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# VQDiffusion
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## Overview
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[Vector Quantized Diffusion Model for Text-to-Image Synthesis](https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.14822) by Shuyang Gu, Dong Chen, Jianmin Bao, Fang Wen, Bo Zhang, Dongdong Chen, Lu Yuan, Baining Guo
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The abstract of the paper is the following:
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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.
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The original codebase can be found [here](https://github.com/microsoft/VQ-Diffusion).
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## Available Pipelines:
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| Pipeline | Tasks | Colab
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| [pipeline_vq_diffusion.py](https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/main/src/diffusers/pipelines/vq_diffusion/pipeline_vq_diffusion.py) | *Text-to-Image Generation* | - |
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## VQDiffusionPipeline
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[[autodoc]] pipelines.vq_diffusion.pipeline_vq_diffusion.VQDiffusionPipeline
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- __call__
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