Denoising loop / scheduler
Generation runs the same network many times, each pass removing a bit of noise under the scheduler’s plan.
Popularized inJun 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
A diffusion model is executed in a loop: starting from pure noise, the network predicts (and the scheduler removes) a slice of noise at each step, gradually revealing the image. The scheduler defines the noise timetable and update rule. Flow-matching variants learn a straighter path that needs far fewer steps. In the graph this whole loop appears as a single ‘denoise step’ stage that runs N times.
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Comfy-Org/MiniMax-H3↓ 11.8M · ♡ 1kOpen in visualizer
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3image-text-to-video · ↓ 2.0M · ♡ 4kOpen in visualizer
Lightricks/LTX-2.3image-to-video · ↓ 1.7M · ♡ 2kOpen in visualizer
stable-diffusion-v1-5/stable-diffusion-v1-5text-to-image · ↓ 1.5M · ♡ 1kOpen in visualizer
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0text-to-image · ↓ 1.5M · ♡ 8kOpen in visualizer
stabilityai/sdxl-turbotext-to-image · ↓ 1.3M · ♡ 3kOpen in visualizer
black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-devimage-to-image · ↓ 1.1M · ♡ 2kOpen in visualizer
Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbotext-to-image · ↓ 934k · ♡ 5kOpen in visualizer
Lightricks/LTX-Videoimage-to-video · ↓ 560k · ♡ 2kOpen in visualizer
black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-devtext-to-image · ↓ 517k · ♡ 14kOpen in visualizer
Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2509image-to-image · ↓ 442k · ♡ 1kOpen in visualizer
CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4text-to-image · ↓ 432k · ♡ 7kOpen in visualizer
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