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Table of Contents - [Transcription](#transcription) - [misc tooling](#misc-tooling) - [Apps](#apps) - [Translation](#translation) - [Stem separation](#stem-separation) - [Music generation](#music-generation)
## Transcription (Speech to Text or ASR) [High level](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/14xxg6i/comment/jrsbfps/) ### API If you simply want to submit your audio files and have an API transcribe them, then Whisper JAX is hands-down the best option for you: [https://huggingface.co/spaces/sanchit-gandhi/whisper-jax](https://huggingface.co/spaces/sanchit-gandhi/whisper-jax) The demo is powered by two TPU v4-8's, so it has serious fire-power to transcribe long audio files quickly (1hr of audio in about 30s). It's currently got a limit of 2hr per audio upload, but you could use the Gradio client API to automatically ping this space with all 10k of your 30 mins audio files sequentially, and return the transcriptions: [https://twitter.com/sanchitgandhi99/status/1656665496463495168](https://twitter.com/sanchitgandhi99/status/1656665496463495168) This way, you get all the benefits of the API, without having to run the model locally yourself! IMO this is the fastest way to set-up your transcription protocol, and also the fastest way to transcribe the audios 😉 https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/16ftd9v/p_whisper_large_benchmark_137_days_of_audio/ # 137 DAYS of Audio Transcribed in 15 Hours for Just $117 ($0.00059/min) ### Run locally By locally, we mean running the model yourself (either on your local device, or on a Cloud device). I have experience with a few of these implementations, and here are my thoughts: 1. Original Whisper: [https://github.com/openai/whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper). Baseline implementation 2. Hugging Face Whisper: [https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v2#long-form-transcription](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v2#long-form-transcription). Uses an efficient batching algorithm to give a 7x speed-up on long-form audio samples. By far the easiest way of using Whisper: just `pip install transformers` and run it as per the code sample! No crazy dependencies, easy API, no extra optimisation packages, loads of documentation and love on [GitHub](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) ❤️. Compatible with fine-tuning if you want this! 3. Whisper JAX: [https://github.com/sanchit-gandhi/whisper-jax](https://github.com/sanchit-gandhi/whisper-jax). Builds on the Hugging Face implementation. Written in JAX (instead of PyTorch), where you get a 10x or more speed-up if you run it on TPU v4 hardware (I've gotten up to 15x with large batch sizes for super long audio files). Overall, 70-100x faster than OpenAI if you run it on TPU v4 4. Faster Whisper: [https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper](https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper). 4x faster than original, also for short form audio samples. But no extra gains for long form on top of this - see also https://github.com/linto-ai/whisper-timestamped and other tools https://github.com/abus-aikorea/voice-pro 6. Whisper X: [https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX](https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX). Uses Faster Whisper under-the-hood, so same speed-ups. 7. Whisper cpp: [https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp). Written in cpp. Super fast to boot up and run. Works on-device (e.g. a laptop or phone) since it's quantised and in cpp. Quoted as transcribing 1hr of audio in approx 8.5 minutes (so about 17x slower than Whisper JAX on TPU v4) ## 2024 - realtime whisper webgpu in browser: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/realtime-whisper-webgpu - june: async version https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/whisper-webgpu ### 2023 - [https://github.com/ochen1/insanely-fast-whisper-cli](https://t.co/sphlCVJ35d) - [https://github.com/ycyy/faster-whisper-webui](https://t.co/7weHsstQbv) - [https://github.com/themanyone/whisper_dictation](https://t.co/tyqPlfcADa) - [https://github.com/huggingface/distil-whisper](https://t.co/nygkxwiWOt) - https://pypi.org/project/SpeechRecognition/ - https://github.com/openai/whisper - the --initial_prompt CLI arg: For my use, I put a bunch of industry jargon and names that are commonly misspelled in there and that fixes 1/3 to 1/2 of the errors. - https://freesubtitles.ai/ (hangs my browser when i try it) - https://github.com/mayeaux/generate-subtitles - [theory](https://twitter.com/ethanCaballero/status/1572692314400628739?s=20&t=j_XtR82eEW6Vp28YvodqJQ): whisper is a way to get more tokens from youtube for gpt4 - Real time whisper [https://github.com/shirayu/whispering](https://github.com/shirayu/whispering) - whisper running on $300 device https://twitter.com/drjimfan/status/1616471309961269250?s=46&t=4t17Fxog8a65leEnHNZwVw - whisper can be hosted on https://deepinfra.com/ - whisperX with diarization https://twitter.com/maxhbain/status/1619698716914622466 https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX Improved timestamps and speaker identification - model served https://replicate.com/thomasmol/whisper-diarization - https://huggingface.co/spaces/vumichien/Whisper_speaker_diarization - real time whisper - https://github.com/davabase/whisper_real_time - https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/608 - whisper as a service self hosting GUI and queueing https://github.com/schibsted/WAAS - Live microphone demo (not real time, it still does it in chunks) [https://github.com/mallorbc/whisper_mic](https://github.com/mallorbc/whisper_mic) - Whisper webservice ([https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice](https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice)) - via this thread - Whisper UI https://github.com/hayabhay/whisper-ui - Streamlit UI [https://github.com/hayabhay/whisper-ui](https://github.com/hayabhay/whisper-ui) - Whisper playground [https://github.com/saharmor/whisper-playground](https://github.com/saharmor/whisper-playground) - whisper in the browser https://www.ermine.ai/ - Transcribe-anything https://github.com/zackees/transcribe-anything automates video fetching and uses whisper to generate .srt, .vtt and .txt files - MacWhisper [https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper](https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper) - ios whisper https://whispermemos.com/ 10 free, paid app - 🌟Crossplatform desktop Whisper that supports semi-realtime [https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz](https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz) - more whisper tooling https://ramsrigoutham.medium.com/openais-whisper-7-must-know-libraries-and-add-ons-built-on-top-of-it-10825bd08f76 - [https://github.com/dscripka/openWakeWord](https://github.com/dscripka/openWakeWord). The models are readily available in tflite and ONNX formats and are impressively "light" in terms of compute requirements and performance. - https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp High-performance inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model: - Plain C/C++ implementation without dependencies - Apple silicon first-class citizen - optimized via Arm Neon and Accelerate framework - AVX intrinsics support for x86 architectures - Mixed F16 / F32 precision - Low memory usage (Flash Attention + Flash Forward) - Zero memory allocations at runtime - Runs on the CPU - C-style API - a fork of whisper.cpp that uses DirectCompute to run it on GPUs without Cuda on Windows: https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper - Whisper.cpp small model is best traadeoff of performance vs accuracy https://blog.lopp.net/open-source-transcription-software-comparisons/ - https://github.com/Vaibhavs10/insanely-fast-whisper Transcribe 150 minutes (2.5 hours) of audio in less than 98 seconds - with OpenAI's Whisper Large v3. - Whisper.api - [Open-source, self-hosted speech-to-text with fast transcription](https://github.com/innovatorved/whisper.api) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37226221 -  [https://superwhisper.com](https://superwhisper.com/) is using these whisper.cpp models to provide really good Dictation on macOS. - Whisper with JAX - 70x faster - https://twitter.com/sanchitgandhi99/status/1649046650793648128?s=20 - whisper openai api https://twitter.com/calumbirdo/status/1614826199527690240?s=46&t=-lurfKb2OVOpdzSMz0juIw - speech separation model https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264#discussioncomment-4706132 - https://github.com/miguelvalente/whisperer - deep speech https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech - out of https://commonvoice.mozilla.org dataset - https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS fork of deepspeech since 2021 - [Mozilla DeepSpeech](https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech?ref=blog.lopp.net) - an open-source Speech-To-Text engine, using a model trained by machine learning techniques based on Baidu's Deep Speech research paper. It uses Google's TensorFlow to make the implementation easier. Looks like it was actively developed from 2017 to late 2020 but has since been abandoned. - [Flashlight](https://github.com/flashlight/flashlight?ref=blog.lopp.net) is a fast, flexible machine learning library written entirely in C++ from the Facebook AI Research and the creators of Torch, TensorFlow, Eigen and Deep Speech. The project encompasses several apps, including the [Automatic Speech Recognition](https://github.com/flashlight/flashlight/tree/master/flashlight/app/asr?ref=blog.lopp.net) app for transcription. - [Speechbrain](https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain?ref=blog.lopp.net) is a conversational AI toolkit based on PyTorch. From browsing their documentation it looks like this is more of a programming library designed for building processing pipelines than a standalone transcription tool that you can just feed audio files into. As such, I didn't test it. - **Deepgram** 80x faster than > Whisper https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35367655 - strong endorsement - deepgram Nova model https://twitter.com/DeepgramAI/status/1646558003079057409 - Assemblyai conformer https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/conformer-1/ - google has a closed "Universal Speech" model https://sites.research.google/usm/ - whisperspeech - open source TTS 80m model from LAION - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OBvf33S77Y https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33663486 - https://whispermemos.com pressing button on my Lock Screen and getting a perfect transcription in my inbox. - whisper on AWS - the g4dn machines are the sweet spot of price/performance. - https://simonsaysai.com to generate subtitles and they had the functionality to input specialized vocabulary, - https://skyscraper.ai/ using assemblyai - Read.ai - https://www.read.ai/transcription Provides transcription & diarization and the bot integrates into your calendar. It joins all your meetings for zoom, teams, meet, webex, tracks talk time, gives recommendations, etc. - https://huggingface.co/spaces/vumichien/whisper-speaker-diarization This space uses Whisper models from [**OpenAI**](https://github.com/openai/whisper) to recoginze the speech and ECAPA-TDNN model from [**SpeechBrain**](https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain) to encode and clasify speakers - https://github.com/Majdoddin/nlp pyannote diarization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33665692 ### Products - productized whisper https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper - [whisper turbo](https://whisper-turbo.com) - purely in browser ([tweet context](https://twitter.com/fleetwood___/status/1709364288358662479)), using webgpu - other speech to text apis - rev.com - https://text-generator.io/blog/cost-effective-speech-to-text-api - Podcast summarization - feather ai https://twitter.com/joshcadorette/status/1605361535454351362 - sumly ai https://twitter.com/dvainrub/status/1608175955733798913 - Teleprompter - https://github.com/danielgross/teleprompter - Everything happens privately on your computer. In order to achieve fast latency locally, we use embeddings or a small fine-tuned model. - The data is from Kaggle's quotes database, and the embeddings were computed using SentenceTransformer, which then runs locally on ASR. I also finetuned a small T5 model that sorta works (but goes crazy a lot). - https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1605322535930941441 - language teacher - quazel https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32993130 - https://twitter.com/JavaFXpert/status/1617296705975906306?s=20 - speech to text on the edge https://twitter.com/michaelaubry/status/1635966225628164096?s=20 with arduino nicla voice - assemblyai conformer-1 https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/conformer-1/ - https://replit.com/@assemblyai/Speech-To-Text-Example?v=1#main.py ## Text to Speech https://github.com/Vaibhavs10/open-tts-tracker - services - Play.ht or Podcast.ai - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/fake-joe-rogan-interviews-fake-steve-jobs-in-an-ai-powered-podcast/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35328698#35333601 - https://news.play.ht/post/introducing-playht-2-0-turbo-the-fastest-generative-ai-text-to-speech-api - https://speechify.com/ - mycroft [https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/](https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/) - https://blog.elevenlabs.io/enter-the-new-year-with-a-bang/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34361651 - convai - - not as flexible, the indian fella at roboflow ai demo wanted to move to elevenlabs - murf - a16z ai presentation - bigclouds - [ https://aws.amazon.com/polly/](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/) - [https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech](https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech) - [https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cognitive-service...](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cognitive-services/text-to-speech/) - Narakeet - https://twitter.com/jessicard/status/1642867214943412224 - https://www.resemble.ai/ - myshell TTS https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1671488252568834048 - OSS - pyttsx3  [https://pyttsx3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/engine.html](https://pyttsx3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/engine.html) - https://github.com/lucidrains/audiolm-pytorch Implementation of [AudioLM](https://google-research.github.io/seanet/audiolm/examples/), a Language Modeling Approach to Audio Generation out of Google Research, in Pytorch It also extends the work for conditioning with classifier free guidance with T5. This allows for one to do text-to-audio or TTS, not offered in the paper. - tortoise  [https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts](https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts) - [https://nonint.com/static/tortoise_v2_examples.html](https://nonint.com/static/tortoise_v2_examples.html) - used in scribepod https://twitter.com/yacinemtb/status/1608993955835957248?s=46&t=ikA-et-is_MNr-8HTO8e1A - https://scribepod.substack.com/p/scribepod-1#details - https://github.com/yacineMTB/scribepod/blob/master/lib/processWebpage.ts#L27 - https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS - previously mozilla TTS - [Metavoice TTS - 1b v0.1](https://twitter.com/reach_vb/status/1754984949654904988) - includes voice cloning - https://github.com/suno-ai/bark - tried Bark... at least on CPU-only it's very very slow - like 20 seconds to generate a few sentences - [dimfeld](https://discord.com/channels/822583790773862470/1154150004437561405/1154169073509351606) likes Mycroft Mimic 3 for locally run, chat assistant usecases that require realtime - https://huggingface.co/facebook/mms-tts - custom voices - https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts#voice-customization-guide - microsoft and google cloud have apis - twilio maybe - VallE when it comes out - https://github.com/Plachtaa/VALL-E-X - research papers - https://speechresearch.github.io/naturalspeech/ - research paper from very short voice sample https://valle-demo.github.io/ - [https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx](https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx) - pico2wave with the -l=en-GB flag to get the British lady voice is not too bad for offline free TTS. You can hear it in this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfcme7maygw&t=45s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfcme7maygw&t=45s) - [https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng](https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng) (for very specific non-english purposes, and I was willing to wrangle IPA) - Vall-E to synthesize https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1622637578112606208?s=20 - microsoft? - https://github.com/Plachtaa/VALL-E-X - research unreleased - google had something with morgan freeman voice - meta voicebox https://ai.facebook.com/blog/voicebox-generative-ai-model-speech/ ### misc tooling - https://github.com/words/syllable and ecosystem - speaker diarization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33892105 - [https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio](https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio) - [https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00931](https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00931) - example diarization impl https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1V-Bt5Hm2kjaDb4P1RyMSswsDKyrzc2-3?usp=sharing - from pyannote.audio.pipelines.speaker_verification import PretrainedSpeakerEmbedding - https://lablab.ai/t/whisper-transcription-and-speaker-identification - noise cleaning - adobe enhance speech for cleaning up spoken audio https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34047976 https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance - https://github.com/elanmart/cbp-translate - Process short video clips (e.g. a single scene) - Work with multiple characters / speakers - Detect and transcribe speech in both English and Polish - Translate the speech to any language - Assign each phrase to a speaker - Show the speaker on the screen - Add subtitles to the original video in a way mimicking the Cyberpunk example - Have a nice frontend - Run remotely in the cloud - https://essentia.upf.edu/ - Extensive collection of reusable algorithms - Cross-platform - Fast prototyping - Industrial applications - Similarity - Classification - Deep learning inference - Mood detection - Key detection - Onset detection - Segmentation - Beat tracking - Melody extraction - Audio fingerprinting - Cover song detection - Spectral analysis - Loudness metering - Audio problems detection - Voice analysis - Synthesis - https://github.com/regorxxx/Music-Graph An open source graph representation of most genres and styles found on popular, classical and folk music. Usually used to compute similarity (by distance) between 2 sets of genres/styles. - https://github.com/regorxxx/Camelot-Wheel-Notation Javascript implementation of the Camelot Wheel, ready to use "harmonic mixing" rules and translations for standard key notations. ### Apps - youtube whisper (large-v2 support) https://twitter.com/jeffistyping/status/1600549658949931008 - list of audio editing ai apps https://twitter.com/ramsri_goutham/status/1592754049719603202?s=20&t=49HqYD7DyViRl_T5foZAxA - https://beta.elevenlabs.io/ techmeme ridehome - voice generation in your own voice from existing samples (not reading script) ### Translation - https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate ## Stem separation - https://github.com/deezer/spleeter (and bpm detection) - https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs demux model - used at outside lands llm ahackathon can strip vocals from a sound https://sonauto.app/ - used in lalal.ai as well ## Music generation general consensus is that it's just not very good right now - Meta https://ai.meta.com/blog/audiocraft-musicgen-audiogen-encodec-generative-ai-audio/ - AudioCraft consists of three models: [MusicGen](https://huggingface.co/spaces/facebook/MusicGen), [AudioGen](https://felixkreuk.github.io/audiogen/), and [EnCodec](https://ai.meta.com/blog/ai-powered-audio-compression-technique/). - MusicGen, which was trained with Meta-owned and specifically licensed music, generates music from text-based user inputs, - while AudioGen, which was trained on public sound effects, generates audio from text-based user inputs. - Today, we’re excited to release an improved version of - our EnCodec decoder, which allows for higher quality music generation with fewer artifacts; - our pre-trained AudioGen model, which lets you generate environmental sounds and sound effects like a dog barking, cars honking, or footsteps on a wooden floor; and - all of the AudioCraft model weights and code. - disco diffusion? - img-to-music via CLIP interrogator => Mubert ([HF space](https://huggingface.co/spaces/fffiloni/img-to-music), [tweet](https://twitter.com/fffiloni/status/1585698118137483276)) - https://soundraw.