Score-based diffusion models have captured widespread attention and funded fast progress of recent vision generative tasks. In this paper, we focus on diffusion model backbone which has been much neglected before. We systematically explore vision Transformers as diffusion learners for various generative tasks. With our improvements the performance of vanilla ViT-based backbone (IU-ViT) is boosted to be on par with traditional U-Net-based methods. We further provide a hypothesis on the implication of disentangling the generative backbone as an encoder-decoder structure and show proof-of-concept experiments verifying the effectiveness of a stronger encoder for generative tasks with ASymmetriC ENcoder Decoder (ASCEND). Our improvements achieve competitive results on CIFAR-10, CelebA, LSUN, CUB Bird and large-resolution text-to-image tasks. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to successfully train a single diffusion model on text-to-image task beyond 64x64 resolution. We hope this will motivate people to rethink the modeling choices and the training pipelines for diffusion-based generative models.

We explore a new class of diffusion models based on the transformer architecture. We train latent diffusion models of images, replacing the commonly-used U-Net backbone with a transformer that operates on latent patches. We analyze the scalability of our Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) through the lens of forward pass complexity as measured by Gflops. We find that DiTs with higher Gflops -- through increased transformer depth/width or increased number of input tokens -- consistently have lower FID. In addition to possessing good scalability properties, our largest DiT-XL/2 models outperform all prior diffusion models on the class-conditional ImageNet 512x512 and 256x256 benchmarks, achieving a state-of-the-art FID of 2.27 on the latter.

利用深度学习的最新进展，文本到图像生成模型目前具有吸引公众关注的优点。其中两个模型Dall-E 2和Imagen已经证明，可以从图像的简单文本描述中生成高度逼真的图像。基于一种称为扩散模型的新型图像生成方法，文本对图像模型可以生产许多不同类型的高分辨率图像，其中人类想象力是唯一的极限。但是，这些模型需要大量的计算资源来训练，并处理从互联网收集的大量数据集。此外，代码库和模型均未发布。因此，它可以防止AI社区尝试这些尖端模型，从而使其结果复制变得复杂，即使不是不可能。在本文中，我们的目标是首先回顾这些模型使用的不同方法和技术，然后提出我们自己的文本模型模型实施。高度基于DALL-E 2，我们引入了一些轻微的修改，以应对所引起的高计算成本。因此，我们有机会进行实验，以了解这些模型的能力，尤其是在低资源制度中。特别是，我们提供了比Dall-e 2的作者（包括消融研究）更深入的分析。此外，扩散模型使用所谓的指导方法来帮助生成过程。我们引入了一种新的指导方法，该方法可以与其他指导方法一起使用，以提高图像质量。最后，我们的模型产生的图像质量相当好，而不必维持最先进的文本对图像模型的重大培训成本。

Large-scale diffusion-based generative models have led to breakthroughs in text-conditioned high-resolution image synthesis. Starting from random noise, such text-to-image diffusion models gradually synthesize images in an iterative fashion while conditioning on text prompts. We find that their synthesis behavior qualitatively changes throughout this process: Early in sampling, generation strongly relies on the text prompt to generate text-aligned content, while later, the text conditioning is almost entirely ignored. This suggests that sharing model parameters throughout the entire generation process may not be ideal. Therefore, in contrast to existing works, we propose to train an ensemble of text-to-image diffusion models specialized for different synthesis stages. To maintain training efficiency, we initially train a single model, which is then split into specialized models that are trained for the specific stages of the iterative generation process. Our ensemble of diffusion models, called eDiff-I, results in improved text alignment while maintaining the same inference computation cost and preserving high visual quality, outperforming previous large-scale text-to-image diffusion models on the standard benchmark. In addition, we train our model to exploit a variety of embeddings for conditioning, including the T5 text, CLIP text, and CLIP image embeddings. We show that these different embeddings lead to different behaviors. Notably, the CLIP image embedding allows an intuitive way of transferring the style of a reference image to the target text-to-image output. Lastly, we show a technique that enables eDiff-I's "paint-with-words" capability. A user can select the word in the input text and paint it in a canvas to control the output, which is very handy for crafting the desired image in mind. The project page is available at https://deepimagination.cc/eDiff-I/

