Yeah, that's the first formal reference I remember as well (although, BERT is probably the first thing NLP folks will think of after reading about diffusion).

Yeah, that's the first formal reference I remember as well (although, BERT is probably the first thing NLP folks will think of after reading about diffusion). I collected a few other text-diffusion early references here about 3 years ago: https://github.com/madaan/minimal-text-diffusion?tab=readme-ov-file https://github.com/madaan/minimal-text-diffusion?tab=readme-....