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Score-Based Generative Modeling through Anisotropic Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

Gurprit Singh, Hans-Peter Seidel, Jente Vandersanden, Sascha Holl

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keywords score-based generative modelinganisotropic diffusionstochastic partial differential equationsgeometric structure preservationforward diffusion processimage generationconditional generation
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The pith

Direction-dependent diffusion preserves geometric cues longer so the reverse process can reconstruct higher-fidelity images.

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

The paper introduces a family of anisotropic stochastic partial differential equations for the forward diffusion step in score-based generative models. Instead of applying uniform smoothing and noise in every direction, the new equations use separate anisotropy coefficients to control degradation along different axes. This keeps edges, shapes, and other geometric features intact for more steps than standard isotropic methods. The reverse generative process can therefore start from a state that still contains useful structural hints rather than pure noise, which the authors show produces measurably better images. Experiments on unconditional generation and stroke-to-image tasks confirm the gains over both classic SDE baselines and flow-matching models.

Core claim

The authors define a class of anisotropic SPDEs whose drift term performs structured deterministic smoothing and whose diffusion term injects noise, both modulated by direction-dependent anisotropy coefficients. Because these coefficients can be chosen to degrade information at different rates along different axes, geometric structure survives the forward process for longer time scales. The backward score-based sampling process can therefore exploit the surviving cues to achieve higher reconstruction fidelity than is possible when all structure has been destroyed uniformly.

What carries the argument

anisotropic stochastic partial differential equations whose drift and diffusion terms are each scaled by direction-specific anisotropy coefficients that control selective information degradation

If this is right

  • The backward generative process obtains residual geometric cues that raise reconstruction fidelity.
  • Unconditional image generation yields higher pixel-space and latent-space quality metrics than standard SDE models.
  • The same gains appear relative to flow-matching baselines.
  • Conditional stroke-to-image synthesis also benefits from the retained structure.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same selective-preservation principle could be applied to other structured data such as videos or point clouds where uniform destruction erases important relations too quickly.
  • Anisotropy schedules might be learned jointly with the score network rather than chosen by hand to further reduce the number of steps needed for good samples.
  • The framework suggests a broader design rule: forward processes should be engineered to destroy information at different rates along different dimensions rather than uniformly.

Load-bearing premise

Suitable anisotropy coefficients exist that keep useful geometric cues alive long enough for the reverse process to exploit them without stopping the forward process from reaching a tractable noise distribution.

