The [Wuerstchen](https://hf.co/papers/2306.00637) model drastically reduces computational costs by compressing the latent space by 42x, without compromising image quality and accelerating inference. During training, Wuerstchen uses two models (VQGAN + autoencoder) to compress the latents, and then a third model (text-conditioned latent diffusion model) is conditioned on this highly compressed space to generate an image.