
308 - How Image Diffusion Models Work - the 20 minute explainer
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You already know how LLMs work from our popular 20-minute explainer. Now we take it to images. What does Michelangelo have to do with stable diffusion? More than you'd think. Walk away knowing how image generation actually works — and what it has in common with the text models you already understand.
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Show Notes
- Episode 303 - How LLMs work in 20 minutes - text generation
- VAE -
Variational Autoencoder - RGB Color model - wikipedia
- Word2Vec technique - wikipedia
- Efficient Estimation of Word Representation -
original Word2Vec paper by Mikolov et al.
- Efficient Estimation of Word Representation -
- High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models -
Rombach et al. (2022) — the paper behind Stable Diffusion - Image Training data
- Michelangelo
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