arXiv Machine Learning By Kentaro Kaba, Masayuki Ohzeki, Yuki Sughiyama

Simulation-free and finite-time diffusion model

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arXiv:2608. 03117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The performance of generative diffusion models is determined by the choice of the reference diffusion process connecting the empirical and prior distributions.

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