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superseded by denoising diffusion, which covers the data distribution instead of collapsing onto part of it and trains stably; GANs did not vanish, they became a loss term in few-step distillation

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superseded by denoising diffusion, which covers the data distribution instead of collapsing onto part of it and trains stably; GANs did not vanish, they became a loss term in few-step distillation

Adversarial Training as the Default Route to Photorealistic Image Synthesis

students arrive believing image generation means training a GAN; naming that belief as the superseded default is what lets the diffusion half of the spine land