Nicola Dall'Asen
fodark.bsky.social
Nicola Dall'Asen
@fodark.bsky.social
AI PhD student @ UniPi and UniTn 🇮🇹 Currently @ Meta 🇨🇦
Diffusion models and nerdy stuff.

https://fodark.xyz
Reposted by Nicola Dall'Asen
A common question nowadays: Which is better, diffusion or flow matching? 🤔

Our answer: They’re two sides of the same coin. We wrote a blog post to show how diffusion models and Gaussian flow matching are equivalent. That’s great: It means you can use them interchangeably.
December 2, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by Nicola Dall'Asen
IMO VQGAN is why GANs deserve the NeurIPS test of time award. Suddenly our image representations were an order of magnitude more compact. Absolute game changer for generative modelling at scale, and the basis for latent diffusion models.
Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis
Designed to learn long-range interactions on sequential data, transformers continue to show state-of-the-art results on a wide variety of tasks. In contrast to CNNs, they contain no inductive bias tha...
arxiv.org
November 28, 2024 at 12:09 AM