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33727550 - Riffusion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33999162 - Bark - text to audio https://github.com/suno-ai/bark - https://www.kdnuggets.com/2023/05/bark-ultimate-audio-generation-model.html - Google AudioLM https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/07/1060897/ai-audio-generation/ Google’s new AI can hear a snippet of song—and then keep on playing - how it works https://www.shaped.ai/blog/sounding-the-secrets-of-audiolm - AudioLDM https://github.com/haoheliu/AudioLDM speech, soud effects, music - https://huggingface.co/spaces/haoheliu/audioldm-text-to-audio-generation - MusicLM https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/ - reactions https://twitter.com/JacquesThibs/status/1618839343661203456 - implementation https://github.com/lucidrains/musiclm-pytorch - https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12662 singsong voice generation - small demo apps - beatbot.fm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34994444 - sovitz svc - taylor swift etc voice synth - https://www.vulture.com/article/ai-singers-drake-the-weeknd-voice-clones.html ## misc - vocode - ycw23 - - an open source library for building LLM applications you can talk to. Vocode makes it easy to take any text-based LLM and make it voice-based. Our repo is at [https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python](https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python) and our docs are at [https://docs.vocode.dev](https://docs.vocode.dev/). - Building realtime voice apps with LLMs is powerful but hard. You have to orchestrate the speech recognition, LLM, and speech synthesis in real-time (all async)–while handling the complexity of conversation (like understanding when someone is finished speaking or handling interruptions). - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35358873 - audio datasets - https://github.com/LAION-AI/audio-dataset/blob/main/data_collection/README.md - https://www.audiocontentanalysis.org/datasets - https://huggingface.co/datasets/Hyeon2/riffusion-musiccaps-dataset/viewer/Hyeon2--riffusion-musiccaps-dataset/train - audio formats - https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Asupercollider%2Fsupercollider++language%3ASuperCollider&type=code - https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Agrame-cncm%2Ffaust++language%3AFaust&type=code - https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Acsound%2Fcsound++language%3A%22Csound+Document%22&type=code ## /CODE.md 2x coding speed https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-copilots-impact-on-developer-productivity-and-happiness/ code improves reasoning - starcoder has reasoning abilities https://twitter.com/LoubnaBenAllal1/status/1655932410566168577 - replit too (amasad tweet only source so far) - yao fu is exploring this actively https://twitter.com/Francis_YAO_/status/1657985409706762241 - [Large Language Models trained on code reason better, even on benchmarks that have nothing to do with code. Some good discussion here about the topic:](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/13gk5da/r_large_language_models_trained_on_code_reason/) - linked to [coding -> chain of thought](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/13gk5da/comment/jk29amd/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) ccording to the post, Claude 2 now 71.2%, a significant upgrade from 1.3 (56.0%). (Found in model card: pass@1) For comparison: * GPT-4 claims 85.4 on HumanEval, in a recent paper [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366.pdf) GPT-4 was tested at 80.1 pass@1 and 91 pass@1 using their Reflexion technique. They also include MBPP and Leetcode Hard benchmark comparisons * WizardCoder, a StarCoder fine-tune is one of the top open models, scoring a 57.3 pass@1, model card here: [https://huggingface.co/WizardLM/WizardCoder-15B-V1.0](https://huggingface.co/WizardLM/WizardCoder-15B-V1.0) * The best open model I know of atm is replit-code-instruct-glaive, a replit-code-3b fine tune, which scores a 63.5% pass@1. An independent developer abacaj has reproduced that announcement as part of code-eval, a repo for getting human-eval results: [https://github.com/abacaj/code-eval](https://github.com/abacaj/code-eval) Those interested in this area may also want to take a look at this repo [https://github.com/my-other-github-account/llm-humaneval-ben...](https://github.com/my-other-github-account/llm-humaneval-benchmarks) that also ranks with Eval+, the CanAiCode Leaderboard [https://huggingface.co/spaces/mike-ravkine/can-ai-code-resul...](https://huggingface.co/spaces/mike-ravkine/can-ai-code-results) and airate [https://github.com/catid/supercharger/tree/main/airate](https://github.com/catid/supercharger/tree/main/airate) Also, as with all LLM evals, to be taken with a grain of salt...pull Liu, Jiawei, Chunqiu Steven Xia, Yuyao Wang, and Lingming Zhang. “Is Your Code Generated by ChatGPT Really Correct? Rigorous Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code Generation.” arXiv, June 12, 2023. [https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.01210](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.01210). ## Data/Timeline - 2010: natural language coding is going to work https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2010/11/programming-with-natural-language-is-actually-going-to-work/ - Oct 2021: Github Copilot technical preview - [team of 6 working on it](https://twitter.com/alexgraveley/status/1607897474965839872) - Dec 2021: Github Copilot [for businesses](https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/21/githubs_ai_code_assistant_copilot/) - Feb 2022: February, DeepMind introduced [AlphaCode](https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/competitive-coder/), a transformer pretrained on 86 million programs in 12 programming languages and fine-tuned on entries to coding contests. At inference, it generates a million possible solutions and filters out the bad ones. In this way, it retroactively beat more than half of contestants in 10 coding competitions. - Apr 2022: https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2023/04/02/llm-assisted-programming/ state of programming - Jun 2022: Github Copilot GA - Sep 2022: Github Copilot [productivity survey](https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2022/09/13/copilot-impact.aspx) - Sep 2022: BigCODE https://www.servicenow.com/blogs/2022/bigcode-large-language-models.html - Oct 2022: The Stack: 3 TB of permissively licensed source code in 30 programming languages https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack - Nov 2022: Kite.com public failure https://www.kite.com/blog/product/kite-is-saying-farewell/ - Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools. Their manager might, but engineering managers only want to pay for discrete new capabilities, i.e. making their developers 18% faster when writing code did not resonate strongly enough. - Nov 2022: https://www.codeium.com/blog/beta-launch-announcement - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/codeium/hobjkcpmjhlegmobgonaagepfckjkceh/related - Dec 2022: reverse engineering copilot https://thakkarparth007.github.io/copilot-explorer/posts/copilot-internals.html#other-random-tidbits - https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot This is an attempt to build a locally hosted version of [GitHub Copilot](https://copilot.github.com/). It uses the [SalesForce CodeGen](https://github.com/salesforce/CodeGen) models inside of NVIDIA's [Triton Inference Server](https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-triton-inference-server) with the [FasterTransformer backend](https://github.com/triton-inference-server/fastertransformer_backend/). - Dec 2022: alphacode evaluation https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/main/ipynb/AlphaCode.ipynb - Jan 2023: Copilot Labs https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.copilot-labs - Feb 2023 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-copilot-update-stops-ai-model-from-revealing-secrets/ Copilot will introduce a new paradigm called "Fill-In-the-Middle," which uses a library of known code suffixes and leaves a gap for the AI tool to fill, achieving better relevance and coherence with the rest of the project's code. Additionally, GitHub has updated the client of Copilot to reduce unwanted suggestions by 4.5% for improved overall code acceptance rates. "When we first launched GitHub Copilot for Individuals in June 2022, more than 27% of developers’ code files on average were generated by GitHub Copilot," Senior Director of Product Management Shuyin Zhao said. "Today, GitHub Copilot is behind an average of 46% of a developers’ code across all programming languages—and in Java, that number jumps to 61%." - March 2023 - more ambitious with small scripts - https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/ai-enhanced-development/ - geoffrey litt stuff - March 2023 - Codium AI - 11m seed - https://www.codium.ai/blog/codiumai-powered-by-testgpt-accounces-beta-and-raised-11m/ - April 2023 - Replit v1 code 3b announced - May 2023 - Huggingface/ServiceNow Starcoder https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/hugging-face-and-servicenow-release-a-free-code-generating-model/?guccounter=1 - June 2023 - phi-1 beats chatgpt at coding with 1.3b parameters, and only 7B tokens _for several epochs_ of pretraining data. 1/7th of that data being synthetically generated :O The rest being extremely high quality textbook data https://twitter.com/Teknium1/status/1671336110684012545?s=20 - https://twitter.com/EldanRonen/status/1671361731837456385 - https://twitter.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1671326369626853376?s=20 - aug 2023 - july shanghai newhope model https://twitter.com/mathemagic1an/status/1686814347287486464?s=20 ## Known Issues - Ryan Salva on how Copilot works + how to gain developer trust https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33226515 - https://medium.com/@enoch3712/github-copilot-is-under-the-hood-how-it-works-and-getting-the-best-out-of-it-4699d4dc3cd8 - cushman - 2048 tokens - davinci - 4k tokens - vulnerabilities https://www.spiceworks.com/it-security/security-general/news/40-of-code-produced-by-github-copilot-vulnerable-to-threats-research/ - codex-davinci-002 [Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622) some vulns found in C code with 75 participants - [media report](https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/21/ai_assistants_bad_code/) - codex-cushman-001 https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09727 - Github Copilot investigation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33240341 - Readers write more insecure code https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622 https://info.deeplearning.ai/generated-code-makes-overconfident-programmers-chinas-autonomous-drone-carrier-does-bot-therapy-require-informed-consent-mining-for-green-tech-1 ## code models - bloom bigcode https://www.servicenow.com/blogs/2022/bigcode-large-language-models.html - salesforce codegen - Nijkamp, E., Pang, B., Hayashi, H., Tu, L., Wang, H., Zhou, Y., Savarese, S., and Xiong, C. (2022). Codegen: An open large language model for code with multi-turn program synthesis. arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.13474. - Nijkamp, E., Hayashi, H., Xiong, C., Savarese, S., and Zhou, Y. (2023). **Codegen2**: Lessons for training llms on programming and natural languages. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.02309. - Codegen 2.5 - [just one subtle detail added to this model makes codegen 2.5 substantially faster than codegen 2 All it required was increasing the number of attention heads from 16 to 32...](https://twitter.com/amanrsanger/status/1677090522589188097) - grafted onto openllama https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1677333465996353541 - the stack from eleuther - Li, R., Allal, L. B., Zi, Y., Muennighoff, N., Kocetkov, D., Mou, C., Marone, M., Akiki, C., Li, J., Chim, J., et al. (2023). Starcoder: may the source be with you! arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06161. - https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-base ## benchmarks https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.06689.pdf MBPP [Austin et al., 2021] This benchmark, referred to as "Mostly Basic Programming Problems", contains nearly 1000 crowd-sourced python programming problems, covering programming fundamentals, standard library functionality, and more. Each problem in the benchmark consists of a NL description, a code solution, and 3 automated test cases. A portion of the manually verified data is extracted as "MBPP-sanitized". For MBPP, which does not include function signatures, only the NL description is provided as input. HumanEval [Chen et al., 2021] This benchmark is a set of 164 handwritten programming problems, proposed by OpenAI. Each problem includes a function signature, NL description, function body, and several unit tests, with an average of 7.7 tests per problem. For HumanEval, function signature, NL description, and public test cases are provided as input. Furthermore, we utilize an expanded version of MBPP and HumanEval , which includes over 100 additional test cases per task, to reinforce the validity of code evaluation [Dong et al., 2023]. This extended version is referred to as MBPP-ET and HumanEval-ET. bigcode eval harness https://github.com/bigcode-project/bigcode-evaluation-harness/ ## products (alessio's blogpost https://evcrevolution.com/p/evc-10-llm-for-developers) sourcegraph list https://github.com/sourcegraph/awesome-code-ai - tensai refactor pr codegen https://twitter.com/mathemagic1an/status/1610023513334878208?s=46&t=HZzqUlCKP3qldVBoBwEzZg - Magic https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/06/magic-dev-code-generating-startup-raises-23m/ - unmaintained - https://github.com/CodedotAl/gpt-code-clippy - https://github.com/samrawal/emacs-secondmate - Code IDEs - Introducing Cursor!! ([https://cursor.so](https://t.co/wT5wRe22O2))Cursor IDE https://twitter.com/amanrsanger/status/1615539968772050946 - why is this not a vscode extension? - https://idx.dev/ Project IDX is an entirely web-based workspace for full-stack application development, complete with the latest generative AI (powered by Codey and PaLM 2), and full-fidelity app previews - E2b - from vasek https://github.com/e2b-dev/e2b - the pandas extension thing - https://github.com/approximatelabs/sketch - built on lambdaprompt https://github.com/approximatelabs/lambdaprompt - pandas dataframe chat https://github.com/gventuri/pandas-ai - prefectio marvin ai - custom languages - LMQL - https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/eva EVA DB is an AI-SQL database system for developing applications powered by AI models. We aim to simplify the development and deployment of AI-powered applications that operate on structured (tables, feature stores) and unstructured data (videos, text, podcasts, PDFs, etc.). EVA DB accelerates AI pipelines by 10-100x using a collection of performance optimizations inspired by time-tested SQL database systems, including data-parallel query execution, function caching, sampling, and cost-based predicate reordering. EVA supports an AI-oriented SQL-like query language tailored for analyzing both structured and unstructured data. It has first-class support for PyTorch, Hugging Face, YOLO, and Open AI models. - https://github.com/alantech/marsha LLM-based programming language. Describe what you want done with a simple syntax, provide examples of usage, and the Marsha compiler will guide an LLM to produce tested Python software. - copilot labs - https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2023/01/06/the-future-just-happened-developer-experience-and-ai-are-now-inextricably-linked/ - http://www.useadrenaline.com/ Show HN: Fully LLM powered code repair – fix and explain your code in seconds - [Gptcommit: Never write a commit message again (with the help of GPT-3)](https://zura.wiki/post/never-write-a-commit-message-again-with-the-help-of-gpt-3/) - yet another https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34591733 - https://github.com/Nutlope/aicommits - or [chadCommit](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lennartlence.chadcommit) inside vscode - https://github.com/di-sukharev/opencommit - https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider - vscode extensions - https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-coding-tools - https://continue.dev/ - ![https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4D22AQEA0JDCbyh_lQ/feedshare-shrink_2048_1536/0/1681887453686?e=1686182400&v=beta&t=0HfD2mXzDFC1Oc0S6twegX09lRb1WIui97jpcWK5qV8](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4D22AQEA0JDCbyh_lQ/feedshare-shrink_2048_1536/0/1681887453686?e=1686182400&v=beta&t=0HfD2mXzDFC1Oc0S6twegX09lRb1WIui97jpcWK5qV8) - santacoder typosaurus https://twitter.com/corbtt/status/1616270918774575105?s=46&t=ZSeI0ovGBee8JBeXEe20Mg semantic linter that spots errors in code - GPT Prompt Engineer https://github.com/mshumer/gpt-prompt-engineer - Buildt - AI-powered search allows you to find code by searching for what it does, not just what it is. - https://twitter.com/AlistairPullen/status/1611011712345317378 - https://www.grit.io/ - codegen ai - Continue.dev VSCode downloads ~15K, Rift ~2,100 - morph labs rift - qqbot - dan robinson? - YC - code generation - second.dev https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083093 - Pygma is used to convert Figma mockups into production-ready code. - code search - Phind https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35543668 - bloop - AI code search https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34892541 - private code search w animation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36260961 - sourcegraph cody - buildt stackoverflow.gg https://twitter.com/bentossell/status/1622513022781587456 - What comes after Copilot? My take: a conversation with your codebase! Introducing Tensai, your repo-level code assistant http://TensaiCode.com - jay hacks - Tabby - Self Hosted GitHub Copilot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35470915 - codecomplete - ycw23 - copilot for enterprise https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35152851 - CodeComplete offers an experience similar to Copilot; we serve AI code completions as developers type in their IDEs. However, instead of sending private code snippets to GitHub or OpenAI, we use a self-hosted LLM to serve code completions. Another advantage with self-hosting is that it’s more straightforward to securely fine-tune to the company’s codebase. Copilot suggestions aren’t always tailored to a company’s coding patterns or internal libraries, so this can help make our completions more relevant and avoid adding tech debt. - anysphere control.dev - an AI code editor that harnesses the power of GPT-4. It’s a drop-in replacement for VS Code, has context about your closed-source codebase, and it will make you 2x more productive tomorrow. - socket.dev ai security scanning https://socket.dev/blog/introducing-socket-ai-chatgpt-powered-threat-analysis - https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/30/socket_chatgpt_malware/ - agent writing its own code in a loop https://github.com/pHaeusler/micro-agent ### autogenerate PRs - https://www.grit.io/ - https://twitter.com/MrHunterBrooks/status/1639373651010109442?s=20 - https://github.com/gitstart - [AutoPR](https://github.com/irgolic/AutoPR), a Github Action that autonomously writes a pull request in response to an issue https://twitter.com/IrgolicR/status/1652451501015457798 - code generation - codegen.ai - https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider - Sweep.dev https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36987454 ## commit msg generation - https://github.com/di-sukharev/opencommit - ai-commit - ai CLI from builderio https://github.com/BuilderIO/ai-shell ### Test generation Codium - https://www.codium.ai/blog/codiumai-powered-by-testgpt-accounces-beta-and-raised-11m/ - video demo https://twitter.com/mathemagic1an/status/1638598693623582720 ### GPT low code - https://github.com/jbilcke/latent-browser hallucinate by MIME types - https://github.com/TheAppleTucker/backend-GPT backend is all you need - https://withsutro.com/ text to app ## alternative languages - https://github.com/jbrukh/gpt-jargon pseudolanguage - https://github.com/eth-sri/lmql - https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/ - https://twitter.com/altryne/status/1661237105278988290/photo/1 - alternative https://blog.normalcomputing.ai/posts/2023-07-27-regex-guided-generation/regex-guided-generation.html ## function sdks - Python/pydantic https://twitter.com/AAAzzam/status/1671608335001370625 - ## misc - The size of all code/history on Github public repos is 92TB The size of Google's monorepo in 2015 was 86TB (of much higher quality code) If Google were willing to deploy code models trained on their own data, they'd have a noticable advantage over everyone else. https://twitter.com/amanrsanger/status/1656696500339249153 - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.06689.pdf importance of planning in codegen - maybe use tree of thoughts - CLI https://twitter.com/SpellcraftAI/status/1593393643305459712 ## /IMAGE_GEN.md
Table of Contents - [good reads](#good-reads) - [SD vs DallE vs MJ](#sd-vs-dalle-vs-mj) - [DallE](#dalle) - [Tooling](#tooling) - [Products](#products) - [Stable Diffusion prompts](#stable-diffusion-prompts) - [SD v2 prompts](#sd-v2-prompts) - [SD 1.4 vs 1.5 comparisons](#sd-14-vs-15-comparisons) - [Distilled Stable Diffusion](#distilled-stable-diffusion) - [SD2 vs SD1 user notes](#sd2-vs-sd1-user-notes) - [Hardware requirements](#hardware-requirements) - [Stable Diffusion](#stable-diffusion) - [SD Distros](#sd-distros) - [SD Major forks](#sd-major-forks) - [SD Prompt galleries and search engines](#sd-prompt-galleries-and-search-engines) - [SD Visual search](#sd-visual-search) - [SD Prompt generators](#sd-prompt-generators) - [Img2prompt - Reverse Prompt Engineering](#img2prompt---reverse-prompt-engineering) - [Explore Artists, styles, and modifiers](#explore-artists-styles-and-modifiers) - [SD Prompt Tools directories and guides](#sd-prompt-tools-directories-and-guides) - [Finetuning/Dreambooth](#finetuningdreambooth) - [How SD Works - Internals and Studies](#how-sd-works---internals-and-studies) - [SD Results](#sd-results) - [Img2Img](#img2img) - [Extremely detailed prompt examples](#extremely-detailed-prompt-examples) - [Solving Hands](#solving-hands) - [Midjourney prompts](#midjourney-prompts) - [Misc](#misc)
