Robin Rombach
Author of Latent Diffusion
Stable Diffusion
Rating
90Impact score
Domains
Diffusion modelsGenerative imageryOpen weights
Scouting report
Lead author of the latent diffusion paper — run the diffusion in a compressed latent space and image generation suddenly fits on a consumer GPU — which became Stable Diffusion. Its open release in 2022 put image generation in everyone’s hands overnight and set off both an explosion of tooling and a still-unresolved argument about training data.
Curator’s note
The single release that made generative imagery a public technology.
Sources
- 01High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models (2021) arxiv.org
- 02Stable Diffusion en.wikipedia.org