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arXiv:2406.08929cs.LG

Step-by-Step Diffusion: An Elementary Tutorial

Preetum Nakkiran, Arwen Bradley, Hattie Zhou, Madhu Advani

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Abstract

We present an accessible first course on diffusion models and flow matching for machine learning, aimed at a technical audience with no diffusion experience. We try to simplify the mathematical details as much as possible (sometimes heuristically), while retaining enough precision to derive correct algorithms.

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35 pages, 11 figures
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cs.LGMachine Learning cs.AIArtificial Intelligence cs.CVComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition stat.MLMachine Learning (Statistics)

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