Policy-Mask: Budget-Aware Adaptation of Diffusion Features to Discriminative Tasks

概要

Selecting intermediate features from a frozen diffusion model for discriminative tasks is non-trivial because the useful signal is distributed across the denoising trajectory, network depth, and channels. In practice, this requires choosing a timestep, a block, and a channel subset. Existing methods either fix these choices by hand or optimize only a few extraction hyperparameters, most often the timestep, then reuse the same rule across inputs and budgets. We introduce Policy-Mask, a budget-conditioned policy trained on the downstream objective that jointly selects all three under a prescribed channel budget. Without normalization, the channel-score contribution grows with the number of selected channels and dominates the timestep and block updates. We normalize it by subset cardinality, keeping the three policy heads on comparable scales and stabilizing joint training. At matched budgets, Policy-Mask improves over fixed extraction and feature-filter baselines across segmentation, classification, and semantic correspondence, reaching 38.9 mIoU on ADE20K, 75.4% top-1 on CIFAR-100 at 128 dimensions, and 76.3 PCK@0.1 on SPair-71k. Component-wise ablations show that block selection materially affects downstream accuracy, and the highest recorded channel-budget score occurs at 256 retained channels, identifying a practical operating point for compact diffusion representations. We further adapt Policy-Mask to diffusion transformers, including PixArt-Σ and SD3.5 MMDiT, by replacing U-Net channels with image-token hidden dimensions.

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• Hugging Face ↗

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# 論文・記事
Policy-Mask: Budget-Aware Adaptation of Diffusion Features to Discriminative Tasks

# 概要
Selecting intermediate features from a frozen diffusion model for discriminative tasks is non-trivial because the useful signal is distributed across the denoising trajectory, network depth, and…

# 原典
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28889

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