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Invariant Contamination Ratio (ICR)

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A Fisher-information-based metric that decomposes a diffusion model's noise-level-conditioned features into an 'invariant' component (signal that should be constant across augmentations/noise realizations of the same underlying image) and a 'residual' component, then quantifies how much residual variation contaminates the invariant signal — unifying diagnosis of classification-optimal noise level, generative quality, and memorization onset in one measurement.

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structure: Dimensional collapse · models: EDM (Elucidating Diffusion Models), SiT-XL/2, SiT-B/2 · paper: Evaluating the Representation Space of Diffusion Models via Self-Supervised Principles