Step-by-Step Diffusion: An Elementary Tutorial
Preetum Nakkiran, Arwen Bradley, Hattie Zhou, Madhu Advani · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024
We present an accessible first course on diffusion models and flow matching for machine learning, aimed at a technical audience with no diffusion experience. We try to simplify the mathematical details as much as possible (sometimes heuristically), while retaining enough precision to derive correct algorithms.