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Generative models

Diffusion moves into a compressed latent space

Performing denoising in a learned latent space reduced the computational burden of image synthesis.

Robin Rombach and colleagues

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The contribution

Latent diffusion models combine an image compression model with a diffusion process operating on its latent representation. The work also introduces flexible conditioning, enabling tasks such as text-guided image generation.

What this does not establish

This publication is distinct from the subsequent release of Stable Diffusion. A paper date and a product or model-release date need not match.

Why this date?

The first preprint appeared on 20 December 2021; the conference paper was published in 2022.

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