2011 Denoising Autoencoder Paper Revealed as Origin of Diffusion Models

A 2011 paper by Pascal Vincent proved that denoising autoencoders learn the score function and allow sampling from it, anticipating modern diffusion models. Despite its influence, the paper remains severely underappreciated.

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