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Mason Kamb

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Surya Ganguli @suryaganguli.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
A great @quantamagazine.bsky.social article on our theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models lead by @masonkamb.bsky.social See also our paper with new results in version 2: arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292 to be presented as an oral at @icmlconf.bsky.social #icml25
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An analytic theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models
We obtain an analytic, interpretable and predictive theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models. Indeed, score-matching diffusion models can generate highly original images that lie far fro...
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Mason Kamb @masonkamb.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Honored to have had my recent work with @suryaganguli.bsky.social on the mechanisms behind creativity in diffusion models featured in this lovely article by Webb Wright for Quanta magazine!
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Kempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
NEW: Mason Kamb ‪( @masonkamb.bsky.social ‬) from @stanford.edu‬ presents a predictive theory of combinatorial creativity in diffusion models. Watch the video: youtu.be/DP_kGt0-2cg #NeuroAI2025 #AI #ML #NeuroAI
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An Analytic Theory of Creativity in Convolutional Diffusion Models with Mason Kamb
Mason Kamb from Stanford University joined the Frontiers of NeuroAI Symposium on June 6, 2025, to discuss "An Analytic Theory of Creativity in Convolutional ...
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The DOGE etc. damage to US science will have enormous effects that will linger for decades. But they will be sufficiently gradual and diffuse that people who want to pretend the cause wasn't obvious will be able to do so.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 24/03/2025
In another blow to legacy media, I'm hearing that the Trump administration plans to remove The Atlantic from its war-plans group chat. The outlet will be replaced in the chat by the Gateway Pundit.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19/02/2025
real instructive that just by paying attention to the background hum of regular small plane crashes the media has created a perception of a sharp increase
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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Finally got to reading the fascinating & excellent paper by Kamb and Ganguli, which makes a significant contribution to diffusion/GenAI literature & will likely become one of the most-cited works in this space. Unlike many "theoretical" ML studies, theirs is high-dimensional and practical.. 1/n
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Surya Ganguli @suryaganguli.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Our new paper! "Analytic theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models" lead expertly by @masonkamb.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292 Our closed-form theory needs no training, is mechanistically interpretable & accurately predicts diffusion model outputs with high median r^2~0.9
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Mason Kamb @masonkamb.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Excited to finally share this work w/ @suryaganguli.bsky.social Tl;dr: we find the first closed-form analytical theory that replicates the outputs of the very simplest diffusion models, with median pixel wise r^2 values of 90%+. arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292
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