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superseded by latent diffusion, which denoises in a compressed VAE latent instead of at full resolution; pixel-space diffusion survives inside cascaded super-resolution and relay upsampling stages

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superseded by latent diffusion, which denoises in a compressed VAE latent instead of at full resolution; pixel-space diffusion survives inside cascaded super-resolution and relay upsampling stages

Diffusion Trained Directly in Pixel Space

denoising at full resolution is the obvious first design and its compute cost is exactly what latent diffusion exists to fix