随着信息中的各种方式存在于现实世界中的各种方式，多式联信息之间的有效互动和融合在计算机视觉和深度学习研究中的多模式数据的创造和感知中起着关键作用。通过卓越的功率，在多式联运信息中建模互动，多式联运图像合成和编辑近年来已成为一个热门研究主题。与传统的视觉指导不同，提供明确的线索，多式联路指南在图像合成和编辑方面提供直观和灵活的手段。另一方面，该领域也面临着具有固有的模态差距的特征的几个挑战，高分辨率图像的合成，忠实的评估度量等。在本调查中，我们全面地阐述了最近多式联运图像综合的进展根据数据模型和模型架构编辑和制定分类。我们从图像合成和编辑中的不同类型的引导方式开始介绍。然后，我们描述了多模式图像综合和编辑方法，其具有详细的框架，包括生成的对抗网络（GAN），GaN反转，变压器和其他方法，例如NERF和扩散模型。其次是在多模式图像合成和编辑中广泛采用的基准数据集和相应的评估度量的综合描述，以及分析各个优点和限制的不同合成方法的详细比较。最后，我们为目前的研究挑战和未来的研究方向提供了深入了解。与本调查相关的项目可在HTTPS://github.com/fnzhan/mise上获得

We present an end-to-end Transformer based Latent Diffusion model for image synthesis. On the ImageNet class conditioned generation task we show that a Transformer based Latent Diffusion model achieves a 14.1FID which is comparable to the 13.1FID score of a UNet based architecture. In addition to showing the application of Transformer models for Diffusion based image synthesis this simplification in architecture allows easy fusion and modeling of text and image data. The multi-head attention mechanism of Transformers enables simplified interaction between the image and text features which removes the requirement for crossattention mechanism in UNet based Diffusion models.

DeNoising扩散模型代表了计算机视觉中最新的主题，在生成建模领域表现出了显着的结果。扩散模型是一个基于两个阶段的深层生成模型，一个正向扩散阶段和反向扩散阶段。在正向扩散阶段，通过添加高斯噪声，输入数据在几个步骤中逐渐受到干扰。在反向阶段，模型的任务是通过学习逐步逆转扩散过程来恢复原始输入数据。尽管已知的计算负担，即由于采样过程中涉及的步骤数量，扩散模型对生成样品的质量和多样性得到了广泛赞赏。在这项调查中，我们对视觉中应用的denoising扩散模型的文章进行了全面综述，包括该领域的理论和实际贡献。首先，我们识别并介绍了三个通用扩散建模框架，这些框架基于扩散概率模型，噪声调节得分网络和随机微分方程。我们进一步讨论了扩散模型与其他深层生成模型之间的关系，包括变异自动编码器，生成对抗网络，基于能量的模型，自回归模型和正常流量。然后，我们介绍了计算机视觉中应用的扩散模型的多角度分类。最后，我们说明了扩散模型的当前局限性，并设想了一些有趣的未来研究方向。

通过将图像形成过程分解成逐个申请的去噪自身额，扩散模型（DMS）实现了最先进的合成导致图像数据和超越。另外，它们的配方允许引导机构来控制图像生成过程而不会再刷新。然而，由于这些模型通常在像素空间中直接操作，因此强大的DMS的优化通常消耗数百个GPU天，并且由于顺序评估，推理是昂贵的。为了在保留其质量和灵活性的同时启用有限计算资源的DM培训，我们将它们应用于强大的佩带自动化器的潜在空间。与以前的工作相比，这种代表上的培训扩散模型允许第一次达到复杂性降低和细节保存之间的近乎最佳点，极大地提高了视觉保真度。通过将跨关注层引入模型架构中，我们将扩散模型转化为强大而柔性的发电机，以进行诸如文本或边界盒和高分辨率合成的通用调节输入，以卷积方式变得可以实现。我们的潜在扩散模型（LDMS）实现了一种新的技术状态，可在各种任务中进行图像修复和高竞争性能，包括无条件图像生成，语义场景合成和超级分辨率，同时与基于像素的DMS相比显着降低计算要求。代码可在https://github.com/compvis/lattent-diffusion获得。

我们介绍了文本到图像生成的矢量量化扩散（VQ-扩散）模型。该方法基于矢量量化变分性AutoEncoder（VQ-VAE），其潜像通过最近开发的去噪扩散概率（DDPM）的条件变体为基础。我们发现这种潜在空间方法非常适合于图像到图像生成任务，因为它不仅消除了具有现有方法的单向偏差，还允许我们结合掩模和更换的扩散策略，以避免积累错误，这是现有方法的严重问题。我们的实验表明，与具有类似数量的参数数量的传统自回归（AR）模型相比，VQ扩散产生明显更好的文本到图像生成结果。与以前的基于GAN的文本到图像方法相比，我们的VQ扩散可以通过大边缘处理更复杂的场景并提高合成的图像质量。最后，我们表明我们的方法中的图像生成计算可以通过Reparameter化进行高效。利用传统的AR方法，文本到图像生成时间随输出图像分辨率线性增加，因此即使对于正常尺寸图像也是相当耗时的。 VQ-扩散使我们能够在质量和速度之间实现更好的权衡。我们的实验表明，具有Reparameterization的VQ扩散模型比传统的AR方法快15倍，同时实现更好的图像质量。

