Latent Diffusion Models: What is all the fuzz about?

TL;DR The following learning notes try to give some intuition on how Stable Diffusion works, some mathematical intuition on Diffusion Models and an introduction to Latent Diffusion Models. The following sources were extensively used during creation of this learning notes. Passages may be reutilized to create a reasonable overview of the topic. Credit goes to the authors of the following papers and posts. Illustrations by Jay Alammar Sohl-Dickstein et al., 2015...

January 20, 2023 · 17 min