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Jeremy Howard β€” The Simple but Profound Insight Behind Diffusion

Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

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Diffusion Models

It's a simple but profound insight, which is that it's very difficult for a model to generate something creative and aesthetic from nothing. And the profound insight is to say why don't we not ask a model to do that directly? But why don'tWe train amodel to do something a little bit better than nothing? That's the insight behind diffusion models. As you'd be well aware, Lucas, it's not a new insight. It's the same basic insight that all that belongs to this class of models called boosted models.

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