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Diffusion Models
The architecture behind most modern image and video generators, including Stable Diffusion and the image models inside the major assistants. Works by learning to reverse a noise-adding process, start from pure noise, gradually denoise to create an image. Replaced GANs as the dominant generative approach.
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DDPMNoise scheduleDenoisingU-Net backboneClassifier-free guidance
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