Summary of Simple Drop-in Lora Conditioning on Attention Layers Will Improve Your Diffusion Model, by Joo Young Choi et al.
Simple Drop-in LoRA Conditioning on Attention Layers Will Improve Your Diffusion Model
by Joo Young Choi, Jaesung R. Park, Inkyu Park, Jaewoong Cho, Albert No, Ernest K. Ryu
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 May 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 Current state-of-the-art diffusion models employ U-Net architectures containing convolutional and self-attention layers. These models process images while being conditioned on time embedding inputs for each sampling step and class or caption embedding inputs corresponding to the desired conditional generation. The standard approach involves scale-and-shift operations to convolutional layers but does not directly affect attention layers, which feels arbitrary and potentially suboptimal. This paper investigates adding LoRA conditioning to attention layers without changing or tuning other parts of the U-Net architecture. Results show that this simple addition improves image generation quality, specifically for unconditional and class-conditional CIFAR-10 generation with EDM diffusion models achieving FID scores of 1.91/1.75 compared to the baseline of 1.97/1.79. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you’re creating images using a special kind of AI model. These models are very good at making realistic pictures, but they don’t always get it right. The problem is that the parts of the model that decide what to pay attention to in an image aren’t being told anything about what the image should look like. This paper shows that if you give these “attention” parts some information about what kind of image you want to create, the images will be even better. They tested this idea on a special type of image called CIFAR-10 and found that it worked really well, reducing errors by 0.06. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Diffusion » Embedding » Image generation » Lora » Self attention
