Architecture
High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
LMU Munich·December 20, 2021
Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Dominik Lorenz
View on arXivTL;DR
Runs diffusion in a compressed latent space instead of pixel space, slashing the compute needed for high-resolution image generation.
Why it matters
The method behind Stable Diffusion. Moving diffusion into latent space is what made open, consumer-GPU image generation possible.