Unlocking the Mysteries of Diffusion Models: An In-Depth Exploration

Author(s): Youssef Hosni

Originally published on Towards AI.

Understanding the Basics Behind Most Powerful Image Generation Models

Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and others are able to generate an image, sometimes a beautiful image, given only a text prompt. You may have heard of a vague description of these algorithms learning to subtract noise to generate an image. In this article, we will go through a concrete explanation of the diffusion model upon which all the recent models are based.

By the end of this article, you will understand the technical details of exactly how it works. We will start with the intuition behind it and then understand the sampling process, starting with pure noise and progressively refining it… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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