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Meta-Learning With Frozen Diffusion Models Generates Novel Concepts

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What does it mean to create a new concept rather than retrieve a familiar one? I propose that creativity is what's unfamiliar at first but quickly learnable by an adaptive observer, and show that meta-learning through a frozen Diffusion model produces stylistic & conceptual creations.

7:03 AM · May 19, 2026 View on X

Full paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16477

Mengye RenMengye Ren@mengyer

What does it mean to create a new concept rather than retrieve a familiar one? I propose that creativity is what's unfamiliar at first but quickly learnable by an adaptive observer, and show that meta-learning through a frozen Diffusion model produces stylistic & conceptual creations.

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