[HN Gopher] The Principles of Diffusion Models
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       The Principles of Diffusion Models
        
       Author : Anon84
       Score  : 113 points
       Date   : 2025-11-09 16:10 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | JustFinishedBSG wrote:
       | CTRL-F: "Fokker-Planck"
       | 
       | > 97 matches
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       | Ok I'll read it :)
        
         | joaquincabezas wrote:
         | why am I only getting 26 matches? where's the threshold then?
         | :D
        
       | dvrp wrote:
       | hn question: how is this not a dupe of my days old submission
       | (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743810) ?
        
         | borski wrote:
         | It is, but dupes are allowed in some cases:
         | 
         | "Are reposts ok?
         | 
         | If a story has not had significant attention in the last year
         | or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury
         | reposts as duplicates."
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
         | 
         | Also, from the guidelines: "Please don't post on HN to ask or
         | tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com."
        
       | smokel wrote:
       | If you're more into videos, be sure to check out Stefano Ermon's
       | CS236 Deep Generative Models [1]. All lectures are available on
       | YouTube [2].
       | 
       | [1] https://deepgenerativemodels.github.io/
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       | [2] https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rPOWA-
       | omMM6ST...
        
       | mlmonkey wrote:
       | 470 pages?!?!?!? FML! :-D
        
       | leptons wrote:
       | Reading this reinforces that a lot of what makes up current "AI"
       | is brute forcing and not actually intelligent or thoughtful.
       | Although I suppose our meat-minds could also be brute-forcing
       | everything throughout our entire lives, and consciousness is like
       | a chat prompt sitting on top of the machinery of the mind. But
       | artificial intelligence will always be just as soulless and
       | unfulfilling as artificial flavors.
        
         | dhampi wrote:
         | Guessing you're a physicist based on the name. You don't think
         | automatically doing RG flow in reverse has beauty to it?
         | 
         | There's a lot of "force" in statistics, but that force relies
         | on pretty deep structures and choices.
        
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