If you work in machine learning, then you will have noticed that score-based diffusion models are busy taking over the world: most notably through impressive projects like DALL·E 2 and Imagen. Correspondingly, the internet has become awash with how-tos and explainer posts for how score-based diffusions work. (e.g. one/two/three etc.) Now these posts are generally pretty complicated, and I haven’t seen much intuition offered on score-based diffusions. So, it’s time to throw my hat in the ...
