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Denoising Score Matching with Random Features: Insights on Diffusion Models From Precise Learning Curves

George, Anand Jerry  
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Veiga, Rodrigo  
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Macris, Nicolas  
May 3, 2026
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2026
29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2026)

We theoretically investigate the phenomena of generalization and memorization in diffusion models. Empirical studies suggest that these phenomena are influenced by model complexity and the size of the training dataset. In our experiments, we further observe that the number of noise samples per data sample (m) used during Denoising Score Matching (DSM) plays a significant and non-trivial role. We capture these behaviors and shed insights into their mechanisms by deriving asymptotically precise expressions for test and train errors of DSM under a simple theoretical setting. The score function is parameterized by random features neural networks, with the target distribution being d-dimensional Gaussian. We operate in a regime where the dimension d, number of data samples n, and number of features p tend to infinity while keeping the ratios ψ n = n d and ψ p = p d fixed. By characterizing the test and train errors, we identify regimes of generalization and memorization as a function of ψ n , ψ p , and m. Our theoretical findings are consistent with the empirical observations.

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