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I feel like Song et al characterized diffusion models as SDEs pretty unambiguously, and it connects to Optimal Transport in a pretty unambiguous manner. I understand the desire to give different perspectives, but once you start using multiple hedge words/qualitatives like:

> basically an approximate version of the Fourier transform!

You should take a step back and ask “am I actually muddying the water right now?”



Oof, you're not going to like this other blog post I wrote then :D https://sander.ai/2023/07/20/perspectives.html


Well, yeah, I don’t know what you expect me to say, it’s sloppy work.


Sorry to hear that. My blog posts are intended to build intuition. I also write academic papers, which of course involves a different standard of rigour. Perhaps you'd prefer those, only one of those is about diffusion models though.




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