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HateRedditCantQuitit t1_j60qzvg wrote

Reply to comment by dojoteef in [D] Why are GANs worse than (Latent) Diffusion Models for text2img generation? by TheCockatoo

I always see diffusion/score models contrasted against VAEs, but is there really a good distinction? Especially given latent diffusion and IAFs and all the other blurry lines. I feel like any time you're doing forward training & backwards inference trained with an ELBO objective, it should count as a VAE.

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Zealousideal_Low1287 t1_j6191sq wrote

I guess for it to really count as a variational autoencoder you need to be reconstructing the input

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