Denoising Diffusion Generative Models Secretly Calculate Attentions
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arXiv:2609.00885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Denoising diffusion models are the dominant architecture for image generation, whereas most natural language generation and modeling are primarily handled by well-known transformer architectures employing attention mechanism. Here, we show that diffusion models also inherently use an attention mechanism very similar to that of transformers. Therefore, attention emerges as a universal machine learning principle, based on a general training objective. We also show similarities in basic functional principle of auto-encoders and attention-based model
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.00885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Denoising diffusion models are the dominant architecture for image generation, whereas most natural language generation and modeling are primarily handled by well-known transformer architectures employing attention mechanism.
- Here, we show that diffusion models also inherently use an attention mechanism very similar to that of transformers.
- Therefore, attention emerges as a universal machine learning principle, based on a general training objective.
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