Summary of Rl For Consistency Models: Faster Reward Guided Text-to-image Generation, by Owen Oertell et al.
RL for Consistency Models: Faster Reward Guided Text-to-Image Generation
by Owen Oertell, Jonathan D. Chang, Yiyi Zhang, Kianté Brantley, Wen Sun
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a framework for fine-tuning consistency models via reinforcement learning (RL) to optimize text-to-image generative models for task-specific rewards and enable fast training and inference. The framework, called Reinforcement Learning for Consistency Model (RLCM), frames the iterative inference process of a consistency model as an RL procedure. RLCM is compared to RL-finetuned diffusion models, showing it trains significantly faster, improves generation quality measured under reward objectives, and speeds up inference by generating high-quality images in as few as two steps. The paper demonstrates RLCM’s ability to adapt text-to-image consistency models to challenging objectives, such as image compressibility and aesthetic quality derived from human feedback. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Reinforcement learning helps computers learn to generate great-looking pictures! Currently, computer-generated pictures are made by repeating a process many times. But this new way of learning lets the computer make a picture in just one or two steps. This is important because it makes the whole process faster and more efficient. The researchers also showed that their method can make images that are really good at following instructions or looking nice, which is hard to do with current methods. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Fine tuning * Inference * Reinforcement learning
