The Principles of Diffusion Models

(arxiv.org)

117 points | by Anon84 7 hours ago ago

8 comments

  • smokel 3 hours ago ago

    If you're more into videos, be sure to check out Stefano Ermon's CS236 Deep Generative Models [1]. All lectures are available on YouTube [2].

    [1] https://deepgenerativemodels.github.io/

    [2] https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rPOWA-omMM6ST...

  • leptons an hour ago ago

    Reading this reinforces that a lot of what makes up current "AI" is brute forcing and not actually intelligent or thoughtful. Although I suppose our meat-minds could also be brute-forcing everything throughout our entire lives, and consciousness is like a chat prompt sitting on top of the machinery of the mind. But artificial intelligence will always be just as soulless and unfulfilling as artificial flavors.

    • dhampi an hour ago ago

      Guessing you’re a physicist based on the name. You don’t think automatically doing RG flow in reverse has beauty to it?

      There’s a lot of “force” in statistics, but that force relies on pretty deep structures and choices.

  • mlmonkey an hour ago ago

    470 pages?!?!?!? FML! :-D

  • dvrp 6 hours ago ago

    hn question: how is this not a dupe of my days old submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743810) ?

    • borski 5 hours ago ago

      It is, but dupes are allowed in some cases:

      “Are reposts ok?

      If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.”

      https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

      Also, from the guidelines: “Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.”

  • JustFinishedBSG 6 hours ago ago

    CTRL-F: "Fokker-Planck"

    > 97 matches

    Ok I'll read it :)

    • joaquincabezas 2 hours ago ago

      why am I only getting 26 matches? where's the threshold then? :D