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DeltaDiff: Reality-Driven Diffusion with AnchorResiduals for Faithful SR

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-07-17 v2

Abstract

Recently, the transfer application of diffusion models in super-resolu-tion tasks has faced the problem ofdecreased fidelity. Due to the inherent randomsampling characteristics ofdiffusion models, direct application in super-resolu-tion tasks can result in generated details deviating from the true distribution ofhigh-resolution images. To address this, we propose DeltaDiff, a novel frame.work that constrains the difusion process, its essence is to establish a determin-istic mapping path between HR and LR, rather than the random noise disturbanceprocess oftraditional difusion models. Theoretical analysis demonstrates a 25%reduction in diffusion entropy in the residual space compared to pixel-space diffiusion, effectively suppressing irrelevant noise interference. The experimentalresults show that our method surpasses state-of-the-art models and generates re-sults with better fidelity. This work establishes a new low-rank constrained par-adigm for applying diffusion models to image reconstruction tasks, balancingstochastic generation with structural fidelity. Our code and model are publiclyavailable at https://github.com/continueyang/DeltaDiff .

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@article{arxiv.2502.12567,
  title  = {DeltaDiff: Reality-Driven Diffusion with AnchorResiduals for Faithful SR},
  author = {Chao Yang and Yong Fan and Qichao Zhang and Cheng Lu and Zhijing Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.12567},
  year   = {2025}
}
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