Atlases Are Already Inside: Recovering Population Templates by Making Diffusion Models Collapse

kwangmoo_yi · x · 2026-09-29

Sample collapse in diffusion models is usually seen as a flaw, but Shi et al.'s paper 'Atlases Are Already Inside' shows you can deliberately induce collapse to recover population atlas templates from pretrained models—turning an annoyance into a useful extraction technique.

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