AI Technology & Industry Review
Colossal-AI (https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI), the widely-used open-source library for training, inference and fine-tuning of large deep learning models, has released a new automatic parallelism feature and functionality that reduces hardware costs by up to 46 times for AI-Generate Content (AIGC) solutions.
Colossal-AI releases a complete open-source Stable Diffusion pretraining and fine-tuning solution that reduces the pretraining cost by 6.5 times, and the hardware cost of fine-tuning by 7 times, while simultaneously speeding up the processes! The fine-tuning task flow can also be conveniently completed on an RTX 2070/3050 PC.
In the new paper On Distillation of Guided Diffusion Models, researchers from Google Brain and Stanford University propose a novel approach for distilling classifier-free guided diffusion models with high sampling efficiency. The resulting models achieve performance comparable to the original model but with sampling steps reduced by up to 256 times.
In the new paper Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents, an OpenAI research team combines the advantages of contrastive and diffusion models for text-conditional image generation tasks. Their proposed unCLIP model improves image diversity with minimal loss in photorealism and caption similarity, and produces image quality comparable to the state-of-the-art text-to-image system GLIDE.
A Google Research team introduces Autoregressive Diffusion Models (ARDMs), a model class encompassing and generalizing order-agnostic autoregressive models and discrete diffusion models that can generate variables in an arbitrary order and upscale variables.