## Glossary [for total newbies](https://www.pcworld.com/article/1672975/the-best-ai-art-generators-for-you-midjourney-bing-and-more.html) - **Prompt:** A simple (or complex!) text description that describes that the image portrays. This is affected by the prompt weight (see below). - **txt2img (text-to-image)**: This is basically what we think of in terms of AI art: input a text prompt, generate an image. - **Negative prompt**: Anything you _don’t_ want to see in the final image. - **img2img: (image to image**): Instead of generating a scene from scratch, you can upload an image and use that as inspiration for the output image. Want to turn your dog into a king? Upload the dog’s photo, _then_ apply the AI art generation to the scene. - **Model:** AI uses different generative models (Stable Diffusion 1.5 or 2.1 are the most common, though there are many others like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney’s custom model) and each model will bring its own “look” to a scene. Experiment and see what works! - **Prompt weight:** How closely the model and image adheres to the prompt. This is one variable you may want to tweak on the sites that allow it. Simply put, a strong prompt weight won’t allow for much creativity by the AI algorithm, while a weak weight will. - **Sampler:** Nothing you probably need to worry about, though different samplers also affect the look of an image. - **Steps:** How many iterations an AI art generator will take to construct an image, generally improving the output. While many services will allow you to adjust this, a general rule of thumb is that anything over 50 steps offers diminishing improvements. One user uploaded a visual comparison of how [steps and samples affect the resulting image](https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569483&url=https://i.ibb.co/vm4fm7L/1661440027115223.jpg&xcust=2-1-1672975-1-0-0&sref=https://www.pcworld.com/article/1672975/the-best-ai-art-generators-for-you-midjourney-bing-and-more.html). - **Face fixing:** Some sites offer the ability to “fix” faces using algorithms like GFPGAN, which can make portraits look more lifelike. - **ControlNet:** A new algorithm, and not widely used. ControlNet is specifically designed for image-to-image generation, “locking” aspects of the original image so they can’t be changed. If you have an image of a black cat and want to change it to a calico, ControlNet could be used to preserve the original pose, simply changing the color. - **Upscaling:** Default images are usually small, square, 1,024×1,024 images, though not always. Though upscaling often “costs” more in terms of time and computing resources, upscaling the image is one way to get a “big” image that you can use for other purposes besides just showing off to your friends on social media. - **Inpainting:** This is a rather interesting form of image editing. Inpainting is basically like Photoshop plus AI: you can take an image and highlight a specific area, and then alter that area using AI. (You can also edit everything but the highlighted area, alternatively.) Imagine uploading a photo of your father, “inpainting” the area where his hair is, and then adding a crown or a clown’s wig with AI. - **Outpainting:** This uses AI to expand the bounds of the scene. Imagine you just have a small photo, shot on a beach in Italy. You could use outpainting to “expand” the shot, adding more of the (AI-generated) beach, perhaps a few birds or a distant building. It’s not something you’d normally think of! ## good reads - Ten Years of Image Synthesis https://zentralwerkstatt.org/blog/ten-years-of-image-synthesis - 2014-2017 https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1049412858755264512 - 2014-2022 https://twitter.com/c_valenzuelab/status/1562579547404455936 - wolfenstein 1992 vs 2014 https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1557815883837255680 - april 2022 dalle 2 - july 2022 craiyon/dailee mini - aug 2022 stable diffusion - getty, shutterstock, canva incorporated - midjourney progression in 2022 https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1595846677591904257 - eDiffi - Vision Transformers (ViT) Explained https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vision-transformers/ - team at Google Brain introduced [vision transformers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929?utm_campaign=The%20Batch&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8HbXG-ZkwAj82Nv49uUrBwOHz4zUj3mkyjIfEd5lU7h3JHZR0pEG5OpkUCPPqwWvqMbjWl) (ViTs) in 2020, and the architecture has undergone nonstop refinement since then. The latest efforts adapt ViTs to new tasks and address their shortcomings. - ViTs learn best from immense quantities of data, so researchers at Meta and Sorbonne University concentrated on [improving performance on datasets of (merely) millions of examples](https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/a-formula-for-training-vision-transformers/). They boosted performance using transformer-specific adaptations of established procedures such as data augmentation and model regularization. - Researchers at Inha University modified two key components to make ViTs [more like convolutional neural networks](https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/less-data-for-vision-transformers/). First, they divided images into patches with more overlap. Second, they modified self-attention to focus on a patch's neighbors rather than on the patch itself, and enabled it to learn whether to weigh neighboring patches more evenly or more selectively. These modifications brought a significant boost in accuracy. - Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay [outfitted ViTs with convolutional layers](https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/upgrade-for-vision-transformers/). Convolution brings benefits like local processing of pixels and smaller memory footprints due to weight sharing. With respect to accuracy and speed, their convolutional ViT outperformed the usual version as well as runtime optimizations of transformers such as Performer, Nyströformer, and Linear Transformer. Other teams took [similar](https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.09792?utm_campaign=The%20Batch&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8HbXG-ZkwAj82Nv49uUrBwOHz4zUj3mkyjIfEd5lU7h3JHZR0pEG5OpkUCPPqwWvqMbjWl) [approaches](https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06709?utm_campaign=The%20Batch&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8HbXG-ZkwAj82Nv49uUrBwOHz4zUj3mkyjIfEd5lU7h3JHZR0pEG5OpkUCPPqwWvqMbjWl). - more from fchollet: https://keras.io/examples/vision/probing_vits/ - CLIP (_Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training_) https://openai.com/blog/clip/ - https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/posts/clip-art/ - jan 2021 - On January 5th 2021, OpenAI released the model-weights and code for [CLIP](https://openai.com/blog/clip/): a model trained to determine which caption from a set of captions best fits with a given image. - The Big Sleep: a CLIP based text-to-image technique ([source](https://twitter.com/advadnoun/status/1351038053033406468)) - may 2021: [the unreal engine trick](https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/posts/clip-art/#the-joys-of-prompt-programming-the-unreal-engine-trick) - CLIPSeg https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/clipseg (for Image segmentation) - Queryable - CLIP on iphone photos https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34686947 - on website https://paulw.tokyo/post/real-time-semantic-search-demo/ - beating CLIP # with 100x less data and compute https://www.unum.cloud/blog/2023-02-20-efficient-multimodality - https://www.kdnuggets.com/2021/03/beginners-guide-clip-model.html - Stable Diffusion - https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-v2-release - _New Text-to-Image Diffusion Models_ - _Super-resolution Upscaler Diffusion Models_ - _Depth-to-Image Diffusion Model_ - _Updated Inpainting Diffusion Model_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33726816 - Seems the structure of UNet hasn't changed other than the text encoder input (768 to 1024). The biggest change is on the text encoder, switched from ViT-L14 to ViT-H14 and fine-tuned based on [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.01903.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.01903.pdf). - the dataset it's trained on is ~240TB (5 billion pairs of text to 512x512 image.) and Stability has over ~4000 Nvidia A100 - Runway vs Stable Diffusion drama https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2022/12/05/runway-ml-series-c-funding-500-million-valuation/ - https://stability.ai/blog/stablediffusion2-1-release7-dec-2022 - Better people and less restrictions than v2.0 - Nonstandard resolutions - Dreamstudio with negative prompts and weights - https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zf21db/stable_diffusion_21_announcement/ - Stability 2022 recap https://twitter.com/StableDiffusion/status/1608661612776550401 - https://stablediffusionlitigation.com - SDXL https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/26/stability-ai-releases-its-latest-image-generating-model-stable-diffusion-xl-1-0/ - - [Doodly](https://twitter.com/RisingSayak/status/1700163109363859720) - scribble and generate art from it using language guidance using SDXL and T2I adapters - important papers - 2019 Razavi, Oord, Vinyals, [Generating Diverse High-Fidelity Images with VQ-VAE-2](https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00446) - 2020 Esser, Rombach, Ommer, [Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis](https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09841) - ([summary](https://twitter.com/sedielem/status/1339929984836788228)) To synthesise realistic megapixel images, learn a high-level discrete representation with a conditional GAN, then train a transformer on top. Likelihood-based models like transformers do better at capturing diversity compared to GANs, but tend to get lost in the details. Likelihood is mode-covering; not mode-seeking, like adversarial losses are. By measuring the likelihood in a space where texture details have been abstracted away, the transformer is forced to capture larger-scale structure, and we get great compositions as a result. Replacing the VQ-VAE with a VQ-GAN enables more aggressive downsampling. - 2021 Dhariwal & Nichol, [Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis](https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05233) - 2021 Nichol et al, [GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10741) ## SD vs DallE vs MJ July 2023: compare models: https://zoo.replicate.dev/ June 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36407272 DallE banned so SD https://twitter.com/almost_digital/status/1556216820788609025?s=20&t=GCU5prherJvKebRrv9urdw [![https://i.redd.it/fqgv82ihav9a1.png](https://i.redd.it/fqgv82ihav9a1.png)](https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/102eov5/who_did_it_better_dalle_2_midjourney_and_stable/?s=8) but keep in mind that Dalle2 [doesnt respond well](https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/waax7p/realistic_and_photorealistic_keywords_give/) to "photorealistic" another comparison https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zevuw2/a_simple_comparison_between_sd_15_20_21_and/ comparisons with other models https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zlvrl6/i_tried_various_models_with_the_same_settings/ Lexica Aperture - finetuned version of SD https://lexica.art/aperture - fast - focused on photorealistic portraits and landscapes - negative prompting - dimensions ## midjourney - midjourney company is 10 people and 40 moderators https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/30/midjourney-ai-image-generation-rules/ - [Advanced guide to writing prompts for MidJourney](https://medium.com/mlearning-ai/an-advanced-guide-to-writing-prompts-for-midjourney-text-to-image-aa12a1e33b6)  - [Aspect ratio prompts](https://graphicsgurl.com/midjourney-aspect-ratio/#:~:text=MidJourney's%20default%20size%20is%20square,ratios%20%E2%80%93%20this%20is%20the%20original) ### Midjourney v5 - [rave at Hogwarts summer 1998](https://twitter.com/spacecasetay/status/1638212304683532288) - midjourney prompting with gpt4 https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1638679555107094528 - fashion liv boeree prompt https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1639076580419928068 - extremely photorealistic, lots of interesting examples https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1639688267695112194 nice trick to mix images https://twitter.com/javilopen/status/1613107083959738369 "midjourney style" - just feed "prompt" to it https://twitter.com/rainisto/status/1606221760189317122 or emojis: https://twitter.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1616841985599365120 ### DallE 3 - dallery gallery + prompt book https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32322329 DallE vs Imagen vs Parti architecture - https://twitter.com/savvyRL/status/1540555792331378688 DallE 3 writeup and links https://www.latent.space/p/sep-2023 DallE 3 paper and system card https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1715075287262597236 ### Runway Gen-1/2 usage example https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1639709828603084801?s=20 Gen1 explainer https://twitter.com/c_valenzuelab/status/1652282840971722754?s=20 ## other text to image models - Google Imagen and MUSE - LAION Paella https://laion.ai/blog/paella/ - Drag Your GAN https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10973 - draggan demo https://twitter.com/dreamingtulpa/status/1676501984310853632 https://huggingface.co/spaces/DragGan/DragGan https://twitter.com/radamar/status/1677924592915206144 ## Tooling - Prompt Generators: - https://huggingface.co/succinctly/text2image-prompt-generator - This is a GPT-2 model fine-tuned on the succinctly/midjourney-prompts dataset, which contains 250k text prompts that users issued to the Midjourney text-to-image service over a month period. This prompt generator can be used to auto-complete prompts for any text-to-image model (including the DALL·E family) - Prompt Parrot https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1GtyVgVCwnDfRvfsHbeU0AlG-SgQn1p8e?usp=sharing - This notebook is designed to train language model on a list of your prompts,generate prompts in your style, and synthesize wonderful surreal images! ✨ - https://twitter.com/KyrickYoung/status/1563962142633648129 - https://github.com/kyrick/cog-prompt-parrot - https://twitter.com/stuhlmueller/status/1575187860063285248 - The Interactive Composition Explorer (ICE), a Python library for writing and debugging compositional language model programs https://github.com/oughtinc/ice - The Factored Cognition Primer, a tutorial that shows using examples how to write such programs https://primer.ought.org - Prompt Explorer - https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1575088140234428416 - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oi0fwTNuJu5EYM2DIndyk0KeAY8tL6-Qd1BozFb9Zls/edit#gid=1567267935 - Prompt generator https://www.aiprompt.io/ - Stable Diffusion Interpolation - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1EHZtFjQoRr-bns1It5mTcOVyZzZD9bBc?usp=sharing - This notebook generates neat interpolations between two different prompts with Stable Diffusion. - Easy Diffusion by WASasquatch - This super nifty notebook has tons of features, such as image upscaling and processing, interrogation with CLIP, and more! (depth output for 3D Facebook images, or post processing such as Depth of Field.) - https://colab.research.google.com/github/WASasquatch/easydiffusion/blob/main/Stability_AI_Easy_Diffusion.ipynb - Craiyon + Stable Diffusion https://twitter.com/GeeveGeorge/status/1567130529392373761 - Breadboard: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/102ca1u/breadboard_a_stablediffusion_browser_version_010/ -  a browser for effortlessly searching and managing all your Stablediffusion generated files. 1. Full fledged browser UI: You can literally “surf” your local Stablediffusion generated files, home, back, forward buttons, search bar, and even bookmarks. 2. Tagging: You can organize your files into tags, making it easy to filter them. Tags can be used to filter files in addition to prompt text searches. 3. Bookmarking: You can now bookmark files. And you can bookmark search queries and tags. The UX is very similar to ordinary web browsers, where you simply click a star or a heart to favorite items. 4. Realtime Notification: Get realtime notifications on all the Stablediffusion generated files. - comparison playgrounds https://zoo.replicate.dev/?id=a-still-life-of-birds-analytical-art-by-ludwig-knaus-wfsbarr Misc - [prompt-engine](https://github.com/microsoft/prompt-engine): From Microsoft, NPM utility library for creating and maintaining prompts for LLMs - [Edsynth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eghGQtQhY38) and [DAIN](https://twitter.com/karenxcheng/status/1564635828436885504) for coherence - [FILM: Frame Interpolation for Large Motion](https://film-net.github.io/) ([github](https://github.com/google-research/frame-interpolation)) - [Depth Mapping](https://github.com/compphoto/BoostingMonocularDepth) - examples: https://twitter.com/TomLikesRobots/status/1566152352117161990 - Art program plugins - Krita: https://github.com/nousr/koi - GIMP https://80.lv/articles/a-new-stable-diffusion-plug-in-for-gimp-krita/ - Photoshop: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wyduk1/show_rstablediffusion_integrating_sd_in_photoshop/ - https://github.com/isekaidev/stable.art - https://www.flyingdog.de/sd/ - download: https://twitter.com/cantrell/status/1574432458501677058 - https://www.getalpaca.io/ - demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_4Y6SUs1cI and https://twitter.com/cantrell/status/1582086537163919360 - tutorial https://odysee.com/@MaxChromaColor:2/how-to-install-the-free-stable-diffusion:1 - Photoshop with A1111 https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zrdk60/great_news_automatic1111_photoshop_stable/ - Figma: https://twitter.com/RemitNotPaucity/status/1562319004563173376?s=20&t=fPSI5JhLzkuZLFB7fntzoA - collage tool https://twitter.com/genekogan/status/1555184488606564353 - Papers - 2015: [Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.03585.pdf) founding paper of diffusion models - Textual Inversion: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01618 (impl: https://github.com/rinongal/textual_inversion) - Stable Conceptualizer https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/diffusers/stable_conceptualizer_inference.ipynb - 2017: Attention is all you need - https://dreambooth.github.io/ - productized as dreambooth https://twitter.com/psuraj28/status/1575123562435956740 - https://github.com/JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion ([examples](https://twitter.com/rainisto/status/1584881850933456898)) - from huggingface diffusers https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/diffusers/sd_dreambooth_training.ipynb - https://twitter.com/rainisto/status/1584881850933456898 - Commercial offerings - https://avatarai.me/ - https://www.astria.ai/ (formerly https://www.strmr.com/) - https://twitter.com/rohanarora_/status/1580413809516511232?s=20&t=XxjfadtkVM8TOvg5EYFCrw - now you need LORA https://github.com/cloneofsimo/lora - [very good BLOOM model overview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EjtHs_lXnk) ## Products - Lexica (search + gen) - Pixelvibe (search + gen) https://twitter.com/lishali88/status/1595029444988649472 product placement - Pebbley - inpainting https://twitter.com/alfred_lua/status/1610641101265981440 - Flair AI https://twitter.com/mickeyxfriedman/status/1613251965634465792 - scale AI forge https://twitter.com/alexandr_wang/status/1614998087176720386 ## Stable Diffusion prompts The basic intuition of Stable Diffusion is that you have to add descriptors to get what you want. From [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33086085):
"George Washington riding a Unicorn in Times Square" ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6764957/194002068-bf0345a6-1826-4a41-8c39-47fee653e207.png)
