min-dalle
AI
text to image model
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
7 positive, 37 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 27 critical, out of 72 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.
Execution: 2 for, 20 againstIdea: 4 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Easier to install and run than the JAX version
From 2 comments
Look how much easier it is to install & run, people are interested in and up-voting the result, not how much work was (or wasn't) required to achieve it.
OJFord on HNLove this, before I only ever saw code that ran this model through jax. This seems to perform much better on my m1.
jwitthuhn on HN
Runs faster on Apple M1 than JAX code
From 1 comment
Love this, before I only ever saw code that ran this model through jax. This seems to perform much better on my m1.
jwitthuhn on HN
Objections
Setup errors with JAX, flax and msgpack versions
From 3 comments
I spun up an aws ubuntu ec2 with 2 Tesla M60. When I run python3 image_from_text.py --text='alien life' --seed=7 I get this error detokenizing image Traceback (most recent call…
dalle-world on HNRunning the "alien life" example from the README took 30 seconds on my M1 Max. I don't think it uses the GPU at all. I couldn't get the "mega" option to work, I got an error…
tomduncalf on HNChange the flax version to 0.4.2 (currently 0.5.2) will work So much for semver :(
NhanH on HN
Requires a Weights & Biases account to download models
From 2 comments
NB: Needs a weights & biases account in order to download the models.
pja on HNWhat is wandb.ai, and Why does it keep asking for an API key? It's not listed in the requirements I've posted it as an issue
mikewarot on HN
Image quality is poor for some prompts
From 2 comments
The results are amazingly poor. Try "biden plays chess against napoleon"
sAbakumoff on HNInteresting when testing with inputs like "Oscar Wilde photo" or "marilyn monroe photo" and comparing to a Google image search. After some iterations we can have quite similar…
JacobiX on HN
Slow inference on CPU, about 30 seconds or more
From 2 comments
Running the "alien life" example from the README took 30 seconds on my M1 Max. I don't think it uses the GPU at all. I couldn't get the "mega" option to work, I got an error…
tomduncalf on HNThe thread now has a fix. As for the GPU, it's possible to get it working with some extra steps https://github.com/google/jax/issues/8074 Macbook Pro M1 Pro numbers (CPU): ```…
klohto on HN
Requests
Hardware and RAM requirements and inference stats
From 2 comments
Anyone have some stats on inference time and RAM requirements? (on specific hardware)
etaioinshrdlu on HNGood Job. What are the hardware requirements?
WheelsAtLarge on HN
Docker container support
From 1 comment
Now we just need to containarise it (there are a few docker python nvidia images)
lastdong on HN
GPU support on Apple silicon
From 1 comment
From reading that thread it didn't sound like GPU was fully supported yet, were you able to get it working?
tomduncalf on HN
Questions
What is Weights & Biases and why is an API key needed
From 2 comments
What is wandb.ai, and Why does it keep asking for an API key? It's not listed in the requirements I've posted it as an issue
mikewarot on HNWTF is Wandb.ai? This seems like a sneaky way to get people to sign up for this wandb thingy.
mahastore on HN
What is the license of generated images
From 1 comment
What is the license of the generated artwork?
JanSt on HN
Alternatives named
Visions of Chaos for running text-to-image models locally on Windows
From 1 comment
If people just want to run text to image models locally by far the easiest way I've found on Windows is to install Visions of Chaos. It was originally a fractal image generation…
andybak on HN
dalle-playground
From 1 comment
People might also like this one: https://github.com/saharmor/dalle-playground Really easy to work with
amar-laksh on HN