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Re:Diffusion Models Are Evolutionary Algorithms by EvoQ on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @07:36PM (#42131857)
I think that evolutionary algorithms, updates are by natural selection, diffusion models, updates by denoising. Perturbations in evolutionary algorithms using mutations, difusion model is done with difusion process.

Seems cool!

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Re:Diffusion Models Are Evolutionary Algorithms by flir on Thursday November 14, 2024 @08:10AM (#42135844)
> evolutionary algorithms, updates are by natural selection, diffusion models, updates by denoising

but are they not both fitness functions? couldn't an EA use something akin to denoising as its fitness function and still be an EA?

(genuine question, complete layman here).

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