Welcome aMUSEd: Efficient Text-to-Image Generation
We’re excited to present an efficient non-diffusion text-to-image model named aMUSEd. It’s called so because it’s a open reproduction of Google’s MUSE. aMUSEd’s generation quality is not the best and we’re releasing a research preview with a permissive license.
In contrast to the commonly used latent diffusion approach (Rombach et al. (2022)), aMUSEd employs a Masked Image Model (MIM) methodology. This not only requires fewer inference steps, as noted by Chang et al. (2023), but also enhances the model’s interpretability.
Just as MUSE, aMUSEd demonstrates an exceptional