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Diffusion uses an effectively infinite number of latent variables and relies on the assumption that the density can be decomposed.

Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sep 2026

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“And what you do in diffusion is you give yourself these infinite numbers of latents and say,”
“well, given the infinite number, it has to be decomposable in some point, in some way.”
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