Chess example shows diffusion models sampling jointly incoherent assignments
alec_helbling · x · 2026-09-05
Follow-up in the same thread: in a chess game either player could plausibly win, but independently sampling positions can yield "Alice won after Alice resigned" — a concrete case of the conditional-independence flaw.
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