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Diffusion models for image generation
Artificial intelligence · Generative AI
Jonathan Ho, Ajay Jain and Pieter Abbeel presented probabilistic diffusion models with strong image-synthesis results. Learning to reverse a noise process provided a generative approach later extended to text-guided systems.
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