扩散模型（DMS）显示出高质量图像合成的巨大潜力。但是，当涉及到具有复杂场景的图像时，如何正确描述图像全局结构和对象细节仍然是一项具有挑战性的任务。在本文中，我们提出了弗里多（Frido），这是一种特征金字塔扩散模型，该模型执行了图像合成的多尺度粗到1个降解过程。我们的模型将输入图像分解为依赖比例的矢量量化特征，然后是用于产生图像输出的粗到细门。在上述多尺度表示阶段，可以进一步利用文本，场景图或图像布局等其他输入条件。因此，还可以将弗里多应用于条件或跨模式图像合成。我们对各种无条件和有条件的图像生成任务进行了广泛的实验，从文本到图像综合，布局到图像，场景环形图像到标签形象。更具体地说，我们在五个基准测试中获得了最先进的FID分数，即可可和开阔图像的布局到图像，可可和视觉基因组的场景环形图像以及可可的标签对图像图像。 。代码可在https://github.com/davidhalladay/frido上找到。

We show that diffusion models can achieve image sample quality superior to the current state-of-the-art generative models. We achieve this on unconditional image synthesis by finding a better architecture through a series of ablations. For conditional image synthesis, we further improve sample quality with classifier guidance: a simple, compute-efficient method for trading off diversity for fidelity using gradients from a classifier. We achieve an FID of 2.97 on ImageNet 128×128, 4.59 on ImageNet 256×256, and 7.72 on ImageNet 512×512, and we match BigGAN-deep even with as few as 25 forward passes per sample, all while maintaining better coverage of the distribution. Finally, we find that classifier guidance combines well with upsampling diffusion models, further improving FID to 3.94 on ImageNet 256×256 and 3.85 on ImageNet 512×512. We release our code at https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion.

Astounding results from Transformer models on natural language tasks have intrigued the vision community to study their application to computer vision problems. Among their salient benefits, Transformers enable modeling long dependencies between input sequence elements and support parallel processing of sequence as compared to recurrent networks e.g., Long short-term memory (LSTM). Different from convolutional networks, Transformers require minimal inductive biases for their design and are naturally suited as set-functions. Furthermore, the straightforward design of Transformers allows processing multiple modalities (e.g., images, videos, text and speech) using similar processing blocks and demonstrates excellent scalability to very large capacity networks and huge datasets. These strengths have led to exciting progress on a number of vision tasks using Transformer networks. This survey aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the Transformer models in the computer vision discipline. We start with an introduction to fundamental concepts behind the success of Transformers i.e., self-attention, large-scale pre-training, and bidirectional feature encoding. We then cover extensive applications of transformers in vision including popular recognition tasks (e.g., image classification, object detection, action recognition, and segmentation), generative modeling, multi-modal tasks (e.g., visual-question answering, visual reasoning, and visual grounding), video processing (e.g., activity recognition, video forecasting), low-level vision (e.g., image super-resolution, image enhancement, and colorization) and 3D analysis (e.g., point cloud classification and segmentation). We compare the respective advantages and limitations of popular techniques both in terms of architectural design and their experimental value. Finally, we provide an analysis on open research directions and possible future works. We hope this effort will ignite further interest in the community to solve current challenges towards the application of transformer models in computer vision.

We present Muse, a text-to-image Transformer model that achieves state-of-the-art image generation performance while being significantly more efficient than diffusion or autoregressive models. Muse is trained on a masked modeling task in discrete token space: given the text embedding extracted from a pre-trained large language model (LLM), Muse is trained to predict randomly masked image tokens. Compared to pixel-space diffusion models, such as Imagen and DALL-E 2, Muse is significantly more efficient due to the use of discrete tokens and requiring fewer sampling iterations; compared to autoregressive models, such as Parti, Muse is more efficient due to the use of parallel decoding. The use of a pre-trained LLM enables fine-grained language understanding, translating to high-fidelity image generation and the understanding of visual concepts such as objects, their spatial relationships, pose, cardinality etc. Our 900M parameter model achieves a new SOTA on CC3M, with an FID score of 6.06. The Muse 3B parameter model achieves an FID of 7.88 on zero-shot COCO evaluation, along with a CLIP score of 0.32. Muse also directly enables a number of image editing applications without the need to fine-tune or invert the model: inpainting, outpainting, and mask-free editing. More results are available at https://muse-model.github.io

