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Alexander Mattick says diffusion models involve KL-divergence minimization in a Wasserstein space.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“How you would expect the information to to proceed through these models. Especially in diffusion, I could say with these diffusion models. In diffusion models we have this uh the structure that they are doing uh how how was it called? That they they are doing K_L divergence minimisation in a Wasserstein space.”Play from 1:07:01Report a misattribution
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