Summary of Maskbit: Embedding-free Image Generation Via Bit Tokens, by Mark Weber et al.
MaskBit: Embedding-free Image Generation via Bit Tokens
by Mark Weber, Lijun Yu, Qihang Yu, Xueqing Deng, Xiaohui Shen, Daniel Cremers, Liang-Chieh Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 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 This paper proposes improvements to masked transformer models for class-conditional image generation. The authors present two main contributions: a modernized VQGAN model and an embedding-free generation network operating on bit tokens. The first contribution provides a high-performing, transparent, and reproducible VQGAN model, matching the performance of state-of-the-art methods while revealing previously undisclosed details. The second contribution demonstrates a new state-of-the-art FID score of 1.52 on the ImageNet 256×256 benchmark using a compact generator model with only 305M parameters. The authors’ code is available on GitHub. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps make computers better at creating images from text. They improve two types of computer models: one that translates words into images and another that generates new images directly. The first improvement makes the image-generation process more accurate, transparent, and easy to use. The second improvement allows computers to generate high-quality images without needing complex mathematical representations. This means we can create realistic-looking images from text using less computational power. The code for these improvements is available online. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Embedding » Image generation » Transformer
