“…Menick and Kalchbrenner [53] suggest a similar method based on resolution and bit-depth upscaling, although in a non-parallel way. Previously, generative models, including diffusion models, have been utilized for image deblurring [45,46,1,80], super-resolution [48,65,14,57,7,64,12], and other types of inverse problems [38,11,32,74,10,39]. While our model does effectively perform deblurring/superresolution, the main difference to these works is that instead of using a pre-existing generative model to solve the inverse problem, we do the exact opposite and create a new generative model through iteratively solving an inverse problem using a loss function that directly reverses the heat equation.…”