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| # VQ Diffusion | |
| [Vector Quantized Diffusion Model for Text-to-Image Synthesis](https://huggingface.co/papers/2111.14822) is by Shuyang Gu, Dong Chen, Jianmin Bao, Fang Wen, Bo Zhang, Dongdong Chen, Lu Yuan, Baining Guo. | |
| The abstract from the paper is: | |
| *We present the vector quantized diffusion (VQ-Diffusion) model for text-to-image generation. This method is based on a vector quantized variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE) whose latent space is modeled by a conditional variant of the recently developed Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM). We find that this latent-space method is well-suited for text-to-image generation tasks because it not only eliminates the unidirectional bias with existing methods but also allows us to incorporate a mask-and-replace diffusion strategy to avoid the accumulation of errors, which is a serious problem with existing methods. Our experiments show that the VQ-Diffusion produces significantly better text-to-image generation results when compared with conventional autoregressive (AR) models with similar numbers of parameters. Compared with previous GAN-based text-to-image methods, our VQ-Diffusion can handle more complex scenes and improve the synthesized image quality by a large margin. Finally, we show that the image generation computation in our method can be made highly efficient by reparameterization. With traditional AR methods, the text-to-image generation time increases linearly with the output image resolution and hence is quite time consuming even for normal size images. The VQ-Diffusion allows us to achieve a better trade-off between quality and speed. Our experiments indicate that the VQ-Diffusion model with the reparameterization is fifteen times faster than traditional AR methods while achieving a better image quality.* | |
| The original codebase can be found at [microsoft/VQ-Diffusion](https://github.com/microsoft/VQ-Diffusion). | |
| <Tip> | |
| Make sure to check out the Schedulers [guide](/using-diffusers/schedulers) to learn how to explore the tradeoff between scheduler speed and quality, and see the [reuse components across pipelines](/using-diffusers/loading#reuse-components-across-pipelines) section to learn how to efficiently load the same components into multiple pipelines. | |
| </Tip> | |
| ## VQDiffusionPipeline | |
| [[autodoc]] VQDiffusionPipeline | |
| - all | |
| - __call__ | |
| ## ImagePipelineOutput | |
| [[autodoc]] pipelines.ImagePipelineOutput | |