Diffusion models, as a type of generative models, have achieved impressive
results in generating images and videos conditioned on textual conditions.
However, the generation process of diffusion models involves denoising for
dozens of steps to produce photorealistic images/videos, which is
computationally expensive. Unlike previous methods that design
``one-size-fits-all'' approaches for speed up, we argue denoising steps should
be sample-specific conditioned on the richness of input texts. To this end, we
introduce AdaDiff, a lightweight framework designed to learn instance-specific
step usage policies, which are then used by the diffusion model for generation.
AdaDiff is optimized using a policy gradient method to maximize a carefully
designed reward function, balancing inference time and generation quality. We
conduct experiments on three image generation and two video generation
benchmarks and demonstrate that our approach achieves similar results in terms
of visual quality compared to the baseline using a fixed 50 denoising steps
while reducing inference time by at least 33%, going as high as 40%.
Furthermore, our qualitative analysis shows that our method allocates more
steps to more informative text conditions and fewer steps to simpler text
conditions.

AdaDiff 是一个轻量级框架，通过学习实例特定的步骤使用策略，优化了扩散模型的图像 / 视频生成过程，以最大化平衡推理时间和生成质量的回报函数，并在减少推理时间至少 33% 的情况下实现与基准方法相似的视觉质量。