George Washington riding a unicorn in Times Square, cinematic composition, concept art, digital illustration, detailed ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6764957/194002170-748bfe81-8e60-4b32-8a43-162f470b9d9f.png)
Prompts might go in the form of ``` [Prefix] [Subject], [Enhancers] ``` Adding the right enhancers can really tweak the outcome: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6764957/188303877-4555e026-4da5-4f22-b7f5-2972425350ba.png) ### SD v2 prompts SD2 Prompt Book from Stability: https://stability.ai/sdv2-prompt-book ### SD 1.4 vs 1.5 comparisons - https://twitter.com/TomLikesRobots/status/1583836870445670401 - https://twitter.com/multimodalart/status/1583404683204648960 ### Distilled Stable Diffusion - https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1598131202044866560 20x speed up, convergence in 1-4 steps - https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03142 - "We already reduced time to gen 50 steps from 5.6s to 0.9s working with nvidia" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03142 - For diffusion models trained on the latent-space (e.g., Stable Diffusion), our approach is able to generate high-fidelity images using as few as 1 to 4 denoising steps, accelerating inference by at least 10-fold compared to existing methods on ImageNet 256x256 and LAION datasets. We further demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on text-guided image editing and inpainting, where our distilled model is able to generate high-quality results using as few as 2-4 denoising steps. - Stable diffusion speed progress https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-logan-bartlett/ep-46-stability-ai-ceo-emad-8PQIYcR3r2i/ - Aug 2022 - 5.6s/image - Dec 2022 - 0.9s/image - Jan 2022 - 30 images/s (100x speed increase) ## SD2 vs SD1 user notes - Comparisons - https://twitter.com/dannypostmaa/status/1595612366770954242?s=46 - https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/z3ferx/xy_plot_comparisons_of_sd_v15_ema_vs_sd_20_x768/ - compare it yourself https://app.gooey.ai/CompareText2Img/?example_id=1uONp1IBt0Y - depth2img produces more coherence for animations https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zk32dg/a_quick_demo_to_show_how_structurally_coherent/ - https://replicate.com/lucataco/animate-diff - July 2023: "[nobody uses v2 for people generation](https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1680699101719982081?s=20)" - https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1595731398450634755 - V2 prompts different and will take a while for folk to get used to. V2 is trained on two models, a generator model and a image-to-text model (CLIP). - We supported @laion_ai in their creation of an OpenCLIP Vit-H14 https://twitter.com/wightmanr/status/1570503598538379264 - We released two variants of the 512 model which I would recommend folk dig into, especially the -v model.. More on these soon. The 768 model I think will improve further from here as the first of its type, we will have far more regular updates, releases and variants from here - Elsewhere I would highly recommend folk dig into the depth2img model, fun things coming there. 3D maps will improve, particularly as we go onto 3D models and some other fun stuff to be announced in the new year. These models are best not zero-shot, but as part of a process - Stable Diffusion 2.X was trained on LAION-5B as opposed to "laion-improved-aesthetics" (a subset of laion2B-en). for Stable Diffusion 1.X. ## Hardware requirements - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32642255#32646761 - For something like this, you ideally would want a powerful GPU with 12-24gb VRAM. - A $500 RTX 3070 with 8GB of VRAM can generate 512x512 images with 50 steps in 7 seconds. - https://huggingface.co/blog/stable_diffusion_jax uper fast inference on Google TPUs, such as those available in Colab, Kaggle or Google Cloud Platform - 8 images in 8 seconds - Intel CPUs: https://github.com/bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino - aws ec2 guide https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/an-elastic-deployment-of-stable-diffusion-with-discord-on-aws/ ## Stable Diffusion stable diffusion specific notes Required reading: - param intuition https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/x41n87/how_to_get_images_that_dont_suck_a/ - CLI commands https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/how-to-run-stable-diffusion-locally-to-generate-images/#script-options ### SD Distros - **Installer Distros**: Programs that bundle Stable Diffusion in an installable program, no separate setup and the least amount of git/technical skill needed, usually bundling one or more UI - iPad: [Draw Things App](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6444050820) - [Diffusion Bee](https://github.com/divamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-ui) (open source): Diffusion Bee is the easiest way to run Stable Diffusion locally on your M1 Mac. Comes with a one-click installer. No dependencies or technical knowledge needed. - https://noiselith.com/ easy stable diffusion XL offline - https://github.com/cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui: Easiest 1-click way to install and use Stable Diffusion on your own computer. Provides a browser UI for generating images from text prompts and images. Just enter your text prompt, and see the generated image. (Linux, Windows, no Mac). - https://nmkd.itch.io/t2i-gui: A basic (for now) Windows 10/11 64-bit GUI to run Stable Diffusion, a machine learning toolkit to generate images from text, locally on your own hardware. As of right now, this program only works on Nvidia GPUs! AMD GPUs are not supported. In the future this might change. - [imaginAIry 🤖🧠](https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry) (SUPPORTS SD 2.0!): Pythonic generation of stable diffusion images with just `pip install imaginairy`. "just works" on Linux and macOS(M1) (and maybe windows). Memory efficiency improvements, prompt-based editing, face enhancement, upscaling, tiled images, img2img, prompt matrices, prompt variables, BLIP image captions, comes with dockerfile/colab. Has unit tests. - Note: it goes a lot faster if you run it all inside the included aimg CLI, since then it doesn't have to reload the model from disk every time - [Fictiverse/Windows-GUI](https://github.com/Fictiverse/StableDiffusion-Windows-GUI): A windows interface for stable diffusion - SD from Apple Core ML https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/stable-diffusion-coreml-apple-silicon https://github.com/apple/ml-stable-diffusion - [Gauss macOS native app](https://github.com/justjake/Gauss) (open source) - https://sindresorhus.com/amazing-ai SindreSorhus exclusive for M1/M2 - https://www.charl-e.com/ (open source): Stable Diffusion on your Mac in 1 click. ([tweet](https://twitter.com/charliebholtz/status/1571138577744138240)) - https://github.com/razzorblade/stable-diffusion-gui: dormant now. - **Web Distros** - [web stable diffusion](https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-stable-diffusion) - running in browser - Gooey - https://app.gooey.ai/CompareText2Img/?example_id=1uONp1IBt0Y - https://playgroundai.com/create UI for DallE and Stable Diffusion - https://www.phantasmagoria.me/ - https://www.mage.space/ - https://inpainter.vercel.app - https://dreamlike.art/ has img2img - https://inpainter.vercel.app/paint for inpainting - https://promptart.labml.ai/feed - https://www.strmr.com/ dreambooth tuning for $3 - https://www.findanything.app browser extension that adds SD predictions alongside Google search - https://www.drawanything.app - https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface-projects/diffuse-the-rest draw a thing, diffuse the rest! - https://creator.nolibox.com/guest open source https://github.com/carefree0910/carefree-creator - An **infinite draw board** for you to save, review and edit all your creations. - Almost EVERY feature about Stable Diffusion (txt2img, img2img, sketch2img, **variations**, outpainting, circular/tiling textures, sharing, ...). - Many useful image editing methods (**super resolution**, inpainting, ...). - Integrations of different Stable Diffusion versions (waifu diffusion, ...). - GPU RAM optimizations, which makes it possible to enjoy these features with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti - https://replicate.com/stability-ai/stable-diffusion Predictions run on Nvidia A100 GPU hardware. Predictions typically complete within 5 seconds. - https://replicate.com/cjwbw/stable-diffusion-v2 - https://deepinfra.com/ - **iPhone/iPad Distros** - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/draw-things-ai-generation/id6444050820 - another attempt that was paused https://www.cephalopod.studio/blog/on-creating-an-on-device-stable-diffusion-app-amp-deciding-not-to-release-it-adventures-in-ai-ethics - https://snap-research.github.io/SnapFusion/ SnapFusion: Text-to-Image Diffusion Model on Mobile Devices within Two Seconds - **Finetuned Distros** - [Arcane Diffusion](https://huggingface.co/spaces/anzorq/arcane-diffusion) a fine-tuned Stable Diffusion model trained on images from the TV Show Arcane. - [Spider-verse Diffusion](https://huggingface.co/nitrosocke/spider-verse-diffusion) rained on movie stills from Sony's Into the Spider-Verse. Use the tokens spiderverse style in your prompts for the effect. - [Simpsons Dreambooth](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zghkj0/new_dreambooth_model_the_simpsons/) - https://huggingface.co/ItsJayQz - Roy PopArt Diffusion 2 🐢 - GTA5 Artwork Diffusion 😻 - Firewatch Diffusion 1 💻 - Civilizations 6 Diffusion 1 🔥 - Classic Telltale Diffusion 3 😻 - Marvel WhatIf Diffusion - [Texture inpainting](https://twitter.com/StableDiffusion/status/1580840640501649408) - How to finetune your own - Naruto version https://lambdalabs.com/blog/how-to-fine-tune-stable-diffusion-naruto-character-edition - Pokemon https://lambdalabs.com/blog/how-to-fine-tune-stable-diffusion-how-we-made-the-text-to-pokemon-model-at-lambda - https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-fine-tune-stable-diffusion-using-textual-inversion-b995d7ecc095 - **Twitter Bots** - https://twitter.com/diffusionbot - https://twitter.com/m1guelpf/status/1569487042345861121 - **Windows "retard guides"** - https://rentry.org/voldy - https://rentry.org/GUItard ### SD Major forks and UIs Main Stable Diffusion repo: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion - Tensorflow/Keras impl: https://github.com/divamgupta/stable-diffusion-tensorflow - Diffusers library: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers ([Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/diffusers/stable_diffusion.ipynb)) OpenJourney: [https://happyaccidents.ai/](https://happyaccidents.ai/), https://www.bluewillow.ai/ - launched by prompthero: https://twitter.com/prompthero/status/1593682465486413826 an embedded version of SD named Tiny Dream: [https://github.com/symisc/tiny-dream](https://github.com/symisc/tiny-dream) which let you generate high definition output images (2048x2048) in less than 10 seconds, and consumes less than 5GB per inference unlike this one which takes 11 hours to generate a 512x512 pixels output despite being memory efficient. | Name/Link | Stars | Description | |--- |--- |--- | | [AUTOMATIC1111](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui) | 116000 | The most well known Web UI, gradio based. features: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui#features launch announcement https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/x28a76/stable_diffusion_web_ui/. M1 mac instructions https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki/Installation-on-Apple-Silicon | | [Fooocus](https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus) | 33000 | Fooocus is a rethinking of Stable Diffusion and Midjourney’s designs: Learned from Stable Diffusion, the software is offline, open source, and free. Learned from Midjourney, the manual tweaking is not needed, and users only need to focus on the prompts and images. | | [ComfyUI](https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI) | 29000 | The up and comer GUI. features - flowchart https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI#features See https://comfyworkflows.com/ for hosted site | | [easydiffusion](https://github.com/easydiffusion/easydiffusion) | 8500 | "[Easy Diffusion is easily my favorite UI](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36440462)". While it has a fraction of the features found in stable-diffusion-webui, it has the best out of the box UI I've tried so far.The way it enqueues tasks and renders the generated images beats anything I've seen in the various UIs I've played with. I also like that you can easily write plugins in Javascript, both for the UI and for server-side tweaks. | | [Disco Diffusion](https://github.com/alembics/disco-diffusion) | 7400 | A frankensteinian amalgamation of notebooks, models and techniques for the generation of AI Art and Animations. | | [sd-webui](https://github.com/sd-webui/stable-diffusion-webui) (formerly hlky fork) | 6000 | A fully-integrated and easy way to work with Stable Diffusion right from a browser window. Long list of UI and SD features (incl textual inversion, alternative samplers, prompt matrix): https://github.com/sd-webui/stable-diffusion-webui#project-features | | [InvokeAI](https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI) (formerly lstein fork) | 8800 | This version of Stable Diffusion features a slick WebGUI, an interactive command-line script that combines text2img and img2img functionality in a "dream bot" style interface, and multiple features and other enhancements. It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux machines, with GPU cards with as little as 4 GB of RAM. Universal Canvas (see [youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIYBfDtKaus&lc=UgydbodXO5Y9w4mnQHN4AaABAg.9j4ORX-gv-w9j78Muvp--w)) | | [XavierXiao/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion](https://github.com/XavierXiao/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion) | 4900 | Implementation of Dreambooth (https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12242) with Stable Diffusion. Dockerized: https://github.com/smy20011/dreambooth-docker | | [Basujindal: Optimized Stable Diffusion](https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion) | 2600 | This repo is a modified version of the Stable Diffusion repo, optimized to use less VRAM than the original by sacrificing inference speed. img2img and txt2img and inpainting under 2.4GB VRAM | | [stablediffusion-infinity](https://github.com/lkwq007/stablediffusion-infinity) | 2800 | Outpainting with Stable Diffusion on an infinite canvas. This project mainly works as a proof of concept. | | [Waifu Diffusion](https://github.com/harubaru/waifu-diffusion) ([huggingface](https://huggingface.co/hakurei/waifu-diffusion), [replicate](https://replicate.com/cjwbw/waifu-diffusion)) | 1600 | stable diffusion finetuned on weeb stuff. "A model trained on danbooru (anime/manga drawing site with also lewds and nsfw on it) over 56k images.Produces FAR BETTER results if you're interested in getting manga and anime stuff out of stable diffusion." | | [AbdBarho/stable-diffusion-webui-docker](https://github.com/AbdBarho/stable-diffusion-webui-docker) | 1600 | Easy Docker setup for Stable Diffusion with both Automatic1111 and hlky UI included. HOWEVER - no mac support yet https://github.com/AbdBarho/stable-diffusion-webui-docker/issues/35 | | [fast-stable-diffusion](https://github.com/TheLastBen/fast-stable-diffusion) | 3200 | +25-50% speed increase + memory efficient + DreamBooth | | [nolibox/carefree-creator](https://github.com/carefree0910/carefree-creator) | 1800 | An infinite draw board for you to save, review and edit all your creations. Almost EVERY feature about Stable Diffusion (txt2img, img2img, sketch2img, variations, outpainting, circular/tiling textures, sharing, ...). Many useful image editing methods (super resolution, inpainting, ...). Integrations of different Stable Diffusion versions (waifu diffusion, ...). GPU RAM optimizations, which makes it possible to enjoy these features with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti! It might be fair to consider this as: An AI-powered, open source Figma. A more 'interactable' Hugging Face Space. A place where you can try all the exciting and cutting-edge models, together. | | [imaginAIry 🤖🧠](https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry) | 1600 | Pythonic generation of stable diffusion images with just `pip install imaginairy`. "just works" on Linux and macOS(M1) (and maybe windows). Memory efficiency improvements, prompt-based editing, face enhancement, upscaling, tiled images, img2img, prompt matrices, prompt variables, BLIP image captions, comes with dockerfile/colab. Has unit tests. | | [neonsecret/stable-diffusion](https://github.com/neonsecret/stable-diffusion) | 582 | This repo is a modified version of the Stable Diffusion repo, optimized to use less VRAM than the original by sacrificing inference speed. Also I invented the sliced atttention technique, which allows to push the model's abilities even further. It works by automatically determining the slice size from your vram and image size and then allocating it one by one accordingly. You can practically generate any image size, it just depends on the generation speed you are willing to sacrifice. | | [Deforum Stable Diffusion](https://github.com/deforum/stable-diffusion) | 591 | Animating prompts with stable diffusion. Weighted Prompts, Perspective 2D Flipping, Dynamic Video Masking, Custom MATH expressions, Waifu and Robo Diffusion Models. [twitter, changelog](https://twitter.com/deforum_art/status/1576330236194525184?s=20&t=36133FXROv0CMGHOoSxHyg). replicate demo: https://replicate.com/deforum/deforum_stable_diffusion | | [Maple Diffusion](https://github.com/madebyollin/maple-diffusion) | 550 | Maple Diffusion runs Stable Diffusion models locally on macOS / iOS devices, in Swift, using the MPSGraph framework (not Python). [Matt Waller working on CoreML impl](https://twitter.com/divamgupta/status/1583482195192459264) | | [Doggettx/stable-diffusion](https://github.com/Doggettx/stable-diffusion) | 158 | Allows to use resolutions that require up to 64x more VRAM than possible on the default CompVis build. | | [Doohickey Diffusion](https://twitter.com/StableDiffusion/status/1580840624206798848) | 29 | CLIP guidance, perceptual guidance, Perlin initial noise, and other features. | https://github.com/Filarius/stable-diffusion-webui/blob/master/scripts/vid2vid.py with Vid2Vid akuma.ai https://x.com/AkumaAI_JP/status/1734899981583348067?s=20 Future Diffusion https://huggingface.co/nitrosocke/Future-Diffusion https://twitter.com/Nitrosocke/status/1599789199766716418 #### SD in Other languages - Chinese: https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1572580845785083906 - Japanese: https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1571977273489739781 - https://huggingface.co/blog/japanese-stable-diffusion - DALL-E's inherent multilingualness https://twitter.com/Merzmensch/status/1551179292704399360 (we dont know the CLIP Vit-H embeddings details) #### Other Lists of Forks - https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wqaizj/list_of_stable_diffusion_systems/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/xcclmf/comment/io6u03s/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 - https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#CompVis/stable-diffusion SD Model search and ratings: https://civitai.com/ Dormant projects, for historical/research interest: - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1AfAmwLMd_Vx33O9IwY2TmO9wKZ8ABRRa - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1kw3egmSn-KgWsikYvOMjJkVDsPLjEMzl - [bfirsh/stable-diffusion](https://github.com/bfirsh/stable-diffusion) No longer actively maintained byt was the first to work on M1 Macs - [blog](https://replicate.com/blog/run-stable-diffusion-on-m1-mac), [tweet](https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1565731907664478209), can also look at `environment-mac.yaml` from https://github.com/fragmede/stable-diffusion/blob/mps_consistent_seed/environment-mac.yaml #### Misc SD UI's UI's that dont come with their own SD distro, just shelling out to one | UI Name/Link | Stars | Self-Description | |--- |--- |--- | | [ahrm/UnstableFusion](https://github.com/ahrm/UnstableFusion) | 815 | UnstableFusion is a desktop frontend for Stable Diffusion which combines image generation, inpainting, img2img and other image editing operation into a seamless workflow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLOhizAnSfQ&t=1s | | [stable-diffusion-2-gui](https://github.com/qunash/stable-diffusion-2-gui/) | 262 | Lightweight Stable Diffusion v 2.1 web UI: txt2img, img2img, depth2img, inpaint and upscale4x. | | [breadthe/sd-buddy](https://github.com/breadthe/sd-buddy/) | 165 | Companion desktop app for the self-hosted M1 Mac version of Stable Diffusion, with Svelte and Tauri | | [leszekhanusz/diffusion-ui](https://github.com/leszekhanusz/diffusion-ui) | 65 | This is a web interface frontend for the generation of images using diffusion models.

