June 2026 Course - Lecture 5: DDIM and Faster Sampling

423 Pages, including 107 vid tutorials. More lessons will be uploaded.

Core paper:

Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models
Jiaming Song, Chenlin Meng, Stefano Ermon, 2020

Topics:

• Why DDPM is slow

• Fewer sampling steps

• Deterministic sampling

• The idea behind denoising strength in image-to-image workflows

Engineering connection:

• Samplers

• Sampling steps

• Image-to-image strength

• Why different samplers produce different results