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A 2024 paper by Ermon's group showed that a diffusion model could match an autoregressive model's quality at approximately GPT-2 scale.
Stefano Ermon · Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon · 18 Sept 2026
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“We published a paper basically showing that for the first time it was possible to match the quality of an autoregressive model at the GPT-2 scale.”Play from 5:06Report a misattribution
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