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What is a diffusion model?

In short

A diffusion model is a type of AI that generates images by starting from random noise and gradually refining it into a coherent picture, step by step. During training it learns how to reverse the process of adding noise to real images. Diffusion models power many popular image generators, producing detailed visuals from a text description.

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