数字艺术合成在多媒体社区中受到越来越多的关注，因为有效地与公众参与了艺术。当前的数字艺术合成方法通常使用单模式输入作为指导，从而限制了模型的表现力和生成结果的多样性。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了多模式引导的艺术品扩散（MGAD）模型，该模型是一种基于扩散的数字艺术品生成方法，它利用多模式提示作为控制无分类器扩散模型的指导。此外，对比度语言图像预处理（剪辑）模型用于统一文本和图像模式。关于生成的数字艺术绘画质量和数量的广泛实验结果证实了扩散模型和多模式指导的组合有效性。代码可从https://github.com/haha-lisa/mgad-multimodal-guided-artwork-diffusion获得。

The recently developed discrete diffusion models perform extraordinarily well in the text-to-image task, showing significant promise for handling the multi-modality signals. In this work, we harness these traits and present a unified multimodal generation model that can conduct both the "modality translation" and "multi-modality generation" tasks using a single model, performing text-based, image-based, and even vision-language simultaneous generation. Specifically, we unify the discrete diffusion process for multimodal signals by proposing a unified transition matrix. Moreover, we design a mutual attention module with fused embedding layer and a unified objective function to emphasise the inter-modal linkages, which are vital for multi-modality generation. Extensive experiments indicate that our proposed method can perform comparably to the state-of-the-art solutions in various generation tasks.

We introduce M-VADER: a diffusion model (DM) for image generation where the output can be specified using arbitrary combinations of images and text. We show how M-VADER enables the generation of images specified using combinations of image and text, and combinations of multiple images. Previously, a number of successful DM image generation algorithms have been introduced that make it possible to specify the output image using a text prompt. Inspired by the success of those models, and led by the notion that language was already developed to describe the elements of visual contexts that humans find most important, we introduce an embedding model closely related to a vision-language model. Specifically, we introduce the embedding model S-MAGMA: a 13 billion parameter multimodal decoder combining components from an autoregressive vision-language model MAGMA and biases finetuned for semantic search.

变压器是一种基于关注的编码器解码器架构，彻底改变了自然语言处理领域。灵感来自这一重大成就，最近在将变形式架构调整到计算机视觉（CV）领域的一些开创性作品，这已经证明了他们对各种简历任务的有效性。依靠竞争力的建模能力，与现代卷积神经网络相比在本文中，我们已经为三百不同的视觉变压器进行了全面的审查，用于三个基本的CV任务（分类，检测和分割），提出了根据其动机，结构和使用情况组织这些方法的分类。 。由于培训设置和面向任务的差异，我们还在不同的配置上进行了评估了这些方法，以便于易于和直观的比较而不是各种基准。此外，我们已经揭示了一系列必不可少的，但可能使变压器能够从众多架构中脱颖而出，例如松弛的高级语义嵌入，以弥合视觉和顺序变压器之间的差距。最后，提出了三个未来的未来研究方向进行进一步投资。

扩散模型是一类强大的生成模型类别，可以迭代地贬低样品生成数据。尽管许多作品都集中在此抽样过程中的迭代次数上，但很少有人专注于每次迭代的成本。我们发现，添加简单的VIT风格的修补转换可以大大减少扩散模型的采样时间和内存使用情况。我们通过对扩散模型目标的分析以及在LSUN教堂，Imagenet 256和FFHQ1024上进行的经验实验来证明我们的方法是合理的。我们在Tensorflow和Pytorch中提供了实现。

视觉变压器（VIT）在包括低水平的视觉任务中显示了有望，而U-NET在基于分数的扩散模型中仍然占主导地位。在本文中，我们对扩散模型中的基于VIT的体系结构进行了系统的经验研究。我们的结果表明，在VIT中添加超长的跳过连接（例如U-NET）对于扩散模型至关重要。新的VIT体系结构以及其他改进被称为U-Vit。在几个流行的视觉数据集中，U-Vit可以将竞争性生成结果达到SOTA U-NET，同时需要大量的参数和计算，如果不是更少。

生成时间连贯的高保真视频是生成建模研究中的重要里程碑。我们通过提出一个视频生成的扩散模型来取得这一里程碑的进步，该模型显示出非常有希望的初始结果。我们的模型是标准图像扩散体系结构的自然扩展，它可以从图像和视频数据中共同训练，我们发现这可以减少Minibatch梯度的方差并加快优化。为了生成长而更高的分辨率视频，我们引入了一种新的条件抽样技术，用于空间和时间视频扩展，该技术的性能比以前提出的方法更好。我们介绍了大型文本条件的视频生成任务，以及最新的结果，以实现视频预测和无条件视频生成的确定基准。可从https://video-diffusion.github.io/获得补充材料