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license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: text-to-image
Transition Models: Rethinking the Generative Learning Objective
This repository contains the Transition Models (TiM) presented in the paper Transition Models: Rethinking the Generative Learning Objective.
TiM is a novel generative model designed for flexible photorealistic text-to-image generation. It achieves state-of-the-art performance with high efficiency by learning arbitrary state-to-state transitions, unifying few-step and many-step generation within a single model.
Highlights
- Our Transition Models (TiM) are trained to master arbitrary state-to-state transitions. This approach allows TiM to learn the entire solution manifold of the generative process, unifying the few-step and many-step regimes within a single, powerful model.
- Despite having only 865M parameters, TiM achieves state-to-art performance, surpassing leading models such as SD3.5 (8B parameters) and FLUX.1 (12B parameters) across all evaluated step counts on GenEval benchmark. Importantly, unlike previous few-step generators, TiM demonstrates monotonic quality improvement as the sampling budget increases.
- Additionally, when employing our native-resolution strategy, TiM delivers exceptional fidelity at resolutions up to
4096x4096.
Quickstart
1. Setup
First, clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/WZDTHU/TiM.git && cd TiM
1.1 Environment Setup
conda create -n tim_env python=3.10
pip install torch==2.5.1 torchvision==0.20.1 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
pip install flash-attn
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
1.2 Model Download
Download the Text-to-Image model:
mkdir checkpoints
wget -c "https://huggingface.co/GoodEnough/TiM-T2I/resolve/main/t2i_model.bin" -O checkpoints/t2i_model.bin
2. Sampling (Text-to-Image Generation)
We provide the sampling scripts on three benchmarks. You can specify the sampling steps, resolutions, and CFG scale in the corresponding scripts.
Sampling with TiM-T2I model on GenEval benchmark:
bash scripts/sample/t2i/sample_t2i_geneval.sh