[sl8r]

Hey! I’m the post author. Highly recommend Sander Dieleman’s blog for alternative interpretations https://sander.ai/2023/07/20/perspectives.html

I personally find the SDEs the most intuitive, and the deterministic ODE / consistency models / rectified flow stuff as ideas that are easier to understand after the SDEs. But not everyone agrees!

[currymj]

Thanks for sharing this! I tend to agree that it’s easiest to understand this way.

I just find it a frustrating fact about modern machine learning that in fact, the nice SDE interpretation is somehow not the “truth”, it’s just a tool for understanding.