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 [Contributing](doc/CONTRIBUTING.md)
 
+[Citations and references](doc/CITATIONS.md)
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+Everydream 2 trainer is built using various open source technologies and packages.
+## Stable Diffusion:
+
+### Predecessors
+
+Universiteit van Amsterdam - AutoencoderKL from [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6114v11)
+
+Berkeley - DDPM [DDPM](https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11239) - [code](https://github.com/hojonathanho/diffusion)
+
+OpenAI - CLIP (used in SD1.x and SDXL) [Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.00020.pdf) - [github](https://github.com/OpenAI/CLIP)
+
+LAION OpenClip (used in SD2.x and SDXL) [Announcement](https://laion.ai/blog/large-openclip/) - [github](https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip)
+
+### Original Compvis Stable Diffusion (CLIP + LDM + AutoencoderKL)
+[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10752) - [github](https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion)
+
+## Captioning models:
+
+Open Flamingo [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01390) - [github](https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_flamingo)
+
+Salesforce BLIP/BLIP2 [blip paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12086) - [blip2 github (LAVIS)](https://github.com/salesforce/LAVIS) - [blip1 github](https://github.com/salesforce/BLIP)
+
+Kosmos-2 [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14824) - [Github](https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/master/kosmos-2) - [Huggingface](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/kosmos-2-patch14-224)
+
+## Optimizers
+
+Tim Dettmers - 8-bit quantization (adamw8bit, etc) [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02861) - [github](https://github.com/TimDettmers/bitsandbytes)
+
+Facebook - D-Adaptation [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07733) - [github](https://github.com/facebookresearch/dadaptation)
+