The goal is to provide an interface to online and offline backends doing image generation and inpainting like Stable Diffusion. | | [GenerationQ](https://github.com/westoncb/generation-q) | 21 | GenerationQ (for "image generation queue") is a cross-platform desktop application (screens below) designed to provide a general purpose GUI for generating images via text2img and img2img models. Its primary target is Stable Diffusion but since there is such a variety of forked programs with their own particularities, the UI for configuring image generation tasks is designed to be generic enough to accommodate just about any script (even non-SD models). | ### SD Prompt galleries and search engines - 🌟 [Lexica](https://lexica.art/): Content-based search powered by OpenAI's CLIP model. **Seed**, CFG, Dimensions. - [PromptFlow](https://promptflow.co): Search engine that allows for on-demand generation of new results. Search 10M+ of AI art and prompts generated by DALL·E 2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion - https://synesthetic.ai/ SD focused - https://visualise.ai/ Create and share image prompts. DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion - https://nyx.gallery/ - [OpenArt](https://openart.ai/discovery?dataSource=sd): Content-based search powered by OpenAI's CLIP model. Favorites. - [PromptHero](https://prompthero.com/): [Random wall](https://prompthero.com/random). **Seed**, CFG, Dimensions, Steps. Favorites. - [Libraire](https://libraire.ai/): **Seed**, CFG, Dimensions, Steps. - [Krea](https://www.krea.ai/): modifiers focused UI. Favorites. Gives prompt suggestions and allows to create prompts over Stable diffusion, Waifu Diffusion and Disco diffusion. Really quick and useful - browse https://atlas.nomic.ai/map/809ef16a-5b2d-4291-b772-a913f4c8ee61/9ed7d171-650b-4526-85bf-3592ee51ea31 - [Avyn](http://avyn.com/): Search engine and generator. - [Pinegraph](https://pinegraph.com/): [discover](https://pinegraph.com/discover), [create](https://pinegraph.com/create) and edit with Stable/Disco/Waifu diffusion models. - [Phraser](https://phraser.tech/compare): text and image search. - https://arthub.ai/ - https://pagebrain.ai/promptsearch/ - https://avyn.com/ - https://dallery.gallery/ - [The Ai Art:](https://www.the-ai-art.com/modifiers) **gallery** for modifiers. - [urania.ai](https://www.urania.ai/top-sd-artists): Top 500 Artists **gallery**, sorted by [image count](https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/artists?_sort_desc=image_counts). With modifiers/styles. - [Generrated](https://generrated.com/): DALL•E 2 table **gallery** sorted by [visual arts media](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Visual_arts_media). - [Artist Studies by @remi_durant](https://remidurant.com/artists/): **gallery** and Search. - [CLIP Ranked Artists](https://f000.backblazeb2.com/file/clip-artists/index.html): **gallery** sorted by weight/strength. - https://promptbase.com/ Selling prompts that produce desirable results - Prompt marketplace: [Prompt Hunt](https://www.prompthunt.com/) - https://publicprompts.art/ very basic/limited but some good prompts. promptbase competitor ### SD Visual search - [Lexica](https://lexica.art/?q=): enter an image URL in the search bar. Or next to q=. [Example](https://lexica.art/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FNyURMpx.jpeg) - [Phraser](https://phraser.tech/compare): image icon at the right. - [same.energy](https://same.energy/) - [Yandex](https://yandex.com/images/), [Bing](https://www.bing.com/images/feed), [Google](https://www.google.com/imghp), [Tineye](https://www.tineye.com/), [iqdb](https://iqdb.org/): reverse and similar image search engines. - [Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.com/search/) - [dessant/search-by-image](https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image): Open-source browser extension for reverse image search. ### SD Prompt generators - [promptoMANIA](https://promptomania.com/prompt-builder/): **Visual** modifiers. Great selection. With weight setting. - [Phase.art](https://www.phase.art/): **Visual** modifiers. SD [Generator and share](https://www.phase.art/images/cl826cjsb000509mlwqbael1i). - [Phraser](https://phraser.tech/): **Visual** modifiers. - [AI Text Prompt Generator](https://aitextpromptgenerator.com/) - [Dynamic Prompt generator](https://rexwang8.github.io/resource/ai/generator) - [succinctly/text2image](https://huggingface.co/succinctly/text2image-prompt-generator): GPT-2 Midjourney trained text completion. - [Prompt Parrot colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1GtyVgVCwnDfRvfsHbeU0AlG-SgQn1p8e?usp=sharing): Train and generate prompts. - https://github.com/kyrick/cog-prompt-parrot - [cmdr2](https://github.com/cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui): 1-click SD installation with image modifiers selection. ### Img2prompt - Reverse Prompt Engineering - [img2prompt](https://replicate.com/methexis-inc/img2prompt) Replicate by [methexis-inc](https://replicate.com/methexis-inc): Optimized for SD (clip ViT-L/14). - [CLIP Interrogator](https://colab.research.google.com/github/pharmapsychotic/clip-interrogator/blob/main/clip_interrogator.ipynb) by [@pharmapsychotic](https://twitter.com/pharmapsychotic): select ViTL14 CLIP model. - https://huggingface.co/spaces/pharma/sd-prism Sends an image in to CLIP Interrogator to generate a text prompt which is then run through Stable Diffusion to generate new forms of the original! - CLIPSeg -> image segmentation - [CLIP Artist Evaluator colab](https://colab.research.google.com/github/lowfuel/CLIP_artists/blob/main/CLIP_Evaluator.ipynb) - [BLIP](https://huggingface.co/spaces/Salesforce/BLIP) ### Explore Artists, styles, and modifiers See https://github.com/sw-yx/prompt-eng/blob/main/PROMPTS.md for more details and notes - [Artist Style Studies](https://www.notion.so/e28a4f8d97724f14a784a538b8589e7d) & [Modifier Studies](https://www.notion.so/2b07d3195d5948c6a7e5836f9d535592) by [parrot zone](https://www.notion.so/74a5c04d4feb4f12b52a41fc8750b205): **[Gallery](https://www.notion.so/e28a4f8d97724f14a784a538b8589e7d)**, [Style](https://www.notion.so/e28a4f8d97724f14a784a538b8589e7d), [Spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14xTqtuV3BuKDNhLotB_d1aFlBGnDJOY0BRXJ8-86GpA/edit#gid=0) - [Clip retrieval](https://knn5.laion.ai/): search [laion-5b](https://laion.ai/blog/laion-5b/) dataset. - [Datasette](https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls): [image search](https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/images); image-count sort by [artist](https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/artists?_sort_desc=image_counts), [celebrities](https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/celebrities?_sort_desc=image_counts), [characters](https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/characters?_sort_desc=image_counts), [domain](https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/domain?_sort_desc=image_counts) - [Visual](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Visual_arts) [arts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:The_arts): [media](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Visual_arts_media) [list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_art_media), [related](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Arts-related_lists); [Artists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Artists) [list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_artists) by [genre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Artists_by_genre), [medium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Artists_by_medium); [Portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:The_arts) ### SD Prompt Tools directories and guides - https://diffusiondb.com/ 543 Stable Diffusion systems - Useful Prompt Engineering tools and resources https://np.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/xcrm4d/useful_prompt_engineering_tools_and_resources/ - [Tools and Resources for AI Art](https://pharmapsychotic.com/tools.html) by [pharmapsychotic](https://www.reddit.com/user/pharmapsychosis) - [Akashic Records](https://github.com/Maks-s/sd-akashic#prompts-toc) - [Awesome Stable-Diffusion](https://github.com/Maks-s/sd-akashic#prompts-toc) - Install Stable Diffusion 2.1 purely through the terminal https://medium.com/@diogo.ribeiro.ferreira/how-to-install-stable-diffusion-2-0-on-your-pc-f92b9051b367 ### Finetuning/Dreambooth How to finetune - https://lambdalabs.com/blog/how-to-fine-tune-stable-diffusion-how-we-made-the-text-to-pokemon-model-at-lambda Now LORA https://github.com/cloneofsimo/lora Stable Diffusion + Midjourney - https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/z622mp/comment/ixyy2qz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Embeddings/Textual Inversion - knollingcase https://huggingface.co/ProGamerGov/knollingcase-embeddings-sd-v2-0 - https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zxkukk/detailed_guide_on_training_embeddings_on_a/ - - A model is a 2GB+ file that can do basically anything. It takes a lot of VRAM to train and has a large file size. - A hypernetwork is an 80MB+ file that sits on top of a model and can learn new things not present in the base model. It is relatively easy to train, but is typically less flexible than an embedding when using it in other models. - An embedding is a 4KB+ file (yes, 4 kilobytes, it's very small) that can be applied to any model that uses the same base model, which is typically the base stable diffusion model. It cannot learn new content, rather it creates magical keywords behind the scenes that tricks the model into creating what you want. - "hyper models" - https://twitter.com/zhansheng/status/1595456793068568581?s=46&t=Nd874xTjwniEuGu2d1toQQ - Introducing HyperTuning: Using a hypermodel to generate parameters for frozen downstream models. This allows us to adapt models to new tasks *without* back-prop! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2211.12485 - textual inversion https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zpcutz/breakdown_of_how_i_make_embeddings_for_my/ - hypernetworks https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zntxoz/invisible_hypernetwork/ Dreambooth - https://bytexd.com/how-to-use-dreambooth-to-fine-tune-stable-diffusion-colab/ - https://replicate.com/blog/dreambooth-api - https://huggingface.co/spaces/multimodalart/dreambooth-training (tech notes https://twitter.com/multimodalart/status/1598260506460311557) - https://github.com/ShivamShrirao/diffusers - produces https://twitter.com/rainisto/status/1600563803912929280 - Art project - faking entire instagram profile for a month using dreambooth https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zkvnyx/using_stablediffusion_and_dreambooth_i_faked_my/ Trained examples - Pixel art animation spritesheets - https://ps.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/yj1kbi/ive_trained_a_new_model_to_output_pixel_art/ - https://twitter.com/kylebrussell/status/1587477169474789378 - [Dreambooth 2D 3D icons](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zmomeu/creating_a_stable_diffusion_dreambooth_2d_to_3d/) (https://pixelpoint.io/blog/ms-fluent-emoji-style-fine-tune-on-stable-diffusion/) - Analog Diffusion https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zi3g5x/new_15_dreambooth_model_analog_diffusion_link_in/ and [more exampels](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zkqtqb/im_in_love_with_the_analog_diffusion_10_model/) - This is a dreambooth model trained on a diverse set of analog photographs. - comparison with other photoreal models https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/102ljfh/comment/j2tuw2p/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 - dreamlike photoreal https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/102t0av/new_photorealistic_model_dreamlike_photoreal_20/ - Protogen - https://civitai.com/models/3627/protogen-v22-official-release - https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1003bsv/protogen_v22_official_release/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/100fmx6/protogen_x34_official_release/ ### ControlNet - https://huggingface.co/spaces/hysts/ControlNet - inspirations - https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/11ku886/controlnet_unlimited_album_covers_graphic_design/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/11bp30o/tech_companies_as_charcuterie_boards_controlnet/ - controlnet qr code stable diffusion https://twitter.com/ben_ferns/status/1665907480600391682?s=20 - controlnet v1.1 space - and how to use to make logos https://twitter.com/dr_cintas/status/1670879051572035591?s=20 #### SD Tooling - AI Dreamer iOS/macOS app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ai-dreamer/id1608856807 - SD's DreamStudio https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/dream - Stable Worlds: [colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1RXRrkKUnpNiPCxTJg0Imq7sIM8ltYFz2?usp=sharing) for 3d stitched worlds via StableDiffusion https://twitter.com/NaxAlpha/status/1578685845099290624 - Hardmaru Highres Inpainting experiment - https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1608008214875967489?s=20 - https://github.com/hardmaru/image-notebook/tree/main/stable-diffusion-2 - Midjourney + SD: https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1561917541743841280 - [Nightcafe Studio](https://creator.nightcafe.studio/stable-diffusion-image-generator) - misc - words -> mask -> replacement. utomatic mask generation with CLIPSeg https://twitter.com/NielsRogge/status/1593645630412402688 ## How SD Works - Internals and Studies - How SD works - SD quickstart https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/xvhavo/made_an_easy_quickstart_guide_for_stable_diffusion/ - https://huggingface.co/blog/stable_diffusion - https://github.com/ekagra-ranjan/huggingface-blog/blob/main/stable_diffusion.md - tinygrad impl https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/blob/master/examples/stable_diffusion.py - Diffusion with offset noise https://www.crosslabs.org//blog/diffusion-with-offset-noise - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1dlgggNa5Mz8sEAGU0wFCHhGLFooW_pf1?usp=sharing - FastAI course https://www.fast.ai/posts/part2-2022-preview.html - https://twitter.com/johnowhitaker/status/1565710033463156739 - https://twitter.com/ai__pub/status/1561362542487695360 - https://twitter.com/JayAlammar/status/1572297768693006337 - https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-stable-diffusion/ - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1dlgggNa5Mz8sEAGU0wFCHhGLFooW_pf1?usp=sharing - annotated SD implementation https://twitter.com/labmlai/status/1571080112459878401 - https://nn.labml.ai/diffusion/stable_diffusion/scripts/text_to_image.html - inside https://keras.io/guides/keras_cv/generate_images_with_stable_diffusion/#wait-how-does-this-even-work - Samplers studies - https://twitter.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1564847717066559488 - [Disco Diffusion Illustrated Settings](https://www.notion.so/cd4badf06e08440c99d8a93d4cd39f51) - [Understanding MidJourney (and SD) through teapots.](https://rexwang8.github.io/resource/ai/teapot) - [A Traveler’s Guide to the Latent Space](https://www.notion.so/85efba7e5e6a40e5bd3cae980f30235f) - [Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion’s Image Generator](https://waxy.org/2022/08/exploring-12-million-of-the-images-used-to-train-stable-diffusions-image-generator/) - explore: https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/images - search: https://haveibeentrained.com/ ([tweet](https://twitter.com/matdryhurst/status/1570143343157575680)) ## SD Results ### Img2Img - A black and white photo of a young woman, studio lighting, realistic, Ilford HP5 400 - https://twitter.com/TomLikesRobots/status/1566027217892671488 ## InstructPix2Pix - https://www.timothybrooks.com/instruct-pix2pix - Pix2Pixzero - https://pix2pixzero.github.io/ - We propose pix2pix-zero, a diffusion-based image-to-image approach that allows users to specify the edit direction on-the-fly (e.g., cat to dog). Our method can directly use pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, for editing real and synthetic images while preserving the input image's structure. Our method is training-free and prompt-free, as it requires neither manual text prompting for each input image nor costly fine-tuning for each task. ## Extremely detailed prompt examples - [dark skinned Johnny Storm young male superhero of the fantastic four, full body, flaming dreadlock hair, blue uniform with the number 4 on the chest in a round logo, cinematic, high detail, no imperfections, extreme realism, high detail, extremely symmetric facial features, no distortion, clean, also evil villians fighting in the background, by Stan Lee](https://lexica.art/prompt/d622e029-176d-42b7-a437-39ccf1952b71) - [(extremely detailed CG unity 8k wallpaper), full shot body photo of a (((beautiful badass woman soldier))) with ((white hair)), ((wearing an advanced futuristic fight suit)), ((standing on a battlefield)), scorched trees and plants in background, sexy, professional majestic oil painting by Ed Blinkey, Atey Ghailan, Studio Ghibli, by Jeremy Mann, Greg Manchess, Antonio Moro, trending on ArtStation, trending on CGSociety, Intricate, High Detail, Sharp focus, dramatic, by midjourney and greg rutkowski, realism, beautiful and detailed lighting, shadows, by Jeremy Lipking, by Antonio J. Manzanedo, by Frederic Remington, by HW Hansen, by Charles Marion Russell, by William Herbert Dunton](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/100tp0v/protogenx34_has_absolutely_amazing_detail/) - [dark and gloomy full body 8k unity render, female teen cyborg, Blue yonder hair, wearing broken battle armor, at cluttered and messy shack , action shot, tattered torn shirt, porcelain cracked skin, skin pores, detailed intricate iris, very dark lighting, heavy shadows, detailed, detailed face, (vibrant, photo realistic, realistic, dramatic, dark, sharp focus, 8k)](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/102nn3s/closest_i_can_get_to_midjourney_style_no_artists/) ### Solving Hands - Negative prompts: ugly, disfigured, too many fingers, too many arms, too many legs, too many hands ## Midjourney prompts - https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1591583867835645958?s=20&t=NPVEYUcYgumQS9KNKwtuuQ ## Misc - Craiyon/Dall-E Mini - https://github.com/borisdayma/dalle-mini - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33668023a - GitHub: https://github.com/borisdayma/dalle-mini - Hugging Face Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/flax-community/dalle-mini - NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/technology/openai-images-dall-e.html - Structured Diffusion https://twitter.com/WilliamWangNLP/status/1602722552312262656 - great examples better than StableDiffusion - Imagen - https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/how-imagen-actually-works - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_f-v6prMqI - Nvidia eDiffi (unreleased) - https://deepimagination.cc/eDiff-I/ - https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F_akhaliq%2Fstatus%2F1587971650007564289&src=typed_query - Artist protests - https://vmst.io/@selzero/109512557990367884 ## /IMAGE_PROMPTS.md
