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Image diffusion models also use transformers nowadays. Here is the original "diffusion transformer" paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09748

Earlier image diffusion models used U-nets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Net

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Many U-net based models such Stable Diffusion V1.5 modified the base architecture to include self-attention and cross-attention layers interleaved between convolution layers.