DALLE2-pytorch VS VQGAN-CLIP

I was showing people Dalle2 last year and telling them how much of an impact an open source solution was going to have on, well, everything to do with art and design. (At the time Stable Diffusion had not released, not even the leak, and all hopes was on https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch)

Stable diffusion is the model, MJ will use a variant and DALL-E is the old version (we have our own implementation from our distinguished fellow Lucidrains here: https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch)

Sadly I don't think so. From what I understand the architecture is fixed to 1024x1024 pictures.

The code is open source, the model is not I believe. https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch

Phil Wang has been fairly prolific at creating open source implementations of these text to image models. For example, here is the dalle-2 repo https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch

There's already an open-source implementation of DALL-E 2 (https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch) and a pretrained model for it should be released within this year.

Also true for Google's Imagen, which should be even better than DALLE-2 (and faster) https://github.com/lucidrains/imagen-pytorch.

This is possible because the original research papers behind both DALLE-2 and Imagen were publicly released.

The paper describing the model is public and has been implemented here, but that's not the hard part. The model likely requires months of compute and dozens of gigabytes of VRAM to train and run, likely costing several hundred thousand dollars.

VQGAN-CLIP

I've screwed with many text-to-image models over the past couple of years, and I found that while I currently enjoy Stable Diffusion's coherency, I have a soft spot for the ImageNet model used by default for VQGAN+CLIP. It easily approaches the uncanny valley when generating people or animals, but makes for great abstract backgrounds and wallpapers. I already have nostalgia for generating images with it on my CPU overnight.

For someone only tangentially familiar with this space, how is this different than e.g. https://github.com/nerdyrodent/VQGAN-CLIP which you can also run at home? Is it the quality of the generated images?

Used https://github.com/nerdyrodent/VQGAN-CLIP

I don't have any of the DALL-Es but I do have a couple from github [1], [2] which gave these outputs[3]

[1] https://github.com/nerdyrodent/VQGAN-CLIP

If you want to try your hand at buggering your whole system - try playing with AI image generation as it uses all possible computer assets :D . There is a lot of forms and installations for those but I VQGANs from github the easiest. Problem is that some require familarity with shell, python and in some cases - you need to enable the Linux subsystem in Windows (is it called a subsystem? it is not exactly a VM). This one is the easiest to install out of all I tried. But I liked the results of Pixray most but I wrecked it. I use this one nowadays.

For those that are interested, I used VQGAN-CLIP, specifically this GitHub repository