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oliverx0yesterday at 11:13 PM2 repliesview on HN

Does anyone have good resources into a more practical approach toward building diffusion models? I found the book by Rashka for Building an LLM from Scratch really helpful in understanding a lot of concepts behind LLMs, and I am looking for a similar resource for diffusion models


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throwaway219450yesterday at 11:45 PM

MIT's OCW is usually pretty reliable:

https://www.practical-diffusion.org/lectures/

There is more math-heavy https://diffusion.csail.mit.edu/2026/index.html

Ifkaluvayesterday at 11:24 PM

I really liked Calvin Lou’s tutorial. It’s quite old at this point and probably not up to date, but I felt it was awesome for understanding the concepts