Table of Contents - [prompt tooling](#prompt-tooling) - [negative prompts](#negative-prompts) - [prompt inspo](#prompt-inspo) - [Example subjects to try](#example-subjects-to-try)
stable diffusion and automatic1111 guide https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/109h9sy/i_made_a_somewhat_long_tutorial_on_automatic1111s/?s=8 June 2023 [stable diffusion guide](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36409650) - 1. Use a good checkpoint. Vanilla stable diffusion is relatively bad. There are plenty of good ones on civitai. Here's mine: [https://civitai.com/models/94176](https://civitai.com/models/94176) 2. Use a good negative prompt with good textual inversions. (e.g. "ng_deepnegative_v1_75t", "verybadimagenegative_v1.3", etc.; you can download those from civitai too) Even if you have a good checkpoint this is essential to get good results. 3. Use a better sampling method instead of the default one. (e.g. I like to use "DPM++ SDE Karras") - [using Midjourney and GPT4 to code an Angry Birds clone](https://twitter.com/javilopen/status/1719363262179938401) ## prompt tooling - MagicPrompt enhancer https://huggingface.co/spaces/Gustavosta/MagicPrompt-Stable-Diffusion - in use: https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface-projects/magic-diffusion - Prompt extender - [HF space](https://huggingface.co/spaces/daspartho/prompt-extend), [Github](https://github.com/daspartho/prompt-extend), [tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1588182331508264960) - Stable Diffusion 2 style studies - https://proximacentaurib.notion.site/28e037176b58439785ee04af6b0ae4ea - https://twitter.com/proximasan/status/1596983786792632320 - https://github.com/iuliaturc/detextify remove unwanted pseudo-text from images generated by your favorite generative AI models (Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, DALL·E). ## negative prompts - low quality, low pixel, unsharp, super bright, super dark - name, tiled, frame, border, lowres, signs, memes, labels, text, error, cropped, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, blurry - 1. ((((ugly)))), (((duplicate))), ((morbid)), ((mutilated)), [out of frame], extra fingers, mutated hands, ((poorly drawn hands)), 2. ((poorly drawn face)), (((mutation))), (((deformed))), ((ugly)), blurry, ((bad anatomy)), (((bad proportions))), 3. ((extra limbs)), cloned face, (((disfigured))). (((more than 2 nipples))). out of frame, 4. ugly, extra limbs, gross proportions, (malformed limbs), ((missing arms)), ((missing legs)), 5. (((extra arms))), (((extra legs))), mutated hands, (fused fingers), (too many fingers), (((long neck))), (cross-eyed), 6. body out of frame, , (closed eyes), (mutated), (bad body) 7. (ugly, cartoon, bad anatomy, bad art, frame, deformed, disfigured, extra limbs, text, meme, low quality, mutated, ordinary, overexposed, pixelated, poorly drawn, signature, thumbnail, too dark, too light, unattractive, useless, watermark, writing, cropped:1.1) [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zfmvfs/artists_are_back_in_sd_21/) 8. lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, text, error, missing fingers, extra digit, fewer digits, cropped, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, blurry, lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, text, error, missing fingers, extra digit, fewer digits, cropped, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, blurry, body out of frame, out of frame, poorly drawn, deformed, disproportionate, blurry, ugly, extra nipples, third nipple, asymmetrical, multiple heads, genshin, fedora, ugly face, deformed face, uncanny, blurry face, touhou, futa, dickgirl, shemale, futanari, blurred, steam ([source](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/101g8in/_/)) 9. HDR, high contrast, high saturation, saturated colors, studio lighting, headshot, black and white photo, b&w photo, monochrome, illustration, boring, disfigured, mutated, cross-eyed, blurry, head out of frame, 3D render, cartoon, anime, rendered, fake, drawing, extra fingers, mutated hands, mutation, mutilated, deformed, extra limbs, child, childlike, 3D, 3DCG, cgstation, text, watermark, logo, doll, video game character, cgsociety ([source](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/102ljfh/comment/j2wxrvg/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)) 10. nude, Asian, black and white, close up, cartoon, 3d, denim, (disfigured), (deformed), (poorly drawn), (extra limbs), blurry, boring, sketch, lackluster, signature, letters, watermark, low res , horrific , mutated , artifacts , bad art , gross , b&w , poor quality , low quality , cropped ([source](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/102nn3s/closest_i_can_get_to_midjourney_style_no_artists/)) 11. low quality, blurry, pixelated, gibberish text, random text ([source](https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1595986292055019520)) https://github.com/iuliaturc/detextify 12. Illustration by bad-artist, 3d, render, doll, plastic, blur, haze, monochrome, b&w, text, (ugly:1.2), unclear eyes, no arms, bad anatomy, cropped, censoring, asymmetric eyes, bad anatomy, bad proportions, cropped, cross-eyed, deformed, extra arms, extra fingers, extra limbs, fused fingers, jpeg artifacts, malformed, mangled hands, misshapen body, missing arms, missing fingers, missing hands, missing legs, poorly drawn, tentacle finger, too many arms, too many fingers, watermark, logo, text, letters, signature, username, words, blurry, cropped, jpeg artifacts, low quality, lowres ([source](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/10re6sw/comment/j6v5si0/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)) ## prompt inspo - https://twitter.com/nickfloats - try `(selective color red dress) (black and white)` https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zub94f/comment/j1i06qe/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 - hyper detailed photo of a beautiful (((dragon like))) a goose,intricate details,RAW candid cinema,((remarkable color)),ultra realistic https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zpjz1p/turning_swans_and_geese_into_dragons_sd21/ - analog style portrait of a man on a train, volumetric lighting, skin moles nevi, very detailed, realistic skin texture, 85mm lens, 4k, Canon 5D, ZEISS lens, high quality, sharp focus, photorealistic, photorealism, elegant, intricate details https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/102ljfh/comment/j2wxrvg/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 - face closeup, social media avatar, for a researcher named "${name}" in a professional digital art drawing style https://www.scholarstream.ai/ - Prefixes - `A black and white photo of` - `Wide angle ArchDaily photograph of` - `An image of` - `A photograph of` - `A headshot of` - `A painting of` - `A vision of` - `A depiction of` - `A cartoon of` - `A drawing of` - `A figure of` - `An illustration of` - `A sketch of` - `A portrayal of` - Enhancers - Lighting - `studio lighting` - `cinematic lighting` - Styles - serious - `detailed`/`hyperdetailed` - `oil painting` - `detailed painting` - `photographic` - `ultra photoreal` - `realistic` - `3d game` - `filmic` - `modernist`/`modernistic` - `matte`/`matte painting` - `charcoal`/`charcoal drawing` - `renaissance painting` - `volumetric lighting` - `tilt shift` - futuristic - `cyberpunk` - `synthwave` - `Solarpunk` - `Steampunk` - scary - `sinister` - `surreal` - `dystopian` - `Eldritch` - `horror` - `Angelcore` - `Aliencore` - fun - `acrylic art` - `album art` - `airbrush art` - `anime` - `abstract` - `biomorphic` - `bokeh` - `candy` - `Cottagecore` - `chalk art` - `clip art` - `cosmic` - `deviantart` - `dream` - `geometric` - `gouache` - `fantasy` - `mixed media` - `iridescent` - `photoillustration` - `pastels` - `ink drawing` - `low poly` - `pencil sketch` - `steampunk` - `quilling` - `impressionist` - `expressionist` - `oil on canvas` - `storybook illustration` - `tapestry` - `pop art` - `heavenly` - `holographic` - `mystical` - drawings - `parallax` - `stipple` - `Flickr`, `trending on Artstation`, `ZBrush central` - `Pixar` - `N64` - art movements - `academic art` - `action painting` - `art Brut` - `art deco` - `art Nouveau` - `ashcan school` - `Australian tonalism` - `baroque` - `bauhaus` - `brutalism` - `concept art` - `concrete art` - `cubism` - `cubist` - `detailed painting` - `expressionism` - `fauvism` - `film noir` - `filmic` - `fluxus` - `folk art` - `futurism` - `geometric abstract art` - `gothic art` - `graffiti` - `Harlem renaissance` - `Heidelberg school` - `hudson river school` - `hypermodernism` - `hyperrealism` - `impressionism` - `kinetic pointillism` - `lyrical abstraction` - `mannerism` - `matte painting` - `maximalism` - `maximalist` - `minimalism` - `minimalist` - `modern art` - `modern European ink painting` - `movie poster` - `naïve art` - `neo-primitivism` - `photorealism` - `pointillism` - `pop art` - `post-impressionism` - `poster art` - `pre-raphaelitism` - `precisionism` - `primitivism` - `psychedelic art` - `qajar art` - `renaissance painting` - `retrofuturism` - `romanesque` - `romanticism` - `shin hanga` - `storybook illustration` - `street art` - `surrealism` - `synthetism` - `Ukiyo-e` - `underground comix` - `vorticism` - by [artist] ([1500+ artist study here](https://proximacentaurib.notion.site/e28a4f8d97724f14a784a538b8589e7d?v=42948fd8f45c4d47a0edfc4b78937474), and [a worse/limited one here](https://gorgeous.adityashankar.xyz/)) - `Norman Rockwell` - `Gustav Klimt` - `Vincent Van Gogh`/`Van Gogh` - `Alfonse Mucha` - `James Gurney` - `Basquiat` - `Arthur Suydam` - `Thomas Kinkade` - `H.R. Giger` - `Frank Miller` - `H.P. Lovecraft` - `Jim Burns` - `Lovecraftian` - `Picasso` - `Kandinsky` - `Gustave Doré` - `Salvador Dali` - `Syd Mead` - [`Studio Ghibli`](https://lexica.art/?q=studio+ghibli+landscape) - Painters: - `in the style of Vincent van Gogh` - `in the style of Pablo Picasso` - `in the style of Andrew Warhol` - `in the style of Frida Kahlo` - `in the style of Jackson Pollock` - `in the style of Salvador Dali` - Sculptors: - `in the style of Michelangelo` - `in the style of Donatello` - `in the style of Auguste Rodin` - `in the style of Richard Serra` - `in the style of Henry Moore` - Architects: - `in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright` - `in the style of Mies van der Rohe` - `in the style of Eero Saarinen` - `in the style of Antoni Gaudi` - `in the style of Frank Gehry` - Quality - lens aperture actually really does matter https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1528155519889727488 - `Ilford HP5 400` - `IMAX` - `20 megapixels` - `8k resolution`/`8k resolution concept art` - `8k 3D` - `HDR` - `35mm film` - rendering engines: `Unreal Engine`, `CryEngine`, `VRay`, `SketchUp`, `Blender`, `CryEngine`, `Cinema 4D` - `Photoshop`, `Sketchfab` - `polaroid` Other kinds of prompts are worth trying too! - programmatic combinations to search latent space https://twitter.com/xsteenbrugge/status/1566957660200632323?s=21&t=q-puVhdTmExlbvDgNdMAqw - https://twitter.com/fofrai/status/1558553614540587017?s=21&t=RdQ-vfnKdUWZ-oZJhbc37g - made up names with places - Miguel Bashirian, Haiti - Elizabeth Tillman, USA - Meghan Lindgren, Nicaragua - Don Goldner, Dominican Republic - negative prompts (append ::-1 to get away from the prompt) https://twitter.com/supercomposite/status/1567162288087470081?s=21&t=ftHBU5iD-T9qUdS3tbTU6A - https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/xs2b2k/comment/iqj0mil/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 - https://twitter.com/_benoitmartinez/status/1566439265218838530?s=21&t=RdQ-vfnKdUWZ-oZJhbc37g - `_age_ _adjective_ _job_ _bodyType_ _genre_ from _country_, _adjective_ lighting` ### Example subjects to try - Ruins - Post apocalyptic wonderland - Desolate wasteland - Nature - Secret flower garden - Cottage in the forest - Humans - Misc - Cinematic fantasy landscape - The angel of death - Grand entrance to a Roman market - Monolith in the desert - Hooded alien creature - Whimsical Fairy Wonderland - Ruins of a medieval castle - Sunset over the bay - City on the moon - The entrance to Hell - Gas station on Mars - 1950s diner - Overgrown city covered in vines and moss - Creepy motel - Goodness gracious, great balls of fire - Psychedelic fantasy castle - Waterfall and mountains - Sunrise over the mountains - Desert ghost town - Beautiful misty mountain landscape - Mayan temple in the jungle - Cyborg bartender - Mount Olympus at dawn - Humanoid robot with a flamethrower - City skyline across the water at sunset - The Arc de Triomphe lit up at night - Gingerbread house - Desert sunrise - 1880s misty London street - Little fairy town - Tropical beach - Mountain town in the Pyrenees - Beautiful flower meadow - Abandoned mining town - [Celebrity name] - https://www.popsugar.com/celebrities - https://celebanswers.com/celebrity-list/ - [Celebrity] as [Character] ## midjourney v5 - sticker prompts https://twitter.com/followmarcos/status/1642189080984158208?s=46&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww - landscape and fruit setting prompts https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1638679555107094528 - sampler chart generates a bunch of variations easily https://twitter.com/techhalla/status/1700658718692556931 ## /INFRA.md
Table of Contents - [Infrastructure](#infrastructure) - [Optimization](#optimization) - [hardware issues](#hardware-issues) - [cost trends - wright's law](#cost-trends---wrights-law)