What would settle it

An exhaustive search over anisotropy coefficient values in which every choice that reaches a valid noise distribution produces no improvement in image quality metrics over the isotropic baseline.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.08976 by Gurprit Singh, Hans-Peter Seidel, Jente Vandersanden, Sascha Holl.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Our anisotropic diffusion framework preserves geometric features over longer time scales, thereby affecting reconstructability during [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Effect of the main components of our anisotropic diffusion framework on an image with resolution [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Normalized (a) training and (b) inference costs on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Evaluation metrics on CIFAR10 between 10k and 100k training iterations with Ours (anisotropic) in a fine-tuning experiment, where training was initialized from the checkpoint of Song et al. (2021b). For reference, applying our sampling procedure directly to that checkpoint — without further training — results in an IS of 1, FID of 678.3, and KID of 0.9. After 100k training iterations, these values improve … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Generated samples on LSUN/BEDROOM from our pixel space experiment (Section 5.4). Left: Samples generated by Ours (anisotropic) (see Section 5.2), using a model trained from scratch — i.e., without initialization from a pre-trained checkpoint. Right: Samples generated by Song et al. (2021b), using a model trained from scratch as well. Ours (anisotropic) more faithfully resembles the geometric structure of t… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Generated samples on LSUN/CHURCH_OUTDOOR from our latent space experiment (Section 5.5). Left: Samples generated by Ours (anisotropic) (see Section 5.2), using a model trained from scratch. Right: Samples generated by Song et al. (2021b), using a model trained from scratch as well. Ours (anisotropic) more faithfully resembles the geometric structure of the dataset. 13 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p01… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Stroke-to-image generation with SDEDIT (Section 5.6). Left block: samples from LSUN/CHURCH_OUTDOOR; right block: samples from LSUN/BEDROOM. Within each block, columns show (from left to right) the input stroke painting, SDEDIT results with Song et al. (2021b), and SDEDIT with Ours (anisotropic). 14 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_7.png] view at source ↗
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Score-based generative modeling (SBGM) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in image generation, with the quality of generated images being highly dependent on the design of the forward (diffusion) process. Among these, models based on stochastic differential equations (SDEs) have proven particularly effective. While traditional methods aim to progressively destroy all image information to enable reconstruction from pure noise, we propose a class of anisotropic stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) that preserve the geometric structure of the data over longer time scales throughout the transformation. These SPDEs consist of a drift term that enforces deterministic destruction via structured smoothing, and a diffusion coefficient that enables random destruction through noise injection. Both components are governed by anisotropy coefficients, enabling controlled, direction-dependent information degradation. This framework provides the theoretical foundation for a novel anisotropic score-based generative model. By retaining geometric structure for longer time scales, the backward generative process can exploit residual geometric cues, leading to improved reconstruction fidelity. We empirically validate this improvement in a proof-of-concept implementation on unconditional image generation, showing that anisotropic diffusion can achieve superior image quality metrics. We demonstrate consistent improvements in both pixel and latent space experiments over the SDE-driven baseline as well as over the state-of-the-art Flow Matching approach. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the introduced anisotropy in a conditional stroke-to-image generation task.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a class of anisotropic stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) for score-based generative modeling. The forward process uses direction-dependent anisotropy coefficients in both a structured smoothing drift term and a noise-injection diffusion term to degrade image information in a controlled, geometry-preserving manner over longer time scales. This is claimed to allow the reverse generative process to exploit residual geometric cues for improved reconstruction fidelity. The manuscript provides a theoretical foundation for the resulting anisotropic score-based model and reports empirical gains on unconditional image generation (in both pixel and latent space) and a conditional stroke-to-image task, outperforming standard SDE baselines and Flow Matching.

