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Lumina-Next-T2I

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Lumina-Next-T2I is an open-weight image model from Alpha-VLLM. 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

MakerAlpha-VLLM
TypeImage models
TaskText→image
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-05-04
Popularity15 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What Lumina-Next-T2I is

The Lumina-Next-T2I model uses Next-DiT with a 2B parameters model as well as using Gemma-2B as a text encoder. Compared with Lumina-T2I, it has faster inference speed, richer generation style, and more multilingual support, etc.

Our generative model has Next-DiT as the backbone, the text encoder is the Gemma 2B model, and the VAE uses a version of sdxl fine-tuned by stabilityai.

paper

📰 News

  • [2024-5-28] 🚀🚀🚀 We updated the Lumina-Next-T2I model to support 2K Resolution image generation.

  • [2024-5-16] ❗❗❗ We have converted the .pth weights to .safetensors weights. Please pull the latest code to use demo.py for inference.

  • [2024-5-12] 🚀🚀🚀 We release the next version of Lumina-T2I, called Lumina-Next-T2I for faster and lower memory usage image generation model.

🎮 Model Zoo

More checkpoints of our model will be released soon~

ResolutionNext-DiT ParameterText EncoderPredictionDownload URL
10242BGemma-2BRectified Flowhugging face

Installation

Before installation, ensure that you have a working nvcc

# The command should work and show the same version number as in our case. (12.1 in our case).
nvcc --version

On some outdated distros (e.g., CentOS 7), you may also want to check that a late enough version of gcc is available

# The command should work and show a version of at least 6.0.
# If not, consult distro-specific tutorials to obtain a newer version or build manually.
gcc --version

Downloading Lumina-T2X repo from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/Alpha-VLLM/Lumina-T2X

1. Create a conda environment and install PyTorch

Note: You may want to adjust the CUDA version according to your driver version.

conda create -n Lumina_T2X -y
conda activate Lumina_T2X
conda install python=3.11 pytorch==2.1.0 torchvision==0.16.0 torchaudio==2.1.0 pytorch-cuda=12.1 -c pytorch -c nvidia -y

2. Install dependencies

pip install diffusers fairscale accelerate tensorboard transformers gradio torchdiffeq click

or you can use

cd lumina_next_t2i
pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Install flash-attn

pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation

4. Install nvidia apex (optional)

[!Warning] While Apex can improve efficiency, it is not a must to make Lumina-T2X work.

Note that Lumina-T2X works smoothly with either:

  • Apex not installed at all; OR
  • Apex successfully installed with CUDA and C++ extensions.

However, it will fail when:

  • A Python-only build of Apex is installed.

If the error No module named 'fused_layer_norm_cuda' appears, it typically means you are using a Python-only build of Apex. To resolve this, please run pip uninstall apex, and Lumina-T2X should then function correctly.

You can clone the repo and install following the official guidelines (note that we expect a full build, i.e., with CUDA and C++ extensions)

pip install ninja
git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex
cd apex
# if pip >= 23.1 (ref: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/#v23-1) which supports multiple `--config-settings` with the same key...
pip install -v --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir --no-build-isolation --config-settings "--build-option=--cpp_ext" --config-settings "--build-option=--cuda_ext" ./
# otherwise
pip install -v --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir --no-build-isolation --global-option="--cpp_ext" --global-option="--cuda_ext" ./

Inference

To ensure that our generative model is ready to use right out of the box, we provide a user-friendly CLI program and a locally deployable Web Demo site.

CLI

  1. Install Lumina-Next-T2I
pip install -e .
  1. Prepare the pre-trained model

⭐⭐ (Recommended) you can use huggingface_cli to download our model:

huggingface-cli download --resume-download Alpha-VLLM/Lumina-Next-T2I --local-dir /path/to/ckpt

or using git for cloning the model you want to use:

git clone https://huggingface.co/Alpha-VLLM/Lumina-Next-T2I
  1. Setting your personal inference configuration

Update your own personal inference settings to generate different styles of images, checking config/infer/config.yaml for detailed settings. Detailed config structure:

/path/to/ckpt should be a directory containing consolidated*.pth and model_args.pth

- settings:

  model:
    ckpt: "/path/to/ckpt"           # if ckpt is "", you should use `--ckpt` for passing model path when using `lumina` cli.
    ckpt_lm: ""                     # if ckpt is "", you should use `--ckpt_lm` for passing model path when using `lumina` cli.
    token: ""                       # if LLM is a huggingface gated repo, you should input your access token from huggingface and when token is "", you should `--token` for accessing the model.

  transport:
    path_type: "Linear"             # option: ["Linear", "GVP", "VP"]
    prediction: "velocity"          # option: ["velocity", "score", "noise"]
    loss_weight: "velocity"         # option: [None, "velocity", "likelihood"]
    sample_eps: 0.1
    train_eps: 0.2

  ode:
    atol: 1e-6                      # Absolute tolerance
    rtol: 1e-3                      # Relative tolerance
    reverse: false                  # option: true or false
    likelihood: false               # option: true or false

  in

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

How it works

How image models work

Text promptwhat to makeText encoderunderstands itDiffusion stepsdenoise to pixelsImagePNG / JPEGA diffusion model starts from noise and denoises it, guided by your prompt, into a finished image.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys lumina-next-t2i for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (lumina-next-t2i 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":"lumina-next-t2i","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.

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