2011 Paper Reveals Origin of Diffusion Models in Denoising Autoencoders
cloneofsimo · x · 2026-08-31
Highlights a 2011 paper that identified denoising autoencoders as learning the score of a model, enabling sampling—the origin of diffusion models. Despite its immense influence, the paper remains underrated.
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