## model size and requirements - https://github.com/amirgholami/ai_and_memory_wall ([article](https://medium.com/riselab/ai-and-memory-wall-2cb4265cb0b8))We report the number of paramters, feature size, as well as the total FLOPs for inference/training for SOTA models in CV, Speech Learning, and NLP. - https://github.com/amirgholami/ai_and_memory_wall/blob/main/imgs/pngs/ai_and_compute.png?raw=true - https://github.com/amirgholami/ai_and_memory_wall/blob/main/imgs/pngs/hw_scaling.png?raw=true - ![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F3mlttAa4AIg4VX?format=jpg&name=large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F3mlttAa4AIg4VX?format=jpg&name=large) - analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmGKTNW8DQ - https://blog.eleuther.ai/transformer-math/ -  This is optimal in one very specific sense: in a resource regime where using 1,000 GPUs for 1 hour and 1 GPU for 1,000 hours cost you the same amount, if your goal is to maximize performance while minimizing the cost in GPU-hours to train a model you should use the above equation. - **We do not recommend training a LLM for less than 200B tokens.** Although this is “chinchilla optimal” for many models, the resulting models are typically quite poor. For almost all applications, we recommend determining what inference cost is acceptable for your usecase and training the largest model you can to stay under that inference cost for as many tokens as you can. - you can run GLM-130B on a local machine https://twitter.com/alexjc/status/1617152800571416577?s=20 - chinchilla 67b outperforms GPT3 175b - better data and longer training - LLAMA training costs - LLAMA 65B spend 1m GPU hours same as OPT/BLOOM 175B https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/17/beat-chatgpt-in-a-browser/ - instructgpt 1.3b outperforms GPT3 175b - with same performance - 2020 https://huggingface.co/calculator/ How Big Should My Language Model Be? ## There is an optimal time to stop training (and it's earlier than you think) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.00861.pdf Throughout this paper we will be studying a consistent set of decoder-only Transformer language models with parameter counts ranging from about 10M to 52B in increments of 4x, and with a fixed context window of 8192 tokens and a 2 16 token vocabulary. For language model pre-training, these models are trained for 400B tokens on a distribution consisting mostly of filtered Common Crawl data [Fou] and internet books, along with a number of smaller distributions [GBB+20], including about 10% python code data. We fix the aspect ratio of our models so that the activation dimension dmodel = 128nlayer, - Data - the 175B parameters model on 300B tokens (60% 2016 - 2019 C4 + 22% WebText2 + 16% Books + 3% Wikipedia). Where: - **https://lifearchitect.ai/chinchilla/ extremely good explanation** ![https://s10251.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022-adt-chinchilla-dataset-sizes-table.png](https://s10251.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022-adt-chinchilla-dataset-sizes-table.png) https://twitter.com/srush_nlp/status/1633509903611437058?s=46&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww xkcd style tbale with orders if magnitude as opposed to [Kaplan scaling laws](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361.pdf) (1.7x tokens, instead of 20x tokens) - the most pessimistic estimate of how much like the most capable organization could get is the 500 billion tokens. A more optimistic estimate is like 10 trillion tokens is how many tokens the most capable organization could get, like mostly English tokens. https://theinsideview.ai/ethan#limits-of-scaling-data - https://x.com/mark_cummins/status/1788949893903511705?s=46&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww - Llama 3 was trained on 15 trillion tokens (11T words). That’s large - approximately 100,000x what a human requires for language learning - https://twitter.com/BlancheMinerva/status/1644175139028840454?s=20 - In 2010 Google Books reported 129,864,880 books. According to UNESCO, there are several million books published in the US alone each year. - There are over 2,000 characters per page of text, which means that if the average book has 100 pages the total set of books in 2010 is about 100x the size of the Pile and that number grows by about one Pile per year. - Over 100 million court cases are filed in the US each year. Even if the average court case had one page this would be on the scale of the Pile. [https://iaals.du.edu/sites/default/files/documents/publications/judge_faq.pdf](https://t.co/GDLUP6mNhw) - Estimates for the number of academic papers published are around 50 million, or 30 Piles if we assume an average length of 10 pages (which I think is a substantial underestimate): - So books + academic papers + US court cases from the past 10 years is approximately 150x the size of the Pile, or enough to train a chinchilla optimal 22.5T parameter model. - https://www.semianalysis.com/p/the-ai-brick-wall-a-practical-limit ![https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1d30755f-7ece-47d4-bb91-acad82473df8_3362x2035.png](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1d30755f-7ece-47d4-bb91-acad82473df8_3362x2035.png) - [Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning? from Tim Dettmers](https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/30/which-gpu-for-deep-learning/) - [Notes on frontier model training](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TsYkDYtV6BKiCN9PAOirRAy3TrNDu2XncUZ5UZfaAKA/edit?pli=1) from Yafah Edelman - Cost Breakdown of ML Training - Why ML GPUs Cost So Much - Contra FLOPs - ML Parallelism - We (Probably) Won’t Run Out of Data - AI Energy Use and Heat Signatures - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RihYwmskuJT9Rkbjq/the-longest-training-run - [This blog makes a good argument that training runs should never be more than 15mo, because the hardware/sofware/algos advance so fast that you're better off waiting:](https://x.com/abhi_venigalla/status/1750336788282175716?s=20) ## Infrastructure - guide to GPUs https://timdettmers.com/2018/12/16/deep-learning-hardware-guide/ - dan jeffries ai infra landscape https://ai-infrastructure.org/why-we-started-the-aiia-and-what-it-means-for-the-rapid-evolution-of-the-canonical-stack-of-machine-learning/ - bananadev cold boot problem https://twitter.com/erikdunteman/status/1584992679330426880?s=20&t=eUFvLqU_v10NTu65H8QMbg - replicate.com - cerebrium.ai - banana.dev - huggingface.co - lambdalabs.com - https://cloud-gpus.com/ - Paperspace/Tensordock/Runpod? - astriaAI - oblivus GPU cloud https://oblivus.com/cloud/ - specific list of gpu costs https://fullstackdeeplearning.com/cloud-gpus/ - ![https://fullstackdeeplearning.com/cloud-gpus/dettmers_recs.png](https://fullstackdeeplearning.com/cloud-gpus/dettmers_recs.png) - H100 gpu discussions https://gpus.llm-utils.org/nvidia-h100-gpus-supply-and-demand/#how-much-do-these-gpus-cost - h100 is 11x more powerful than a100, h200 will be 18x more powerful https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/data-center/h200/ - cost of chatgpt - https://twitter.com/tomgoldsteincs/status/1600196981955100694 - A 3-billion parameter model can generate a token in about 6ms on an A100 GPU - a 175b param it should take 350ms secs for an A100 GPU to print out a single word - You would need 5 80Gb A100 GPUs just to load the model and text. ChatGPT cranks out about 15-20 words per second. If it uses A100s, that could be done on an 8-GPU server (a likely choice on Azure cloud) - On Azure cloud, each A100 card costs about $3 an hour. That's $0.0003 per word generated. - The model usually responds to my queries with ~30 words, which adds up to about 1 cent per query. - If an average user has made 10 queries per day, I think it’s reasonable to estimate that ChatGPT serves ~10M queries per day. - I estimate the cost of running ChatGPT is $100K per day, or $3M per month. - the top-performing GPT-175B model has 175 billion parameters, which total at least 320GB (counting multiples of 1024) of storage in half-precision (FP16) format, leading it to require at least five A100 GPUs with 80GB of memory each for inference. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.00774.pdf - And training itself isn’t cheap. PaLM is 540 billion parameters in size, “parameters” referring to the parts of the language model learned from the training data. A 2020 [study](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.08900.pdf) pegged the expenses for developing a text-generating model with only 1.5 billion parameters at as much as $1.6 million. And to train the open source model [Bloom](https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/12/a-year-in-the-making-bigsciences-ai-language-model-is-finally-available/), which has 176 billion parameters, it took three months using 384 Nvidia A100 GPUs; a single A100 costs thousands of dollars. https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/30/theres-now-an-open-source-alternative-to-chatgpt-but-good-luck-running-it/ - PaLM estimated to cost between 9-23M https://blog.heim.xyz/palm-training-cost/ - The final training run of PaLM required 2.56×10²⁴ (2.56e24) FLOPs. - We trained PaLM-540B on 6144 TPU v4 chips for 1200 hours and 3072 TPU v4 chips for 336 hours including some downtime and repeated steps. - VERY VERY GOOD POST FOR DOING MATH - Doing a back-of-the-envelope calculation, a 7B Llama 2 model costs about $760,000 to pretrain! https://twitter.com/rasbt/status/1747282042457374902 - The total number of GPU hours needed is 184,320 hours. - The cost of running one A100 instance per hour is approximately $33. - Each instance has 8 A100 GPUs. - That's 184320 / 8 * 33 = $760,000 - [Bloom](https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/12/a-year-in-the-making-bigsciences-ai-language-model-is-finally-available/) requires a dedicated PC with around eight A100 GPUs. Cloud alternatives are pricey, with back-of-the-envelope math [finding](https://bdtechtalks.com/2020/09/21/gpt-3-economy-business-model/) the cost of running OpenAI’s text-generating [GPT-3](https://techcrunch.com/tag/gpt-3/) — which has around 175 billion parameters — on a single Amazon Web Services instance to be around $87,000 per year. - https://bdtechtalks.com/2020/09/21/gpt-3-economy-business-model/ - Lambda Labs calculated the [computing power required to train GPT-3](https://lambdalabs.com/blog/demystifying-gpt-3/) based on projections from GPT-2. According to the estimate, training the 175-billion-parameter neural network requires 3.114E23 FLOPS (floating-point operation), which would theoretically take 355 years on a V100 GPU server with 28 TFLOPS capacity and would cost $4.6 million at $1.5 per hour. - We can’t know the exact cost of the research without more information from OpenAI, but one expert estimated it to be somewhere between 1.5 and five times the cost of training the final model. This would put the cost of research and development between $11.5 million and $27.6 million, plus the overhead of parallel GPUs. - According to the OpenAI’s whitepaper, GPT-3 uses half-precision floating-point variables at 16 bits per parameter. This means the model would require at least 350 GB of VRAM just to load the model and run inference at a decent speed. This is the equivalent of at least 11 Tesla V100 GPUs with 32 GB of memory each. At approximately $9,000 a piece, this would raise the costs of the GPU cluster to at least $99,000 plus several thousand dollars more for RAM, CPU, SSD drives, and power supply. A good baseline would be Nvidia’s [DGX-1 server](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-1/), which is specialized for deep learning training and inference. At around $130,000, DGX-1 is short on VRAM (8×16 GB), but has all the other components for a solid performance on GPT-3. - “We don’t have the numbers for GPT-3, but can use GPT-2 as a reference. A 345M-parameter GPT-2 model only needs around 1.38 GB to store its weights in FP32. But running inference with it in TensorFlow requires 4.5GB VRAM. Similarly, A 774M GPT-2 model only needs 3.09 GB to store weights, but 8.5 GB VRAM to run inference,” he said. This would possibly put GPT-3’s VRAM requirements north of 400 GB. - https://twitter.com/marksaroufim/status/1701998409924915340 - Gave a talk on why Llama 13B won't fit on my 4090 - it's an overview of all the main sources of memory overhead and how to reduce each of them Simple for those at the frontier but will help the newbs among us back of the envelope VRAM requirements fast - https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-accelerate/model-memory-usage Based on what we know, it would be safe to say the hardware costs of running GPT-3 would be between $100,000 and $150,000 without factoring in other costs (electricity, cooling, backup, etc.). Alternatively, if run in the cloud, GPT-3 would require something like Amazon’s [p3d](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p3/)n.24xlarge instance, which comes packed with 8xTesla V100 (32 GB), 768 GB RAM, and 96 CPU cores, and costs $10-30/hour depending on your plan. That would put the yearly cost of running the model at a minimum of $87,000. 7. [Efficiently Scaling Transformer Inference](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05102) 8. 2. [Transcending Scaling Laws with 0.1% Extra Compute](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11399) training is syncrhonous (centralized) and is just a matter of exaflops https://twitter.com/AliYeysides/status/1605258835974823954?s=20 nuclear fusion accelerates exaflops floating-point operations/second per $ doubles every ~2.5 years. https://epochai.org/blog/trends-in-gpu-price-performance For top GPUs at any point in time, we find a slower rate of improvement (FLOP/s per $ doubles every 2.95 years), while for models of GPU typically used in ML research, we find a faster rate of improvement (FLOP/s per $ doubles every 2.07 years). computer requirements to train gpt4 https://twitter.com/matthewjbar/status/1605328925789278209?s=46&t=fAgqJB7GXbFmnqQPe7ss6w ### human equivalent human brain math https://twitter.com/txhf/status/1613239816770191361?s=20 - Let's say the brain is in the zettaFLOP/s range. That's 10^21 FLOP/s. Training GPT-3 took 10^23 FLOPS total over 34 days. 34 days has 2937600 seconds. 10^23/10^7 is about 10^16 FLOP/s. So by this back of the envelope computation the brain has about 4 orders of magnitude more capacity, or 1000x. This makes a lot of sense, they're using a pettaFLOP/s supercomputer basically which we already knew. We'll have zettaFLOP/s supercomputers soon, yottaFLOP/s, people are worried we're going to hit some fundamental physical limits before we get there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36414780 2018 - "ai and compute" report https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KrJfoZzpSDpnrv9va/draft-report-on-ai-timelines ajeya cotra https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/AfH2oPHCApdKicM4m/two-year-update-on-my-personal-ai-timelines - reaction https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/biological-anchors-a-trick-that-might - human brain 10^13 - 10^17 FLOP/S. Why? Partly because this was the number given by most experts. But also, there are about 10^15 synapses in the brain, each one spikes about once per second, and a synaptic spike probably does about one FLOP of computation. - Cars don’t move by contracting their leg muscles and planes don’t fly by flapping their wings like birds. Telescopes *do* form images the same way as the lenses in our eyes, but differ by so many orders of magnitude in every important way that they defy comparison. Why should AI be different? You have to use some specific algorithm when you’re creating AI; why should we expect it to be anywhere near the same efficiency as the ones Nature uses in our brains? - Good news! There’s [a supercomputer in Japan]() that can do 10^17 FLOP/S! - reaction https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ax695frGJEzGxFBK4/biology-inspired-agi-timelines-the-trick-that-never-works#__2020__ - summary https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KrJfoZzpSDpnrv9va/draft-report-on-ai-timelines?commentId=7d4q79ntst6ryaxWD - human brain is doing the equivalent of 1e13 - 1e16 FLOP per second, with **a median of 1e15 FLOP per second**, and a long tail to the right. This results in a median of **1e16 FLOP per second** for the inference-time compute of a transformative model. - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IJ6Sr-gPeXdSJugFulwIpvavc0atjHGM82QjIfUSBGQ/edit - **In the case of the Lifetime Anchor hypothesis, I took the anchor distribution to be the number of total FLOP that a human brain performs in its first 1 billion seconds (i.e. up to age ~32); my median estimate is (1e15 FLOP/s) \* (1e9 seconds) = 1e24 FLOP** - **In the case of the Evolution Anchor hypothesis, I estimated the anchor distribution to be ~1e41 FLOP, by assuming about 1 billion years of evolution from the [earliest neurons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_nervous_systems) and multiplying by the average population size and average brain FLOP/s of our evolutionary ancestors** - assumed 2020 SOTA for cost was 1e17 FLOP/ $ - https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/AfH2oPHCApdKicM4m/two-year-update-on-my-personal-ai-timelines#Making_a_one_time_upward_adjustment_for__2020_FLOP**\_** - - I was using [the V100](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/v100/) as my reference machine; this was in fact the most advanced publicly available chip on the market as of 2020, but it was released in 2018 and on its way out, so it was better as an estimate for 2018 or 2019 compute than 2020 compute. The more advanced [A100](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/a100/) was 2-3x more powerful per dollar and released in late 2020 almost immediately after my report was published. - I was using the rental price of a V100 (~$1/hour), but big companies get better deals on compute than that, by about another 2-3x. - I was assuming ~⅓ utilization of FLOP/s, which was in line with what people were achieving then, but utilization seems to have improved, maybe to ~50% or so. cost - nvidia - jensen huang - 1m times more powerful AI models in 10 years - https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-predicts-ai-models-one-million-times-more-powerful-than-chatgpt-within-10-years/?fbclid=IwAR0yGM7oTzG9IZcjcTbBaABWzVFh9_uflY7kTXRGj-0uaw4ll8oeCvsx7gw - https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2020/06/11/the-cost-of-training-machines-is-becoming-a-problem - But people have been pouring more and more money into AI lately: [ ![The cost of training machines is becoming a problem | The Economist](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9496f1f-ec6c-41a2-8c2e-27f09da22097_1280x759.png "The cost of training machines is becoming a problem | The Economist") ](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9496f1f-ec6c-41a2-8c2e-27f09da22097_1280x759.png) _Source [here](https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2020/06/11/the-cost-of-training-machines-is-becoming-a-problem). This is about compute rather than cost, but most of the increase seen here has been companies willing to pay for more compute over time, rather than algorithmic or hardware progress._ ### microsoft openai cluster - https://twitter.com/AndyChenML/status/1611529311390949376 - “The supercomputer developed for OpenAI is a single system with more than 285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs and 400 gigabits per second of network connectivity for each GPU server.” training the original GPT3 - To put this in context some of the new clusters coming are over 10x more powerful, even more so when you consider scaling. Our original supercomputer from AWS last year is > 2x more