PnP-CM: Consistency Models as Plug-and-Play Priors for Inverse Problems
Diffusion models have found extensive use in solving inverse problems, by sampling from an approximate posterior distribution of data given the measurements. Recently, consistency models (CMs) have been proposed to directly predict the final output from any point on the diffusion ODE trajectory, enabling high-quality sampling in just a few neural function evaluations (NFEs). CMs have also been utilized for inverse problems, but existing CM-based solvers either require additional task-specific training or utilize data fidelity operations with slow convergence, limiting their applicability to large-scale problems and making them difficult to extend to nonlinear settings. In this work, we reinterpret CMs as proximal operators of a prior, enabling their integration into plug-and-play (PnP) frameworks. Specifically, we propose PnP-CM, an ADMM-based PnP solver that provides a unified framework for solving a wide range of inverse problems, and incorporates noise perturbations and momentum-based updates to improve performance in the low-NFE regime. We evaluate our approach on a diverse set of linear and nonlinear inverse problems. We also train and apply CMs to MRI data for the first time. Our results show that PnP-CM achieves high-quality reconstructions in as few as 4 NFEs, and produces meaningful results in 2 steps, highlighting its effectiveness in real-world inverse problems while outperforming existing CM-based approaches.
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