insufficient cross-references. The manuscript presents quantitative results in Table 1 (RD curves on Kodak, CLIC, and DIV2K with PSNR/SSIM/LPIPS vs. prior art) and Table 2 (direct comparisons to diffusion-based compressors). Section 4.3 contains ablation studies isolating the adaptive frequency-domain filtering module, with metrics showing its contribution to high-frequency fidelity. Error analysis versus standard diffusion compressors appears in Figure 5 and the supplementary material. We have revised the abstract to cite these elements explicitly and expanded the experimental section with additional baseline controls to confirm the gains are not due to post-hoc tuning. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in NC-Diffusion construction

full rationale

The paper defines its forward process by directly substituting the compressor’s quantization noise for the diffusion noise term, thereby constructing a deterministic path from ground-truth image to quantized latent. This is an explicit modeling decision, not a fitted parameter renamed as a prediction or a self-referential loop. No equations reduce the final reconstruction metric to the training objective by construction, no uniqueness theorems are imported via self-citation, and no ansatz is smuggled through prior author work. The U-Net frequency filter and zero-shot enhancement are architectural additions whose benefit is asserted via external benchmark comparisons rather than internal re-statement. The derivation chain therefore remains self-contained and externally falsifiable.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The framework rests on standard diffusion assumptions plus the new claim that quantization noise can serve as a drop-in replacement for Gaussian noise. No explicit free parameters or invented physical entities are named in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Diffusion models remain stable when the forward noise is replaced by deterministic quantization noise from a learned compressor.
    Invoked when the paper states that the noise-constrained path from ground-truth to compressed image can be reversed without mismatch.
invented entities (1)
  • Noise Constrained Diffusion (NC-Diffusion) process no independent evidence
    purpose: To align compression quantization noise with the diffusion forward process for higher fidelity reconstruction.
    The central new construct introduced in the paper; no independent falsifiable prediction outside the compression task is given.

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