Imagen from Google AI

Saturday 28th May, 2022 - Bruce Sterling

*It’s another text-to-image generator, and it’s pretty good.  “Steampunk 3Dprinters”

 

 

https://imagen.research.google/

 

Imagen research highlights

• We show that large pretrained frozen text encoders are very effective for the text-to-image task.
• We show that scaling the pretrained text encoder size is more important than scaling the diffusion model size.
• We introduce a new thresholding diffusion sampler, which enables the use of very large classifier-free guidance weights.
• We introduce a new Efficient U-Net architecture, which is more compute efficient, more memory efficient, and converges faster.
• On COCO, we achieve a new state-of-the-art COCO FID of 7.27; and human raters find Imagen samples to be on-par with reference images in terms of image-text alignment.