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Diffusion Model — AI Glossary
A generative model that learns to reverse a gradual noising process to produce images, audio, or video from noise.
Overview
Diffusion models power Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, Midjourney, Sora, and Veo. Modern variants use flow matching and rectified flows for fewer denoising steps. For images, latent diffusion models (LDMs) operate in a compressed latent space for efficiency.
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| Topic | multimodal |
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| Last reviewed | 2026-06-24 |
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What is Diffusion Model?
A generative model that learns to reverse a gradual noising process to produce images, audio, or video from noise.
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