Towards demystifying the creativity of diffusion models

👤 Zhengdao Chen, Research Scientist, Google Research
📅 2026-07-15

We show that a diffusion model’s creativity (its ability to generate novel data, rather than just memorize its training set) is a mathematical consequence of neural networks learning a “smoothed” version of the score function, driving the model to interpolate between training data points along the hidden data manifold. Full Product UX article at Google Research »

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