In the [Common Diffusion Noise Schedules and Sample Steps are Flawed](https://hf.co/papers/2305.08891) paper, the authors discovered that common noise schedules allowed some signal to leak into the last timestep. This signal leakage at inference can cause models to only generate images with medium brightness. By enforcing a zero signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the timstep schedule and sampling from the last timestep, the model can be improved to generate very bright or dark images.  
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