Summary of Ominicontrol: Minimal and Universal Control For Diffusion Transformer, by Zhenxiong Tan et al.
OminiControl: Minimal and Universal Control for Diffusion Transformer
by Zhenxiong Tan, Songhua Liu, Xingyi Yang, Qiaochu Xue, Xinchao Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Nov 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 A novel approach called OminiControl rethinks how image conditions are integrated into Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architectures, offering a minimal parameter overhead solution that surpasses specialized methods across multiple conditioning tasks. The approach leverages the DiT’s own VAE encoder and transformer blocks, requiring only 0.1% additional parameters. It also introduces a unified sequence processing strategy combining condition tokens with image tokens for flexible token interactions and a dynamic position encoding mechanism adapting to both spatially-aligned and non-aligned control tasks. The paper presents extensive experiments showing the effectiveness of OminiControl in various conditioning tasks, including subject-driven generation, which is addressed by introducing Subjects200K, a large-scale dataset of identity-consistent image pairs synthesized using DiT models themselves. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary OminiControl is a new way to combine images and conditions in Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architectures. Right now, there are methods that work well for specific tasks but require many extra parameters or don’t handle other tasks well. OminiControl fixes these problems by being simple and flexible. It uses the DiT’s own parts, like the VAE encoder and transformer blocks, which only adds a tiny bit of extra information (0.1%). The method also combines different types of data in a smart way, allowing it to work with both aligned and non-aligned control tasks. The paper shows that OminiControl works well across many tasks, even for subject-driven generation, which is important for generating images that match certain subjects. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Encoder » Token » Transformer
