Google DeepMind Introduces Unified Latencies (UL): A Machine Learning Framework That Co-Controls Latencies Using Diffusion Forwards and Decoders

The current trajectory of Generative AI depends heavily on it Latent Distribution Models (LDMs) to manage the computational cost of high-resolution synthesis. By compressing data into a low-dimensional latent space, models can be scaled effectively. However, a fundamental trade-off persists: low information density makes hidden objects easier to read but sacrifices reconstruction quality, while high density enables close reconstruction but requires a large modeling capacity.

Google DeepMind researchers have presented Unit Latents (UL)a framework designed to navigate these trade-offs systematically. The framework typically combines the hidden representations with a prior distribution and separates them with a distribution model.

Architecture: Three Pillars of Composite Wires

I Aggregated Latents (UL) framework relies on three specific technical components:

• Modulated Gaussian Noise Coding: Unlike conventional Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) that learn the encoder distribution, UL uses a deterministic encoder E_𝝷 that predicts one latent z_{it is clean}. This encoding is then forwarded to a final signal-to-noise ratio (log-SNR) of λ(0)=5.
• Advance Maintenance: The previous distribution model is aligned with this minimum noise level. This alignment allows the Kullback-Leibler (KL) term in the Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO) to reduce to a simple weighted Mean Squared Error (MSE) over noise levels.
• Re-weighted decoder ELBO: The decoder uses sigmoid weighted loss, which provides an interpretable bound on the hidden bitrate while allowing the model to prioritize different noise levels.

Two Phase Training Process

The UL framework is implemented in two distinct phases to improve both implicit learning and production quality.

Phase 1: Collaborative Implicit Learning

In the first stage, the encoder, the front distribution (P_𝝷), and the diffusion decoder (D_𝝷) were jointly trained. The goal is to study latents that are simultaneously coded, standardized, and modeled. The encoder’s audio output is directly connected to the minimum noise level of the front end, providing a tight upper bound on the underlying bitrate.

Stage 2: Estimating the Base Model

The research team found that the previously trained only in ELBO loss in Phase 1 does not produce the correct samples because it weighs the content of low frequency and high frequency equally. Therefore, in Phase 2, the encoder and decoder are frozen. A new ‘base model’ is then trained on the latents using sigmoid weighting, which greatly improves performance. This category allows for larger model sizes and batch sizes.

Technical Performance and Ratings of SOTA

Combined Latencies show a high efficiency in the relationship between the training computer (FLOPs) and the quality of production^.

For ImageNet-512, UL outperformed previous methods, including DiT and EDM2 variants, in terms of training cost versus production FID. In video tasks using Kinetics-600, the small UL model achieved 1.7 FVD, while the medium variant reached SOTA 1.3 FVD.

Key Takeaways

• Integrated Diffusion Framework: UL is a framework that jointly optimizes an encoder, a collaborative decoder, and a distributed decoder, ensuring that hidden representations are simultaneously encoded, modeled, and modeled for high performance.
• Responsibility for Focused Information: By using a deterministic encoder that adds a fixed amount of Gaussian noise (typically to a log-SNR of λ(0)=5) and correlates it with a previous minimum noise level, the model provides a tight, interpretable upper bound on the implicit bitrate.
• Two-Step Training Strategy: The process involves a first joint training phase of the autoencoder and forward, followed by a second phase where the encoder and decoder are frozen and a larger ‘base model’ is trained on the real objects to increase the sampling quality.
• State of the Art Performance: The framework established a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) Fréchet Video Distance (FVD) of 1.3 on Kinetics-600 and achieved a competitive Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) of 1.4 on ImageNet-512 while requiring fewer training FLOPs than conventional latent classifier baselines.

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