Summary of Linfusion: 1 Gpu, 1 Minute, 16k Image, by Songhua Liu and Weihao Yu and Zhenxiong Tan and Xinchao Wang
LinFusion: 1 GPU, 1 Minute, 16K Image
by Songhua Liu, Weihao Yu, Zhenxiong Tan, Xinchao Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: 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 The paper proposes a novel linear attention mechanism as an alternative to traditional self-attention operations in modern diffusion models. This approach is designed to address the quadratic time and memory complexity of existing methods, allowing for more efficient generation of high-resolution visual content. The authors identify key features in recently introduced models with linear complexity, such as attention normalization and non-causal inference, which they build upon to introduce a generalized linear attention paradigm. The proposed method, LinFusion, is initialized using pre-trained StableDiffusion (SD) models and distills the knowledge from these pre-trained models. This approach enables satisfactory and efficient zero-shot cross-resolution generation, even on ultra-high resolution images like 16K, while significantly reducing training costs and computational requirements. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper develops a new way to generate high-quality images using a computer model. The traditional method uses attention, which is good for small images but becomes slow and requires lots of memory when dealing with very large images. The authors created a new approach that’s faster and more efficient, called LinFusion. They took existing models and modified them to work better with big images. This new method can generate high-quality images quickly and uses less computer power than the traditional method. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Inference » Self attention » Zero shot