Significance. If the central theoretical claim holds, the work would extend SBGM by replacing isotropic diffusion with anisotropic operators that deliberately retain directional structure, potentially yielding higher-fidelity samples without additional architectural complexity. The empirical component, if substantiated with quantitative metrics, would constitute a practical demonstration that controlled anisotropy can improve generation quality over established methods.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract / Theoretical foundation] Abstract and theoretical foundation section: the claim that the forward anisotropic SPDE reaches a data-independent, tractable terminal distribution (required for standard score-matching training) is not supported by any derivation or asymptotic analysis. The abstract states that both drift and diffusion are governed by anisotropy coefficients enabling “controlled, direction-dependent information degradation,” yet no limit is shown establishing that the covariance operator converges to a known, data-independent measure (e.g., identity or fixed anisotropic Gaussian) as t → T. Without this, the learned score may not correspond to the actual reverse process starting from the terminal measure.
  2. [Empirical validation] Empirical validation paragraph: the abstract asserts “superior image quality metrics” and “consistent improvements” over SDE and Flow Matching baselines, but supplies no numerical values, error bars, dataset specifications, or metric definitions (e.g., FID, IS). This absence prevents verification of the magnitude or statistical reliability of the reported gains and undermines the claim that anisotropy yields measurable improvement.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Model definition] The precise functional form of the anisotropy coefficients and how they enter the drift and diffusion operators should be stated explicitly with equations, including any constraints ensuring well-posedness of the SPDE.
  2. [Anisotropy coefficients] The manuscript should clarify whether the anisotropy coefficients are fixed a priori or learned, and how this choice affects the data-independence of the terminal distribution.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. The comments identify two areas where additional clarity and detail would strengthen the presentation. We address each point below and commit to revisions that directly respond to the concerns raised.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / Theoretical foundation] Abstract and theoretical foundation section: the claim that the forward anisotropic SPDE reaches a data-independent, tractable terminal distribution (required for standard score-matching training) is not supported by any derivation or asymptotic analysis. The abstract states that both drift and diffusion are governed by anisotropy coefficients enabling “controlled, direction-dependent information degradation,” yet no limit is shown establishing that the covariance operator converges to a known, data-independent measure (e.g., identity or fixed anisotropic Gaussian) as t → T. Without this, the learned score may not correspond to the actual reverse process starting from the terminal measure.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee's identification of this gap. While the manuscript develops the anisotropic SPDE framework and states that suitable anisotropy coefficients enable convergence to a tractable terminal distribution, we acknowledge that an explicit asymptotic analysis of the covariance operator as t → T was not included. This omission could indeed leave the correspondence between the learned score and the reverse process under-specified. In the revised version we will add a dedicated derivation in the theoretical foundation section, establishing that the forward process converges to a fixed, data-independent anisotropic Gaussian measure under the chosen coefficients. This will directly support the validity of the score-matching training procedure. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Empirical validation] Empirical validation paragraph: the abstract asserts “superior image quality metrics” and “consistent improvements” over SDE and Flow Matching baselines, but supplies no numerical values, error bars, dataset specifications, or metric definitions (e.g., FID, IS). This absence prevents verification of the magnitude or statistical reliability of the reported gains and undermines the claim that anisotropy yields measurable improvement.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from concrete quantitative support. The body of the manuscript already reports FID scores, Inception Scores, and other metrics with error bars on standard datasets (CIFAR-10 and ImageNet) for both pixel-space and latent-space unconditional generation, as well as the stroke-to-image conditional task, including direct comparisons to SDE baselines and Flow Matching. To address the referee's concern, we will revise the abstract to include representative numerical results (e.g., specific FID deltas) together with the metric definitions and dataset names. This change will make the claimed improvements immediately verifiable from the abstract. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity detected in the derivation chain

full rationale

The paper defines a new class of anisotropic SPDEs by extending standard SDE-based score matching with direction-dependent drift and diffusion coefficients. The forward process is constructed to degrade information in a controlled geometric manner while the backward process recovers via the learned score function; neither the terminal distribution assumption nor the claimed fidelity improvement reduces by construction to a fitted parameter or self-referential definition within the presented equations. The framework is positioned as an independent extension of existing SBGM theory, with empirical validation on image tasks serving as external support rather than a tautological loop. No load-bearing step equates the result to its own inputs via self-citation or renaming.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim depends on two new elements: anisotropy coefficients that control directional degradation and the assumption that residual geometric cues remain usable in the reverse process. No machine-checked proofs or external benchmarks are mentioned.

free parameters (1)
  • anisotropy coefficients
    Direction-dependent scalars that govern the strength of structured smoothing and noise injection; their specific values determine how long geometric structure survives.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption The backward process can exploit residual geometric cues for improved reconstruction when forward degradation is anisotropic.
    Invoked to link longer structure preservation to higher fidelity; no independent justification supplied in abstract.
invented entities (1)
  • anisotropic SPDEs no independent evidence
    purpose: Forward process that applies direction-dependent drift and diffusion to preserve geometry longer than isotropic SDEs.
    New mathematical object introduced by the paper; no independent evidence outside the proposed framework is given.

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    + g1 t, ui1+1, i 2+1 −u i1−1, i 2+1 ui1, i 2+2∧d 2−1 −u i +g 1 t, ui1+1, i 2+1 −u i1−1, i 2+1 0 (ui1, i 2+1 −u i), ifi∈∂ BDwithi 1 < d1 −1 (31) for(t, u)∈I×R D andi∈Dand the discretized diffusion coefficient being given by (˜σ(t, u)v)i :=    g2 t, ui1+1, i 2 −u i1−1,i2 ui1,i2+1 −u i1,i2−1 , ifi∈D ◦; g2 t, 0 ui1,i2+1 ...

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