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Scaling Autoregressive Models for Content-Rich Text-to-Image Generation

Authors :
Yu, Jiahui
Xu, Yuanzhong
Koh, Jing Yu
Luong, Thang
Baid, Gunjan
Wang, Zirui
Vasudevan, Vijay
Ku, Alexander
Yang, Yinfei
Ayan, Burcu Karagol
Hutchinson, Ben
Han, Wei
Parekh, Zarana
Li, Xin
Zhang, Han
Baldridge, Jason
Wu, Yonghui
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

We present the Pathways Autoregressive Text-to-Image (Parti) model, which generates high-fidelity photorealistic images and supports content-rich synthesis involving complex compositions and world knowledge. Parti treats text-to-image generation as a sequence-to-sequence modeling problem, akin to machine translation, with sequences of image tokens as the target outputs rather than text tokens in another language. This strategy can naturally tap into the rich body of prior work on large language models, which have seen continued advances in capabilities and performance through scaling data and model sizes. Our approach is simple: First, Parti uses a Transformer-based image tokenizer, ViT-VQGAN, to encode images as sequences of discrete tokens. Second, we achieve consistent quality improvements by scaling the encoder-decoder Transformer model up to 20B parameters, with a new state-of-the-art zero-shot FID score of 7.23 and finetuned FID score of 3.22 on MS-COCO. Our detailed analysis on Localized Narratives as well as PartiPrompts (P2), a new holistic benchmark of over 1600 English prompts, demonstrate the effectiveness of Parti across a wide variety of categories and difficulty aspects. We also explore and highlight limitations of our models in order to define and exemplify key areas of focus for further improvements. See https://parti.research.google/ for high-resolution images.<br />Comment: Preprint

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2206.10789
Document Type :
Working Paper