Equal Path Cost, Unequal Output Effects: Understanding Perturbation Propagation in Diffusion Models

arXiv:2610.11380 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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