diff --git a/invokeai/app/invocations/denoise_latents.py b/invokeai/app/invocations/denoise_latents.py
index d5e705ea28..5f00da6dad 100644
--- a/invokeai/app/invocations/denoise_latents.py
+++ b/invokeai/app/invocations/denoise_latents.py
@@ -669,6 +669,18 @@ class DenoiseLatentsInvocation(BaseInvocation):
     def prepare_noise_and_latents(
         context: InvocationContext, noise_field: LatentsField | None, latents_field: LatentsField | None
     ) -> Tuple[int, torch.Tensor | None, torch.Tensor]:
+        """Depending on the workflow, we expect different combinations of noise and latents to be provided. This
+        function handles preparing these values accordingly.
+
+        Expected workflows:
+        - Text-to-Image Denoising: `noise` is provided, `latents` is not. `latents` is initialized to zeros.
+        - Image-to-Image Denoising: `noise` and `latents` are both provided.
+        - Text-to-Image SDXL Refiner Denoising: `latents` is provided, `noise` is not.
+        - Image-to-Image SDXL Refiner Denoising: `latents` is provided, `noise` is not.
+
+        NOTE(ryand): I wrote this docstring, but I am not the original author of this code. There may be other workflows
+        I haven't considered.
+        """
         noise = None
         if noise_field is not None:
             noise = context.tensors.load(noise_field.latents_name)
diff --git a/invokeai/backend/stable_diffusion/diffusers_pipeline.py b/invokeai/backend/stable_diffusion/diffusers_pipeline.py
index d5a37a2054..9c532cec3e 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/stable_diffusion/diffusers_pipeline.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/stable_diffusion/diffusers_pipeline.py
@@ -298,8 +298,7 @@ class StableDiffusionGeneratorPipeline(StableDiffusionPipeline):
         batch_size = latents.shape[0]
         batched_t = init_timestep.expand(batch_size)
 
-        # NOTE(ryand): noise will be None if we are running the SDXL refiner. I can't think of any other reason that
-        # we'd want noise to be None, but I didn't write this logic, so there might be a reason I haven't thought of.
+        # noise can be None if the latents have already been noised (e.g. when running the SDXL refiner).
         if noise is not None:
             # latents = noise * self.scheduler.init_noise_sigma # it's like in t2l according to diffusers
             latents = self.scheduler.add_noise(latents, noise, batched_t)