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DeepInv: A Novel Self-supervised Learning Approach for Fast and Accurate Diffusion Inversion

arXiv 2601.01487 ↗First posted 4 Jan 2026cs.CV cs.AIcited by 1

On the map: Diffusion models → Inverse problems and image restoration

Abstract (arXiv)

Diffusion inversion is a task of recovering the noise of an image in a diffusion model, which is vital for controllable diffusion image editing. At present, diffusion inversion still remains a challenging task due to the lack of viable supervision signals. Thus, most existing methods resort to approximation-based solutions, which however are often at the cost of performance or efficiency. To remedy these shortcomings, we propose a novel self-supervised diffusion inversion approach in this paper, termed Deep Inversion (DeepInv). Instead of requiring ground-truth noise annotations, we introduce a self-supervised objective as well as a data augmentation strategy to generate high-quality pseudo noises from real images without manual intervention. Based on these two innovative designs, DeepInv is also equipped with an iterative and multi-scale training regime to train a parameterized inversion solver, thereby achieving the fast and accurate image-to-noise mapping. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt of presenting a trainable solver to predict inversion noise step by step. The extensive experiments show that our DeepInv can achieve much better performance and inference speed than the compared methods, e.g., +40.435% SSIM than EasyInv and +9887.5% speed than ReNoise on COCO dataset. Moreover, our careful designs of trainable solvers can also provide insights to the community. Codes and model parameters will be released in https://github.com/potato-kitty/DeepInv.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Inverse problems and image restoration, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 34 of its 44 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 4 Jan 2026.

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34 of 44 references.

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  1. 2024EasyInv: Toward Fast and Better DDIM Inversion9 Aug
  2. 2022EDICT: Exact Diffusion Inversion via Coupled Transformations22 Nov

Other references · 32

  1. 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 20,851
  2. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,694
  3. 2014Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Contextcited by 17,498
  4. 2018The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metriccited by 11,029
  5. 2020Denoising Diffusion Implicit Modelscited by 9,655
  6. 2022Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformerscited by 5,931
  7. 2023SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesiscited by 4,290
  8. 2024Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesiscited by 4,094
  9. 2022Flow Straight and Fast: Learning to Generate and Transfer Data with Rectified Flowcited by 3,550
  10. 2022Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Controlcited by 2,409
  11. 2022Null-text Inversion for Editing Real Images using Guided Diffusion Modelscited by 1,168
  12. 2025FLUX.1 Kontext: Flow Matching for In-Context Image Generation and Editing in Latent Spacecited by 960
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  1. 2022Plug-and-Play Diffusion Features for Text-Driven Image-to-Image Translationcited by 897
  2. 2016Generative Adversarial Text to Image Synthesiscited by 735
  3. 2023MasaCtrl: Tuning-Free Mutual Self-Attention Control for Consistent Image Synthesis and Editingcited by 722
  4. 2022DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidancecited by 643
  5. 2024Taming Rectified Flow for Inversion and Editingcited by 200
  6. 2023DragonDiffusion: Enabling Drag-style Manipulation on Diffusion Modelscited by 193
  7. 2024Semantic Image Inversion and Editing using Rectified Stochastic Differential Equationscited by 162
  8. 2023Direct Inversion: Boosting Diffusion-based Editing with 3 Lines of Codecited by 145
  9. 2024ReNoise: Real Image Inversion Through Iterative Noisingcited by 127
  10. 2023AnomalyDiffusion: Few-Shot Anomaly Image Generation with Diffusion Modelcited by 110
  11. 2023Prompt Tuning Inversion for Text-Driven Image Editing Using Diffusion Modelscited by 98
  12. 2023Compositional Text-to-Image Synthesis with Attention Map Control of Diffusion Modelscited by 82
  13. 2023Effective Real Image Editing with Accelerated Iterative Diffusion Inversioncited by 79
  14. 2025PosterMaker: Towards High-Quality Product Poster Generation with Accurate Text Renderingcited by 41
  15. 2024Unveil Inversion and Invariance in Flow Transformer for Versatile Image Editingcited by 34
  16. 2024SwiftEdit: Lightning Fast Text-Guided Image Editing via One-Step Diffusioncited by 28
  17. 2024TurboEdit: Instant text-based image editingcited by 26
  18. 2023Adv-Diffusion: Imperceptible Adversarial Face Identity Attack via Latent Diffusion Modelcited by 21
  19. 2025h-Edit: Effective and Flexible Diffusion-Based Editing via Doob's h-Transformcited by 18
  20. 2025Delta Rectified Flow Sampling for Text-to-Image Editingcited by 4

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  3. 2024There and Back Again: On the relation between Noise and Image Inversions in Diffusion Models
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  5. 2024Invertible Diffusion Models for Compressed Sensing
  6. 2024Blind Image Restoration via Fast Diffusion Inversion
  7. 2024A Survey on Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems
  8. 2025InvFusion: Bridging Supervised and Zero-shot Diffusion for Inverse Problems