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Mike Young @mikeyoung44

AI Simplifies Image Generation With Score-of-Mixture Training

New AI method, Score-of-Mixture Training (SMT), simplifies image generation with competitive performance on CIFAR-10 & ImageNet datasets. Simple implementation with minimal tuning required.

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New framework called Score-of-Mixture Training (SMT) for one-step generative models
Uses alpha-skew Jensen-Shannon divergence to estimate score mixtures
Supports both training from scratch and distillation from existing models
Competitive performance on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet datasets
Simple implementation with minimal tuning r...