The Principles of Diffusion Models
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arXiv:2510.21890v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This book presents the core principles that have guided the development of diffusion models, tracing their origins and showing how diverse formulations arise from shared mathematical ideas. Diffusion modeling starts by defining a forward process that gradually corrupts data into noise, linking the data distribution to a simple prior through a continuum of intermediate distributions. The goal is to learn a reverse process that transforms noise back into data while recovering the same intermediates. We describe three complementary views.
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- arXiv:2510.21890v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This book presents the core principles that have guided the development of diffusion models, tracing their origins and showing how diverse formulations arise from shared mathematical ideas.
- Diffusion modeling starts by defining a forward process that gradually corrupts data into noise, linking the data distribution to a simple prior through a continuum of intermediate distributions.
- The goal is to learn a reverse process that transforms noise back into data while recovering the same intermediates.
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