AltDiffusion

by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

About the model:

Early multilingual text-to-image model.

Model type:

Image

Model performance class:

Limited

Link to the model:

https://huggingface.co/BAAI/AltDiffusion

Base models:

Stable-Diffusion-2-Base

End model:

AltDiffusion

End model license:

CreativeML Open RAIL-M

About the organisation:

Chinese non-profit AI lab.

Link to the organisation:

https://www.baai.ac.cn/en/

Model release date:

December 2022

Availability

Base Model Data

Trained on a subset of LAION-5B, an openly available dataset.

https://laion.ai/blog/laion-5b/

End User Model Data

Fine-tuned on LAION and WuDao. Both ostensibly publicly available.

https://laion.ai/blog/laion-5b/https://data.baai.ac.cn/details/WuDaoCorporaText

Base Model Weights

Weights available through HuggingFace.

https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-base

End User Model Weights

Weights available through HuggingFace.

https://huggingface.co/BAAI/AltDiffusion

Training Code

GitHub available containing training code.

https://github.com/superhero-7/AltDiffusion

Documentation

Code Documentation

Code sparsely documented in Chinese.

https://github.com/superhero-7/AltDiffusion/

Hardware Architecture

Hardware architecture outlined in preprint.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.09991

Preprint

Preprint available through arXiv.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.09991

Paper

Paper published in AAAI.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1609/aaai.v38i7.28487

Modelcard

Model card primarily contains information about inference, examples, and licensing information.

https://huggingface.co/BAAI/AltDiffusion

Datasheet

Data collection procedures for LAION are outlined in a corresponding paper. The WuDao dataset is only sparsely documented, primarily in Chinese.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.08402 https://github.com/BAAI-WuDao/Data

Access

Licenses

CreativeML Open RAIL-M License. Not an OSI-approved license.

https://huggingface.co/BAAI/AltDiffusion#%E8%AE%B8%E5%8F%AFlicense

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