text-to-text-transfer-transformer VS imagen-pytorch

Google released the T5 paper about 5 years ago:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10683

This included full model weights along with a detailed description of the dataset, training process, and ablations that led them to that architecture. T5 was state-of-the-art on many benchmarks when it was released, but it was of course quickly eclipsed by GPT-3.

Following GPT-3, it became much more common for labs to not release full details or model weights. Prior to that, it was common practice from Google (BERT, T5), Meta (BART), OpenAI (GPT1, GPT2) and others to release full training details and model weights.

[2] - https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10683

T5-style relative encodings https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10683

11. T5: Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer" (2020) - https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10683 (Google Research)

You can find a link to the paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10683

The Text-to-Text Transformer is a type of neural network architecture that is particularly well-suited for natural language processing tasks involving the generation of text. It was introduced in the paper "Attention is All You Need" by Vaswani et al. and has since become a popular choice for many NLP tasks, including language translation, summarization, and text generation

Found relevant code at https://github.com/google-research/text-to-text-transfer-transformer + all code implementations here

If google doesnt, someone like lucidrains probably would implement it, just like he did for imagen and muse.

lucidrains/imagen-pytorch: Implementation of Imagen, Google's Text-to-Image Neural Network, in Pytorch (github.com)

Hi Can someone guide me a little, as to how i can use LAION dataset to train my imagen model? like how i can download the data, and in which format it should be fed to https://github.com/lucidrains/imagen-pytorch code?

If we were to put money into training something, I'd hope we use a better model, like Imagen.

I've been messing around with this open-source implementation. You can get a pretty good idea of the model size by just copying the parameters from the paper.

I'm waiting on this implementation/training of imagen: https://github.com/lucidrains/imagen-pytorch

I'm honestly surprised that they trained a StyleGAN. Recently, the Imagen architecture has been show to be both easier in structure, easier to train, and even faster to produce good results. Combined with the "Elucidating" paper by NVIDIA's Tero Karras you can train a 256px Imagen to tolerable quality within an hour on a RTX 3090.

Here's a PyTorch implementation by the LAION people:

https://github.com/lucidrains/imagen-pytorch

And here's 2 images I sampled after training it for some hours, like 2 hours base model + 4 hours upscaler:

https://imgur.com/a/46EZsJo