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Diffusion-RWKV: Scaling RWKV-Like Architectures for Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
2 points by tosh on Apr 9, 2024 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: It adapts a language-model design that mixes information across a sequence cheaply into an image generator, handling high-resolution pictures as one stream of patches without window tricks. It matched or beat CNN and Transformer generators on standard quality scores while using far less computation.

Abstract

Transformers have catalyzed advancements in computer vision and natural language processing (NLP) fields. However, substantial computational complexity poses limitations for their application in long-context tasks, such as high-resolution image generation. This paper introduces a series of architectures adapted from the RWKV model used in the NLP, with requisite modifications tailored for diffusion model applied to image generation tasks, referred to as Diffusion-RWKV. Similar to the diffusion with Transformers, our model is designed to efficiently handle patchnified inputs in a sequence with extra conditions, while also scaling up effectively, accommodating both large-scale parameters and extensive datasets. Its distinctive advantage manifests in its reduced spatial aggregation complexity, rendering it exceptionally adept at processing high-resolution images, thereby eliminating the necessity for windowing or group cached operations. Experimental results on both condition and unconditional image generation tasks demonstrate that Diffison-RWKV achieves performance on par with or surpasses existing CNN or Transformer-based diffusion models in FID and IS metrics while significantly reducing total computation FLOP usage.

Zhengcong Fei, Mingyuan Fan, Changqian Yu, Debang Li, Junshi Huang
arXiv:2404.04478 · cs.CV · submitted Apr 6, 2024
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