My learning path towards understanding Diffusion Models

1. Mnist DDPM & Improved DDPM

Epochs samples with posterior variance set to

${\sigma_t}^2 = \frac{1 - \bar{\alpha}{t-1}}{1 - \bar{\alpha{t}}}\beta_t$ ,   and   ${\sigma_t}^2 = \beta_t$

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2. Mnist DDIM with Diffusion AutoEncoder

Original samples (left) and restored samples (right)

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