[R] An intuitive intro to spontaneous symmetry breaking in generative diffusion models!

I'm happy to share Gabriel's post on symmetry breaking in diffusion models! Spontaneous symmetry breaking is behind the standard model of particle physics... it turns out it is also behind the generative powers of diffusion models!

In fact, spontaneous symmetry breakings happen when a systems transition from a disordered state to one of the many possible ordered states. In this case, the symmetry of the noise distribution is broken into all the possible generated images.

Link: to the blogpost: [https://gabrielraya.com/blog/2023/symmetry-breaking-diffusion-models/](https://gabrielraya.com/blog/2023/symmetry-breaking-diffusion-models/) …

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