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An unnormalized density over images is not especially helpful for assessing how natural an image is, according to Tom McGrath.

Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sep 2026

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“from score functions and the idea of this was like you could you could sort of effectively via some clever diffusion model tricks learn not an unnormalized density over images which is not especially helpful for saying like how how where”
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