Stable Diffusion from Scratch
Convolutions, attention, VAEs, diffusion, UNet and CLIP, explained with the maths and implemented in TensorFlow. Every part builds on the one before it.
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Practical AI, explained three ways: the intuition, the understanding behind it, and an implementation you can run. Deep dives come as series, read in order; everything else is a standalone article.
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Series
Multi-part deep dives. Each one is a single track you read from part 01 onwards.
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Standalone pieces: paper notes, opinions and experiments.
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- Jan 12 Diffusion, Classifier-Free Guidance, UNet and CLIP Stable Diffusion from Scratch · 05
- Jan 12 Variational Auto-Encoders Stable Diffusion from Scratch · 04
- Jan 12 Attention Mechanisms Explained Stable Diffusion from Scratch · 03
- Jan 12 Convolution Layers Explained Stable Diffusion from Scratch · 02
- Jan 12 Introduction and Prerequisites Stable Diffusion from Scratch · 01
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