Diffusion Models and Their Applications

Starting from diffusion models and flow matching, extending to discrete generation, one-step generative models, and applications across science and engineering.

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  1. U1 Diffusion Models 0 / 6 From "what does generation learn" to the forward process, denoising regression, Tweedie & score, and DDPM / DDIM / SDE-ODE sampling.
  2. U2 Flow Matching 0 / 6 Is a forward process necessary? Flows and the continuity equation, conditional flow matching, linear paths, and FM vs. diffusion.
  3. U3 Stochastic Interpolants 與共用技巧 0 / 7 One equation for both frameworks: a family of SDE samplers, curvature and error theory, rectified flow, minibatch OT, and shared techniques.
  4. U4 Discrete Diffusion I 0 / 6 How to "add noise" to tokens: discrete states, not discrete time; D3PM transition matrices, masked diffusion as weighted cross-entropy, and factorization error as the discrete analogue of curvature.
  5. U5 Discrete Diffusion II 0 / 7 The language of continuous-time Markov chains: rates and the forward equation beside Fokker–Planck; reverse rates need ratios (concrete score); remasking as a sampler knob; discrete flow matching and applications.
  6. U6 Consistency Models 0 / 7 Can we learn the one-step map directly? Progressive distillation, the consistency function and self-consistency, CD vs. CT, which error each iCT / sCM trick fights, and why multistep CM saturates.
  7. U7 Flow Maps 與分佈匹配 0 / 7 Jumping from t straight to s: the four conditions of a flow map, the three flow-map-matching losses, the MeanFlow identity, Shortcut / AYF, and the failure modes of regression vs. distribution-matching (DMD) distillation.

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