Cogview2: Faster And Better Text-to-image Generation Via Hierarchical Transformers

Ding Ming, Zheng Wendi, Hong Wenyi, Tang Jie. Arxiv 2022

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Model Architecture Multimodal Models Pretraining Methods Reinforcement Learning Training Techniques Transformer

The development of the transformer-based text-to-image models are impeded by its slow generation and complexity for high-resolution images. In this work, we put forward a solution based on hierarchical transformers and local parallel auto-regressive generation. We pretrain a 6B-parameter transformer with a simple and flexible self-supervised task, Cross-modal general language model (CogLM), and finetune it for fast super-resolution. The new text-to-image system, CogView2, shows very competitive generation compared to concurrent state-of-the-art DALL-E-2, and naturally supports interactive text-guided editing on images.

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