Model reference · open weights
versatile-diffusion is an open-weight image model from shi-labs. 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 | shi-labs |
|---|---|
| Type | Image models |
| Task | Text→image |
| Runs with | diffusers |
| Released | 2022-11-22 |
| Popularity | 2k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
We built Versatile Diffusion (VD), the first unified multi-flow multimodal diffusion framework, as a step towards Universal Generative AI. Versatile Diffusion can natively support image-to-text, image-variation, text-to-image, and text-variation, and can be further extended to other applications such as semantic-style disentanglement, image-text dual-guided generation, latent image-to-text-to-image editing, and more. Future versions will support more modalities such as speech, music, video and 3D.
One single flow of Versatile Diffusion contains a VAE, a diffuser, and a context encoder, and thus handles one task (e.g., text-to-image) under one data type (e.g., image) and one context type (e.g., text). The multi-flow structure of Versatile Diffusion shows in the following diagram:
@article{xu2022versatile,
title = {Versatile Diffusion: Text, Images and Variations All in One Diffusion Model},
author = {Xingqian Xu, Zhangyang Wang, Eric Zhang, Kai Wang, Humphrey Shi},
year = 2022,
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.08332},
eprint = {2211.08332},
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
primaryclass = {cs.CV}
}
You can use the model both with the 🧨Diffusers library and the SHI-Labs Versatile Diffusion codebase.
Diffusers let's you both use a unified and more memory-efficient, task-specific pipelines.
Make sure to install transformers from "main" in order to use this model.:
pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers
To use Versatile Diffusion for all tasks, it is recommend to use the VersatileDiffusionPipeline
#! pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers diffusers torch
from diffusers import VersatileDiffusionPipeline
import torch
import requests
from io import BytesIO
from PIL import Image
pipe = VersatileDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("shi-labs/versatile-diffusion", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe = pipe.to("cuda")
# prompt
prompt = "a red car"
# initial image
url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/diffusers/images/resolve/main/benz.jpg"
response = requests.get(url)
image = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content)).convert("RGB")
# text to image
image = pipe.text_to_image(prompt).images[0]
# image variation
image = pipe.image_variation(image).images[0]
# image variation
image = pipe.dual_guided(prompt, image).images[0]
The task specific pipelines load only the weights that are needed onto GPU. You can find all task specific pipelines here.
You can use them as follows:
from diffusers import VersatileDiffusionTextToImagePipeline
import torch
pipe = VersatileDiffusionTextToImagePipeline.from_pretrained("shi-labs/versatile-diffusion", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe.remove_unused_weights()
pipe = pipe.to("cuda")
generator = torch.Generator(device="cuda").manual_seed(0)
image = pipe("an astronaut riding on a horse on mars", generator=generator).images[0]
image.save("./astronaut.png")
from diffusers import VersatileDiffusionImageVariationPipeline
import torch
import requests
from io import BytesIO
from PIL import Image
# download an initial image
url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/diffusers/images/resolve/main/benz.jpg"
response = requests.get(url)
image = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content)).convert("RGB")
pipe = VersatileDiffusionImageVariationPipeline.from_pretrained("shi-labs/versatile-diffusion", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe = pipe.to("cuda")
generator = torch.Generator(device="cuda").manual_seed(0)
image = pipe(image, generator=generator).images[0]
image.save("./car_variation.png")
from diffusers import VersatileDiffusionDualGuidedPipeline
import torch
import requests
from io import BytesIO
from PIL import Image
# download an initial image
url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/diffusers/images/resolve/main/benz.jpg"
response = requests.get(url)
image = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content)).convert("RGB")
text = "a red car in the sun"
pipe = VersatileDiffusionDualGuidedPipeline.from_pretrained("shi-labs/versatile-diffusion", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe.remove_unused_weights()
pipe = pipe.to("cuda")
generator = torch.Generator(device="cuda").manual_seed(0)
text_to_image_strength = 0.75
image = pipe(prompt=text, image=image, text_to_image_strength=text_to_image_strength, generator=generator).images[0]
image.save("./red_car.png")
Follow the instructions here.
We would like the raise the awareness of users of this demo of its potential issues and concerns. Like previous large foundation models, Versatile Diffusion could be problematic in some cases, partially due to the imperfect training data and pretrained network (VAEs / context encoders) with limited scope. In its future research phase, VD may do better on tasks such as text-to-image, image-to-text, etc., with the help of mor
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
How it works
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys versatile-diffusion for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (versatile-diffusion 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":"versatile-diffusion","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'
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