Accurate Compression of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Vector Quantization
<|reference_start|>Accurate Compression of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Vector Quantization: Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for high-quality image generation given textual prompts. Their success has driven the rapid development of production-grade diffusion models that consistently increase in size and already contain billions of parameters. As a result, state-of-the-art text-to-image models are becoming less accessible in practice, especially in resource-limited environments. Post-training quantization (PTQ) tackles this issue by compressing the pretrained model weights into lower-bit representations. Recent diffusion quantization techniques primarily rely on uniform scalar quantization, providing decent performance for the models compressed to 4 bits. This work demonstrates that more versatile vector quantization (VQ) may achieve higher compression rates for large-scale text-to-image diffusion models. Specifically, we tailor vector-based PTQ methods to recent billion-scale text-to-image models (SDXL and SDXL-Turbo), and show that the diffusion models of 2B+ parameters compressed to around 3 bits using VQ exhibit the similar image quality and textual alignment as previous 4-bit compression techniques.<|reference_end|>
@article{egiazarian2024accurate,
    title={Accurate Compression of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Vector
  Quantization},
    author={Vage Egiazarian, Denis Kuznedelev, Anton Voronov, Ruslan Svirschevski,
  Michael Goin, Daniil Pavlov, Dan Alistarh, Dmitry Baranchuk},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00492},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.00492},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}