Diffusion Models Made Easy

Understanding the Basics of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

J. Rafid Siddiqui, PhD
Towards Data Science
7 min readMay 2, 2022

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Figure 1: Process of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (Image by author)

1. Introduction

In the recent past, I have talked about GANs and VAEs as two important Generative Models that have found a lot of success and recognition. GANs work great for multiple applications however, they are difficult to train, and their output lack diversity due to…

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