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What are Diffusion Models?

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Jul 21, 2026

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[Updated on 2021-09-19: Highly recommend this blog post on score-based generative modeling by Yang Song (author of several key papers in the references)]. [Updated on 2022-08-27: Added classifier-free guidance , GLIDE , unCLIP and Imagen . [Updated on 2022-08-31: Added latent diffusion model . [Updated on 2024-04-13: Added progressive distillation , consistency models , and the Model Architecture section .

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A rigorous, continuously-updated technical walkthrough of diffusion models — from the DDPM math to consistency models and latent diffusion — that gives engineers the conceptual grounding to actually build with or fine-tune generative image/video systems.

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