AiM: Scalable Autoregressive Image Generation with Mamba🐍

   

Scalable Autoregressive Image Generation with Mamba

💡 What is AiM

The first (as far as we know) Mamba 🐍 based autoregressive image generation model, offering competitive generation quality 💪 with diffusion models and faster inference speed ⚡️.

We also propose a more general form of adaLN, called adaLN-group, which balances parameter count and performance ⚖️. Notably, adaLN-group can be flexibly converted to adaLN and adaLN-single equivalently.

🔔 Update

• [2024-08-27] Improved HF integration, now supports from_pretrained for direct model loading.
• [2024-08-23] A minor bug in train_stage2.py has been fixed.
• [2024-08-23] Code and Model Release.

🚀 Getting Started

Train

accelerate launch --num_processes=32 --num_machines=... --main_process_ip=... --main_process_port=... --machine_rank=... train_stage2.py --aim-model AiM-XL --dataset /your/data/path/ --vq-ckpt /your/ckpt/path/vq_f16.pt --batch-size 64 --lr 8e-4 --epochs 350

Inference

You can play with AiM in the or:

from aim import AiM

model = AiM.from_pretrained("hp-l33/aim-xlarge").cuda()
model.eval()

imgs = model.generate(batch=8, temperature=1, top_p=0.98, top_k=600, cfg_scale=5)

The first time Mamba runs, it will invoke the triton compiler and autotune, so it may be slow. From the second run onwards, the inference speed will be very fast. See:

state-spaces/mamba#389 (comment)

🤗 Model Zoo

The model weights can be downloaded from the .

Model	params	FID	weight
AiM-B	148M	3.52	aim-base
AiM-L	350M	2.83	aim-large
AiM-XL	763M	2.56	aim-xlarge

🌹 Acknowledgments

This project would not have been possible without the computational resources provided by Professor Guoqi Li and his team. We would also like to thank the following repositories and papers for their inspiration:

• VQGAN
• Mamba
• LlamaGen
• VAR
• DiT

📖 BibTeX

@misc{li2024scalableautoregressiveimagegeneration,
      title={Scalable Autoregressive Image Generation with Mamba}, 
      author={Haopeng Li and Jinyue Yang and Kexin Wang and Xuerui Qiu and Yuhong Chou and Xin Li and Guoqi Li},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2408.12245},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12245}, 
}