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Diffusion Models

Ho et al. (2020) show that a network trained to remove noise step by step can generate images, building on ideas from non-equilibrium physics.

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Sohl-Dickstein and colleagues proposed the method in 2015, and 2020 results made it competitive. It powers most image and video generators, including Stable Diffusion.

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