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The speaker says diffusion models' synthetic time dimension increases the neural network's representational burden and slows training.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“The downside of diffusion models is that we now bloat the representation with a synthetic time dimension T_”
“This extra costs the neural network needs to work with and also slows down training.”Play from 26:19Report a misattribution
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