用特定噪声预训练可显著提升隐式神经表示的建模能力。
The Surprising Effectiveness of Noise Pretraining for Implicit Neural Representations
- 通过在不同噪声上预训练隐式神经表示,探索初始化策略效果。
- 具有自然图像频谱特性的噪声在拟合与去噪任务中表现最佳。
- 无需领域数据即可高效训练,适合缺乏标注数据的应用场景。
隐式神经表示(INRs)的逼近与收敛特性对参数初始化极为敏感。尽管一些数据驱动的初始化方法显著优于随机初始化,但其成功原因——是否编码了经典信号先验或更复杂特征——仍不明确。本文通过噪声预训练实验进行分析:在多种噪声类型(如高斯、死叶、谱噪声)上预训练INRs,评估其对未见信号的拟合能力及逆成像任务(去噪)中的先验表达能力。在图像和视频数据上的结果表明,仅在无结构噪声(均匀、高斯)上预训练,虽能大幅提升信号拟合能力,却无法形成有效的深层图像先验;而具备自然图像典型 $1/|f^α|$ 频谱结构的噪声,则在信号拟合与逆成像能力间达到良好平衡,性能媲美最优数据驱动初始化方法。该发现为缺乏领域数据的应用提供了更高效的INR训练方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The approximation and convergence properties of implicit neural representations (INRs) are known to be highly sensitive to parameter initialization strategies. While several data-driven initialization methods demonstrate significant improvements over standard random sampling, the reasons for their success -- specifically, whether they encode classical statistical signal priors or more complex features -- remain poorly understood. In this study, we explore this phenomenon through a series of experimental analyses leveraging noise pretraining. We pretrain INRs on diverse noise classes (e.g., Gaussian, Dead Leaves, Spectral) and measure their ability to both fit unseen signals and encode priors for an inverse imaging task (denoising). Our analyses on image and video data reveal a surprising finding: simply pretraining on unstructured noise (Uniform, Gaussian) dramatically improves signal fitting capacity compared to all other baselines. However, unstructured noise also yields poor deep image priors for denoising. In contrast, we also find that noise with the classic $1/|f^α|$ spectral structure of natural images achieves an excellent balance of signal fitting and inverse imaging capabilities, performing on par with the best data-driven initialization methods. This finding enables more efficient INR training in applications lacking sufficient prior domain-specific data. For more details, visit project page at https://kushalvyas.github.io/noisepretraining.html
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