DeepFloyd IF is a novel state-of-the-art open-source text-to-image model with a high degree of photorealism and language understanding.
The model is a modular composed of a frozen text encoder and three cascaded pixel diffusion modules:
- Stage 1: a base model that generates 64x64 px image based on text prompt,
- Stage 2: a 64x64 px => 256x256 px super-resolution model, and
- Stage 3: a 256x256 px => 1024x1024 px super-resolution model
Stage 1 and Stage 2 utilize a frozen text encoder based on the T5 transformer to extract text embeddings, which are then fed into a UNet architecture enhanced with cross-attention and attention pooling.
Stage 3 is [Stability AI's x4 Upscaling model](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-x4-upscaler).
The result is a highly efficient model that outperforms current state-of-the-art models, achieving a zero-shot FID score of 6.66 on the COCO dataset.
Our work underscores the potential of larger UNet architectures in the first stage of cascaded diffusion models and depicts a promising future for text-to-image synthesis.
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