How Out-of-Equilibrium Phase Transitions can Seed Pattern Formation in Trained Diffusion Models

arXiv:2603.20092 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-03-20 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-03-20

Updated: 2026-10-13

Terminology

• Diffusion Model — 4× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 4× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Phase Transition — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Phase Transitions — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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