latent-diffusion VS VQGAN-CLIP

Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) is the latest text-to-image generation model developed by Stability AI, based on the latent diffusion techniques. SDXL has the potential to create highly realistic images for media, entertainment, education, and industry domains, opening new ways in practical uses of AI imagery.

Here's a link to the early latent-diffusion git, that might be able to create a blank model (I haven't tested it): https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion

Latent diffusion could work for you: https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion (https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10752)

There are a lot but the one implemented as LDSR in most stable guis is this one. https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion

CompVis/latent-diffusion: High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models (github.com)

The "retrieval based model" refers to https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion#retrieval-augmen..., which uses ScaNN to train a knn embedding searcher.

Stability is basically https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion + training data.

Found relevant code at https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion + all code implementations here

DDIM and PLMS were the original samplers. They were part of Latent Diffusion's repository. They stand for the papers that introduced them, Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models and Pseudo Numerical Methods for Diffusion Models on Manifolds.

yes, https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion

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