Summary of Textcraftor: Your Text Encoder Can Be Image Quality Controller, by Yanyu Li et al.
TextCraftor: Your Text Encoder Can be Image Quality Controller
by Yanyu Li, Xian Liu, Anil Kag, Ju Hu, Yerlan Idelbayev, Dhritiman Sagar, Yanzhi Wang, Sergey Tulyakov, Jian Ren
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 Mar 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 This paper presents a study on improving the performance of diffusion-based text-to-image generative models, specifically Stable Diffusion. The authors identify limitations in current models’ ability to align images with input texts, requiring multiple runs and crafted prompts. They propose TextCraftor, a fine-tuning approach for enhancing the CLIP text encoder used in Stable Diffusion, leading to improved quantitative benchmarks and human assessments. Interestingly, this technique also enables controllable image generation through interpolation of different text encoders. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper shows that instead of replacing the CLIP text encoder with other large language models, it’s possible to fine-tune it for better performance. This approach, called TextCraftor, makes images align well with input texts and lets users control image generation by interpolating different text encoders. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion * Encoder * Fine tuning * Image generation
