Model reference · open weights
bk-sdm-tiny is an open-weight image model from nota-ai. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.
Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.
What it is
| Released by | nota-ai |
|---|---|
| Type | Image models |
| Task | Text→image |
| Parameters (lead) | 323M |
| Runs with | diffusers |
| Released | 2023-07-12 |
| Popularity | 1k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
Block-removed Knowledge-distilled Stable Diffusion Model (BK-SDM) is an architecturally compressed SDM for efficient general-purpose text-to-image synthesis. This model is bulit with (i) removing several residual and attention blocks from the U-Net of Stable Diffusion v1.4 and (ii) distillation pretraining on only 0.22M LAION pairs (fewer than 0.1% of the full training set). Despite being trained with very limited resources, our compact model can imitate the original SDM by benefiting from transferred knowledge.
An inference code with the default PNDM scheduler and 50 denoising steps is as follows.
import torch
from diffusers import StableDiffusionPipeline
pipe = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("nota-ai/bk-sdm-tiny", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe = pipe.to("cuda")
prompt = "a tropical bird sitting on a branch of a tree"
image = pipe(prompt).images[0]
image.save("example.png")
The following code is also runnable, because we compressed the U-Net of Stable Diffusion v1.4 while keeping the other parts (i.e., Text Encoder and Image Decoder) unchanged:
import torch
from diffusers import StableDiffusionPipeline, UNet2DConditionModel
pipe = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe.unet = UNet2DConditionModel.from_pretrained("nota-ai/bk-sdm-tiny", subfolder="unet", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe = pipe.to("cuda")
prompt = "a tropical bird sitting on a branch of a tree"
image = pipe(prompt).images[0]
image.save("example.png")
Certain residual and attention blocks were eliminated from the U-Net of SDM-v1.4:
The compact U-Net was trained to mimic the behavior of the original U-Net. We leveraged feature-level and output-level distillation, along with the denoising task loss.
The following table shows the zero-shot results on 30K samples from the MS-COCO validation split. After generating 512×512 images with the PNDM scheduler and 25 denoising steps, we downsampled them to 256×256 for evaluating generation scores. Our models were drawn at the 50K-th training iteration.
| Model | FID↓ | IS↑ | CLIP Score↑(ViT-g/14) | # Params,U-Net | # Params,Whole SDM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stable Diffusion v1.4 | 13.05 | 36.76 | 0.2958 | 0.86B | 1.04B |
| BK-SDM-Base (Ours) | 15.76 | 33.79 | 0.2878 | 0.58B | 0.76B |
| BK-SDM-Small (Ours) | 16.98 | 31.68 | 0.2677 | 0.49B | 0.66B |
| BK-SDM-Tiny (Ours) | 17.12 | 30.09 | 0.2653 | 0.33B | 0.50B |
The following figure depicts synthesized images with some MS-COCO captions.
Note: This section is taken from the Stable Diffusion v1 model card (which was based on the DALLE-MINI model card) and applies in the same way to BK-SDMs.
The model is intended for research purposes only. Possible research areas and tasks include
Excluded uses are described below.
The model should not be used to intentionally create or disseminate images that create hostile or alienating environments for people. This includes generating images that people would foreseeably find disturbing, distressing, or offensive; or content that propagates historical or current stereotypes.
The model was not trained to be factual or true representations of people or events, and therefore using the model to generate such content is out-of-scope for the abilities of this model.
Using the model to generate content that is cruel to individuals is a misuse of this model. This includes, but is not limited to:
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys bk-sdm-tiny for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (bk-sdm-tiny below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/images/generations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"bk-sdm-tiny","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'
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