Diffusion Models as a Kind of Hierarchical VAE

[angusturner]

https://angusturner.github.io/generative_models/2021/06/29/diffusion-probabilistic-models-I.html

[Algomancer]

This is very well written.

I hope work diffusion models develops such that the sample efficiency is improved. There is something really satisfying about how progressive sampling works in these models.

[angusturner]

New blog post exploring diffusion models from the perspective of variational inference, along with PyTorch code.