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Tim Salimans retweeted
🚀 Excited to share my @GoogleDeepMind student researcher project: Dual-Rate Diffusion✨
⚡ A simple construction that speeds up both regular diffusion and distilled models by interleaving a heavy context encoder with a light conditional denoiser.
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Tim Salimans retweeted
New blog post on our recent paper: Beyond Single Tokens, Distilling Discrete Diffusion.
D-MMD lands on the Pareto frontier of gen PPL vs. diversity, outperforming continuous diffusion distillation approaches — while staying native to discrete tokens.
ehoogeboom.github.io/post/di…
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Touching down now in SF for onboarding at Anthropic! After 7 great years at Google, I'm excited to take on a new challenge and help make Claude even better. Grateful for everything I learned at Google DeepMind and Brain, looking forward to what's next.
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Myth: Discrete diffusion models are naturally fast out of the box. 🤔
Reality: Naive sampling is actually quite slow and inefficient. 🐢
Solution: In our new paper, we show how the right step distillation technique unlocks massive speedups. ⚡️👇
You may think discrete distillation is fundamentally flawed, you are (surprisingly) wrong. 🤯
Meet Discrete Moment Distillation (D-MMD). It is a new method that brings fast, few-step sampling to discrete diffusion models! 🧵👇
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VAEs are back! 🚀 By co-training a diffusion prior with an encoder and diffusion decoder we obtain a powerful recipe for compressing visual data into a controllable number of bits. By modeling this VAE latent space we obtain SOTA results with smaller models and fewer FLOPs!
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1/6 Introducing Unified Latents: what if your diffusion model's latents were measured in bits? Instead of relying on dimensionality reduction, we learn a latent AE with explicit bitrate control.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.17270
@emiel_hoogeboom, @TimSalimans
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6 Aug 2025
Really awesome to see the full potential of real-time generative modeling being realized! Helping to enable this has been a driving goal of our research in efficient generative models for a long time!
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What if you could not only watch a generated video, but explore it too? 🌐
Genie 3 is our groundbreaking world model that creates interactive, playable environments from a single text prompt.
From photorealistic landscapes to fantasy realms, the possibilities are endless. 🧵
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Tim Salimans retweeted
16 Dec 2024
Veo 2 and the new Imagen 3 update just dropped. Amazing effort by the team!!
16 Dec 2024
Today, we’re announcing Veo 2: our state-of-the-art video generation model which produces realistic, high-quality clips from text or image prompts. 🎥
We’re also releasing an improved version of our text-to-image model, Imagen 3 - available to use in ImageFX through @LabsDotGoogle. → goo.gle/veo-2-imagen-3
ALT Prompt: An extreme close-up of a craftsperson's hands shaping a glowing piece of pottery on a wheel. Threads of golden, luminous energy connect the potter’s hands to the clay, swirling dynamically with their movements.
ALT Prompt: A portrait of an Asian woman with neon green lights in the background, shallow depth of field.
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12 Dec 2024
Are you a current PhD student working in generative modeling? Our team at GDM Amsterdam is looking to hire a student researcher / intern to help us develop the next generation of models. Apply before 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟑! google.com/about/careers/app…
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On my way to Vancouver for NeurIPS. Looking forward to catching up with everyone and sharing the work we've been doing in making diffusion models fast and efficient!
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A common question nowadays: Which is better, diffusion or flow matching? 🤔
Our answer: They’re two sides of the same coin. We wrote a blog post to show how diffusion models and Gaussian flow matching are equivalent. That’s great: It means you can use them interchangeably.
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Tim Salimans retweeted
28 Oct 2024
Is pixel diffusion passé?
In 'Simpler Diffusion' (arxiv.org/abs/2410.19324) , we achieve 1.5 FID on ImageNet512, and SOTA on 128x128 and 256x256.
We ablated out a lot of complexity, making it truly 'simpler'. w/ @tejmensink @JonathanHeek @KayLamerigts @RuiqiGao @TimSalimans
ALT Pixel-space diffusion performance over the years.
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Tim Salimans retweeted
25 Sep 2024
We are hiring on the Generative Media team in London: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmin…
We work on Imagen, Veo, Lyria and all that good stuff. Come work with us! If you're interested, don't delay -- apply before 5PM tomorrow (UK time).
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Tim Salimans retweeted
11 Jul 2024
🚀 Interested in time series generation?⏲️Excited to share my @GoogleDeepMind Amsterdam student researcher project: Rolling Diffusion Models!
arxiv.org/abs/2402.09470 (to appear at ICML 2024)
Thanks for the great collaboration @emiel_hoogeboom, @JonathanHeek, @TimSalimans! 🧵1/4
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We have a new distillation method that actually *improves* upon its teacher.
Moment Matching distillation (arxiv.org/abs/2406.04103) creates fast stochastic samplers by matching data expectations between teacher and student.
Work with @emiel_hoogeboom @JonathanHeek @tejmensin.
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oops dropped a k there: That's my highly valued colleague Thomas Mensink @tejmensink of course!
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A unique advantage of our method compared to previous approaches (consistency models, Diff-Instruct, DMD, GANs), is that the moment matching perspective gives us a well-defined loss function we can use to monitor progress and convergence of the distillation algorithm.
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5/4 If this sounds interesting, come find me at CVPR, where on June 17th I'll be giving several talks on this and other work our team has been doing!
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My team in Amsterdam is hiring a research scientist with experience in generative modeling. Please apply if you want to help us build the next generation of Google's generative models!
boards.greenhouse.io/deepmin…
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