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CogView2: Faster and Better Text-to-Image Generation via Hierarchical Transformers
Ming Ding · Wendi Zheng · Wenyi Hong · Jie Tang

Thu Dec 01 09:00 AM -- 11:00 AM (PST) @ Hall J #925

Development of transformer-based text-to-image models is impeded by its slow generation and complexity, for high-resolution images. In this work, we put forward a solution based on hierarchical transformers and local parallel autoregressive generation. We pretrain a 6B-parameter transformer with a simple and flexible self-supervised task, a cross-modal general language model (CogLM), and fine-tune it for fast super-resolution. The new text-to-image system, CogView2, shows very competitive generation compared to concurrent state-of-the-art DALL-E-2, and naturally supports interactive text-guided editing on images.

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Ming Ding (Tsinghua University)
Wendi Zheng (Tsinghua University)
Wenyi Hong (Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University)
Jie Tang (Tsinghua University)

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