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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Diffusion model?

Definition 16.4 Machine Learning for Markets · Chapter 16 — Generative Models and Synthetic Data

A diffusion model learns to reverse a process that gradually adds Gaussian noise to the data: a network is trained to predict the noise added to a sample at each of TT steps, and new samples are generated by starting from pure noise and removing the predicted noise step by step (Ho, Jain and Abbeel, 2020).

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