Diffusion Model Architecture Timeline (2019 - 2025)
| Year |
Model |
Type |
| 2019 |
|
|
NCSN |
Non-text conditioned |
| 2020 |
|
|
NCSNv2 |
Non-text conditioned |
|
DDPM |
Non-text conditioned |
| 2021 |
|
|
SDE |
Non-text conditioned |
|
IDDPM |
Non-text conditioned |
|
ADM |
Non-text conditioned |
|
EDM |
Non-text conditioned |
| 2022 |
|
|
U-ViT |
Diffusion model |
|
DiT |
Non-text conditioned |
|
SD v2.1 |
U-Net text-to-image |
| 2023 |
|
|
SiD |
Non-text conditioned |
|
MDT |
Non-text conditioned |
|
Kandinsky |
U-Net text-to-image |
|
UniDiffuser |
Text-to-image |
|
SDXL |
U-Net text-to-image |
|
Kandinsky 3 |
U-Net text-to-image |
|
PixArt-α |
DiT text-to-image |
| 2024 |
|
|
SiT |
Non-text conditioned |
|
FiT |
Non-text conditioned |
|
MDTv2 |
Non-text conditioned |
|
U-DiT |
Non-text conditioned |
|
DiG |
Non-text conditioned |
|
REPA |
Non-text conditioned |
|
LiT |
Non-text conditioned |
|
Stable Cascade |
U-Net text-to-image |
|
Lumina-T2I |
DiT text-to-image |
|
PixArt-Σ |
DiT text-to-image |
|
Lumina-Next-T2I |
DiT text-to-image |
|
SD3 |
DiT text-to-image |
|
Flux.1-Dev |
DiT text-to-image |
|
CogView3-Plus-2B |
DiT text-to-image |
|
HunyuanDiT |
DiT text-to-image |
| 2025 |
|
|
REG |
Non-text conditioned |
|
JiT |
Non-text conditioned |
|
SANA |
DiT text-to-image |
|
Lumina-Image 2.0 |
DiT text-to-image |
|
SANA 1.5 |
DiT text-to-image |
|
HiDream-I1-Dev |
DiT text-to-image |
|
CogView4-6B |
DiT text-to-image |
|
Qwen-Image |
DiT text-to-image |