Generative models· 2020
Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models
On the reading lists
- #177 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #10 in Generative models (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Introduced non-Markovian diffusion sampling, enabling dramatically faster deterministic generation.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2020 (from arXiv 2010.02502)
- Published
- 2021
- Citations
- 13,950 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.562 · computed rank 177 · consensus 0.66, must-read 0.5, citations percentile 0.897 (2020s · generative-models), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each count names its source. See the method.