In plain words: A new text-to-image generator is trained to match what people like, while testing how model size and the number of training pictures change speed and image quality. Training on fewer but better pictures matched bigger collections, and people picked its images over many top rivals.
Abstract · YaART: Yet Another ART Rendering Technology
In the rapidly progressing field of generative models, the development of efficient and high-fidelity text-to-image diffusion systems represents a significant frontier. This study introduces YaART, a novel production-grade text-to-image cascaded diffusion model aligned to human preferences using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). During the development of YaART, we especially focus on the choices of the model and training dataset sizes, the aspects that were not systematically investigated for text-to-image cascaded diffusion models before. In particular, we comprehensively analyze how these choices affect both the efficiency of the training process and the quality of the generated images, which are highly important in practice. Furthermore, we demonstrate that models trained on smaller datasets of higher-quality images can successfully compete with those trained on larger datasets, establishing a more efficient scenario of diffusion models training. From the quality perspective, YaART is consistently preferred by users over many existing state-of-the-art models.
Sergey Kastryulin, Artem Konev, Alexander Shishenya, Eugene Lyapustin, Artem Khurshudov, Alexander Tselousov, Nikita Vinokurov, Denis Kuznedelev, Alexander Markovich, Grigoriy Livshits, Alexey Kirillov, Anastasiia Tabisheva, et al.
arXiv:2404.05666 · cs.CV · submitted Apr 8, 2024
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