Summary of Efficient Scaling Of Diffusion Transformers For Text-to-image Generation, by Hao Li et al.
Efficient Scaling of Diffusion Transformers for Text-to-Image Generation
by Hao Li, Shamit Lal, Zhiheng Li, Yusheng Xie, Ying Wang, Yang Zou, Orchid Majumder, R. Manmatha, Zhuowen Tu, Stefano Ermon, Stefano Soatto, Ashwin Swaminathan
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL); 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 investigates the scalability of Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) for text-to-image generation by analyzing various models with parameter ranges from 0.3B to 8B on datasets up to 600M images. The study finds that U-ViT, a self-attention-based DiT model, offers a simpler design and scales more effectively than cross-attention-based variants, allowing for straightforward expansion into new conditions and modalities. The paper also identifies a 2.3B U-ViT model as the best performer in controlled settings, outperforming SDXL UNet and other DiT variants. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study looks at how to make machines generate better images from text descriptions. It tries many different models with different numbers of parameters on big datasets. The researchers find that one type of model called U-ViT is the best because it’s simple and can handle lots of data. This means it could be used for things like generating images for video games or creating new memes. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Cross attention » Diffusion » Image generation » Self attention » Unet » Vit
