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license: mit
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Show-o Turbo: Towards Accelerated Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
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## News
* **[2024-11-29]** We release a [256-resolution version of the weights](https://huggingface.co/SJTU-Deng-Lab/Show-o-Turbo-256) for Show-o Turbo on Hugging Face.
## What's New about Show-o Turbo?
Show-o Turbo builds upon Show-o to address its inefficiency issues in both image and text generation. While Show-o relies on progressive denoising for images and autoregressive decoding for text, Show-o Turbo introduces a unified denoising perspective for both modalities, leading to significantly faster generation speeds. Show-o Turbo achieves this through several key innovations:
* **Unified Denoising:** Show-o Turbo utilizes parallel text decoding techniques (Jacobi decoding) to reframe text generation as a denoising process, analogous to image generation. This enables a unified view of both modalities as denoising trajectories.
* **Consistency Distillation:** Show-o Turbo employs consistency distillation, a technique inspired by diffusion model acceleration, to shorten these multimodal denoising trajectories. This allows the model to generate meaningful content faster.
* **Trajectory Segmentation and Curriculum Learning:** To enhance convergence, Show-o Turbo uses a staged training approach with decreasing trajectory segments and curriculum learning.
* **Top-k Sampling:** Show-o Turbo utilizes top-k sampling during inference to improve sample quality, especially with fewer sampling steps.
## Results
Show-o Turbo shows significant speedups in both text-to-image and image-to-text generation, while maintaining comparable performance to Show-o.
* In text-to-image generation, it achieves performance close to that of Show-o at 8-step sampling at 4-step sampling, and surpasses Show-o at 4-step sampling at 2-step sampling.
* In multimodal understanding tasks, it is about 1.5 times faster without much performance loss.
## Getting Started
First, set up the environment:
```bash
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
```
### Inference
**Multimodal Understanding:**
```bash
python3 inference_mmu.py config=configs/showo_turbo_mmu.yaml
```
This will run the multimodal understanding inference with the default settings from `configs/showo_turbo_mmu.yaml`. You can modify this config file to customize the input and other parameters.
**Text-to-Image Generation:**
```bash
python3 inference_t2i.py config=configs/showo_turbo_t2i.yaml
```
This will run text-to-image generation with default settings. Similar to MMU, you can adjust parameters in the config file.
## Training pipeline
**(Coming Soon)** Details about the training process, including data preparation, scripts, and configuration options will be provided here upon release. Example command:
```bash
accelerate launch --config_file path/to/your/accelerate_config --main_process_port=8888 training/train_showo_turbo.py config=configs/showo_turbo_training.yaml
```
## TODO
- [X] Release the inference and training code.
- [X] Release the model weights.
- [ ] Conduct further experiments with larger model sizes and datasets.
## Contributing
We welcome contributions to Show-o Turbo! If you have ideas for new features or improvements, please open an issue or submit a pull request.
## Citation
**(Coming Soon)** Citation information will be provided here upon publication.
## Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the authors of Show-o and the developers of the libraries and frameworks upon which Show-o Turbo is built, including open-muse, Phi-1.5, maskgit, taming-transformers, transformers, accelerate, diffusers. Thanks to all the authors for their great work.