poweful https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1612660862627762179?s=20 - [ @foldingathome](https://twitter.com/foldingathome)exceeded 2.4 exaFLOPS (faster than the top 500 supercomputers combined)! - https://openai.com/blog/scaling-kubernetes-to-7500-nodes/ - [aman sanger thread on understanding openai dedicated instances](https://x.com/amanrsanger/status/1728877973401711060?s=20) ### openai triton vs nvidia cuda https://twitter.com/pommedeterre33/status/1614927584030081025?s=46&t=HS-dlJsERZX6hEyAlfF5sw ## Distributed work - Petals "Swarm" network - https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent-style. Fine-tuning and inference up to 10x faster than offloading - https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI Colossal-AI provides a collection of parallel components for you. We aim to support you to write your distributed deep learning models just like how you write your model on your laptop. We provide user-friendly tools to kickstart distributed training and inference in a few lines. - Ray LLM usage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34758168 - Alpa does training and serving with 175B parameter models [https://github.com/alpa-projects/alpa](https://github.com/alpa-projects/alpa) - GPT-J [https://github.com/kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax](https://github.com/kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax) - Another HN thread on training LLMs with Ray (on TPUs in this case) [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27731168](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27731168) - OpenAI fireside chat on the evolution of their infrastructure and usage of Ray for training [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqiL5QQnN64](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqiL5QQnN64) - Cohere on their architecture for training LLMs [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=For8yLkZP5w&t=3s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=For8yLkZP5w&t=3s) - And we can make Ray more efficient by optimizing GPU hardware utilization [https://centml.ai/](https://centml.ai/) - DeepSpeed became popular soon after this post was originally published and is natively supported by many PyTorch training frameworks. [https://www.deepspeed.ai](https://www.deepspeed.ai/) ## Optimization - 30b params can beat GPT175B - 5x cheaper to hose, 2x cheaper to train https://twitter.com/calumbirdo/status/1615440420648935445 - https://howmanyparams.com/ - Scaling Laws for Generative Mixed-Modal Language Models - Aghajanyan et. al - [ @BigscienceW](https://twitter.com/BigscienceW)'s first model (T0pp) is out! Highlights: 1/16th the size of GPT-3 but outperforms GPT-3 when prompted correctly - sparseGPT https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00774 When executing SparseGPT on the largest available open-source models, OPT-175B and BLOOM-176B, we can reach 60% sparsity with negligible increase in perplexity: remarkably, more than 100 billion weights from these models can be ignored at inference time. - For single-GPU performance, there are 3 main areas your model might be bottlenecked by. Those are: 1. Compute, 2. Memory-Bandwidth, and 3. Overhead. Correspondingly, the optimizations that matter _also_ depend on which regime you're in. https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html ([tweet](https://twitter.com/cHHillee/status/1503803015941160961)) - [![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjkqgJ8VUAAN4oA?format=jpg&name=medium](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjkqgJ8VUAAN4oA?format=jpg&name=medium)](https://twitter.com/cHHillee/status/1601371646756933632?s=20) - RELATED hardware influencing pytorch design - compute-bound https://twitter.com/cHHillee/status/1601371638913638402?s=20 - bootstrapping data - "Data engine" - use GPT3 to generate 82k samples for instruction tuning - generates its own set of new tasks, outperforms original GPT3 https://twitter.com/mathemagic1an/status/1607384423942742019 - "[LLMs are Reasoning Teachers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10071)" - https://twitter.com/itsnamgyu/status/1605516353439354880?s=20 - We propose Fine-tune-CoT: fine-tune a student model with teacher-generated CoT reasoning, inspired by Zero-shot CoT - All of our experiments use public APIs from OpenAI on a moderate budget of just $50-200 per task. The code is already on GitHub - mlperf optimization and mosaicml composer https://twitter.com/davisblalock/status/1542276800218247168?s=46&t=_aRhLI2212sARkuArtTutQ - Google deep learning tuning playbook https://github.com/google-research/tuning_playbook vs eleuther https://github.com/eleutherAI/cookbook#the-cookbook ### inference https://www.artfintel.com/p/transformer-inference-tricks - KV Cache - Speculative decoding - Effective sparsity - Quantization https://www.artfintel.com/p/efficient-llm-inference on quantization https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-11-21-lookahead-decoding/ lookahead decoding https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-01-10-inference-optimization/ scaling up inference https://textsynth.com/ Fabrice Bellard's project provides access to large language or text-to-image models such as GPT-J, GPT-Neo, M2M100, CodeGen, Stable Diffusion thru a [REST API](https://textsynth.com/documentation.html#api) and a [playground](https://textsynth.com/playground.html). They can be used for example for text completion, question answering, classification, chat, translation, image generation, ... TextSynth employs [custom inference code](https://textsynth.com/technology.html) to get faster inference (hence lower costs) on standard GPUs and CPUs. https://www.databricks.com/blog/llm-inference-performance-engineering-best-practices?utm_source=ainews&utm_medium=email > How well batching works is highly dependent on the request stream. But we can get an upper bound on its performance by benchmarking static batching with uniform requests. batch sizes | Hardware | 1 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 32 | 64 | 128 | |------------|----------|---------|---------|---------|---------|-----------------|---------| | 1x A10 | 0.4 (1x) | 1.4 (3.5x) | 2.3 (6x) | 3.5 (9x) | OOM (Out of Memory) error | | | 2x A10 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | | | | 1x A100 | 0.9 (1x) | 3.2 (3.5x) | 5.3 (6x) | 8.0 (9x) | 10.5 (12x) | 12.5 (14x) | | 2x A100 | 1.3 | 3.0 | 5.5 | 9.5 | 14.5 | 17.0 | 22.0 | | 4x A100 | 1.7 | 6.2 | 11.5 | 18.0 | 25.0 | 33.0 | 36.5 | Table 2: Peak MPT-7B throughput (req/sec) with static batching and a FasterTransformers-based backend. Requests: 512 input and 64 output tokens. For larger inputs, the OOM boundary will be at smaller batch sizes. ### continuous batching - https://www.anyscale.com/blog/continuous-batching-llm-inference - Because LLMs iteratively generate their output, and because LLM inference is often memory and not compute bound, there are surprising _system-level_ batching optimizations that make 10x or more differences in real-world workloads. - One recent such proposed optimization is **continuous batching**, also known as **dynamic batching**, or batching with **iteration-level scheduling**. We wanted to see how this optimization performs. We will get into details below, including how we simulate a production workload, but to summarize our findings: - Up to 23x throughput improvement using continuous batching and continuous batching-specific memory optimizations (using [vLLM](https://twitter.com/zhuohan123/status/1671234707206590464?s=20)). - 8x throughput over naive batching by using continuous batching (both on [Ray Serve](https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/serve/index.html) and [Hugging Face’s text-generation-inference](https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference)). - 4x throughput over naive batching by using an optimized model implementation ([NVIDIA’s FasterTransformer](https://github.com/NVIDIA/FasterTransformer)). ## hardware issues - https://hardwarelottery.github.io ML will run into an asymptote because matrix multiplication and full forward/backprop passes are ridiculously expensive. What hardware improvements do we need to enable new architectures? - "bitter lessons" - http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html https://twitter.com/drjwrae/status/1601044625447301120?s=20 - response https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/m.welling/wp-content/uploads/Model-versus-Data-AI-1.pdf - optimizatoin https://cprimozic.net/blog/reverse-engineering-a-small-neural-network/ - related: https://www.wired.com/2017/04/building-ai-chip-saved-google-building-dozen-new-data-centers/ - transformers won because they were more scalable https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.11929.pdf - Apple Neural Engine Transformers https://github.com/apple/ml-ane-transformers see also asionometry youtube video ## cost trends https://www.semianalysis.com/p/the-ai-brick-wall-a-practical-limit ![https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95802dd0-c7c3-4fc0-9bef-be31971cbf85_1677x822.png](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95802dd0-c7c3-4fc0-9bef-be31971cbf85_1677x822.png) ark's wright's law - We believe the cost to train a neural net will fall 2.5x per year through 2030. AND we expect budgets to continue to balloon, doubling annually at least through 2025. Combine the two: Neural net capability should increase by ~5,000x by 2025 - https://twitter.com/wintonARK/status/1557768036169314304?s=20 - https://ark-invest.com/wrights-law - Moore’s Law – named after Gordon Moore for his work in 1965 – focuses on cost as a function of time. Specifically, it states that the number of transistors on a chip would double every two years. Wright’s Law on the other hand forecasts cost as a function of units produced. - OpenAI scaling on compute https://openai.com/blog/ai-and-compute/ - Before 2012: It was uncommon to use GPUs for ML, making any of the results in the graph difficult to achieve. - 2012 to 2014: Infrastructure to train on many GPUs was uncommon, so most results used 1-8 GPUs rated at 1-2 TFLOPS for a total of 0.001-0.1 pfs-days. - 2014 to 2016: Large-scale results used 10-100 GPUs rated at 5-10 TFLOPS, resulting in 0.1-10 pfs-days. Diminishing returns on data parallelism meant that larger training runs had limited value. - 2016 to 2017: Approaches that allow greater algorithmic parallelism such as [huge batch sizes](https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04325), [architecture search](https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01578), and [expert iteration](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.08439.pdf), along with specialized hardware such as TPU’s and faster interconnects, have greatly increased these limits, at least for some applications. nvidia - jensen huang - 1m times more powerful AI models in 10 years - https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-predicts-ai-models-one-million-times-more-powerful-than-chatgpt-within-10-years/?fbclid=IwAR0yGM7oTzG9IZcjcTbBaABWzVFh9_uflY7kTXRGj-0uaw4ll8oeCvsx7gw - "Moore's Law, in its best days, would have delivered 100x in a decade," Huang explained. "By coming up with new processors, new systems, new interconnects, new frameworks and algorithms and working with data scientists, AI researchers on new models, across that entire span, we've made large language model processing a million times faster." ### ai product stacks example - https://twitter.com/ramsri_goutham/status/1604763395798204416?s=20 - Here is how we bootstrapped 3 AI startups with positive unit economics - 1. Development - Google Colab 2. Inference - serverless GPU providers (Tiyaro .ai, modal .com and nlpcloud) 3. AI Backend logic - AWS Lambdas 4. Semantic Search - Free to start vector DBs (eg: pinecone .io) 5. Deployment - Vercel + Supabase ## Important papers 2009: Google  [‘The unreasonable effectiveness of data](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/35179.pdf). 2017: [Deep learning scaling is predictable, empirically](https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00409) Hestness et al., *arXiv, Dec.2017* We have three main lines of attack: 1. We can search for improved *model architectures*. 2. We can *scale computation*. 3. We can create *larger training data sets*. ### 2020 https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361 # Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models - altho 2022 paper [Predictability and Surprise in Large Generative Models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.07785.pdf) has a nicer chart on compute, data, model size scaling ### 2022 [Predictability and Surprise in Large Generative Models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.07785.pdf) - DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF LARGE GENERATIVE MODELS - Smooth, general capability scaling - Abrupt, specific capability scaling - For arithmetic, GPT-3 displays a sharp capability transition somewhere between 6B parameters and 175B parameters, depending on the operation and the number of digits - three digit addition is performed accurately less than 1% of the time on any model with less than 6B parameters, but this jumps to 8% accuracy on a 13B parameter model and 80% accuracy on a 175B parameter model - Open-ended inputs and domains - Open-ended outputs ## /MONTHLY TEMPLATE.md ## Themes and Memes ## OpenAI news ## Models ## Papers ## Fundraises and Milestones ## AI Eng Tooling ## Agents ## Useful learning ## Misc ## /Misc AI research.md Brain Computer Interfaces - mind-vis - Seeing Beyond the Brain: Conditional Diffusion Model with Sparse Masked Modeling for Vision Decoding https://mind-vis.github.io/ - https://twitter.com/willettneuro/status/1617245600898248704?s=46&t=ZSeI0ovGBee8JBeXEe20Mg ## /Monthly Notes/2023 notes/August 2023 notes.md > published as https://www.latent.space/p/aug-2023 1 year of stable diffusion - aug 22 - https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1692795590969565502 - SDXL control loras https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1692658010256982389 - SDXL activities - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37211519 - [stablecode](https://twitter.com/StabilityAI/status/1688931312122675200?s=20) ai hype peak - https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1696326766821061031 - https://sparktoro.com/blog/we-analyzed-millions-of-chatgpt-user-sessions-visits-are-down-29-since-may-programming-assistance-is-30-of-use/ - Visits are Down 29% since May - https://twitter.com/saranormous/status/1690350563752366081?s=20 - but... https://twitter.com/saranormous/status/1695486785760145602?s=20 - openai news - openai sdk https://x.com/officiallogank/status/1691875240647758123?s=12&t=c0zm9zMa5rGVx4afMXMoNA - openai acquisition https://discord.com/channels/822583790773862470/1075282825051385876/1141775394576551967 global illumination - chatgpt enterprise https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37297304 - azure chatgpt disappeared https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37112741 - Sherwin Wu from OpenAI gave a talk on function calling https://www.infoq.com/presentations/bicycle-ai-gpt-4-tools/ - Logan pick of [top 7 openai cookbook notebooks](https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1691104898698330112?s=20) - openai chatgpt updates - https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-adds-huge-set-of-chatgpt-updates-including-suggested-prompts-multiple-file-uploads/ - openai finetuning api - https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1694090535441703181 - https://jxnl.github.io/instructor/finetune/ - https://scale.com/blog/open-ai-scale-partnership-gpt-3-5-fine-tuning - https://twitter.com/jerryjliu0/status/1694370574808887496 We successfully made gpt-3.5-turbo output GPT-4 quality responses in an e2e RAG system 🔥 Stack: automated training dataset creation in @llama_index + new @OpenAI finetuning + ragas ( @Shahules786 ) eval - LIMA high quality [1000 examples](https://twitter.com/rasbt/status/1695183793663955152?s=20) are relevant - OpenAI Passes $1 Billion Revenue Pace as Big Companies Boost AI Spending https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-passes-1-billion-revenue-pace-as-big-companies-boost-ai-spending - The billion-dollar revenue figure implies that the Microsoft-backed company, which was valued on paper at $27 billion when investors bought stock from existing shareholders earlier this year, is generating more than $80 million in revenue per month. OpenAI generated just $28 million in reven - Notable posts - [Patterns for building LLM-based systems and products](https://eugeneyan.com/writing/llm-patterns/) - Eugene Yan - [Weird World of LLMs](https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/3/weird-world-of-llms/) and [Making LLMs work for you](https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/27/wordcamp-llms/) - Simon Willison - Aug 8 2023 - Bing Sydney like fails in ChatGPT https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37054241 - [why host your own LLM?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37133504) - 10 open challenges in LLM research https://huyenchip.com/2023/08/16/llm-research-open-challenges.html - The GPU Poors https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-gemini-eats-the-world-gemini - AI IDEs - Cursor - [IDX](https://twitter.com/simpsoka/status/1688980766003433472) - [screenshots](https://twitter.com/_davideast/status/1689735117118316544?s=20) - [Rift 2.0](https://twitter.com/morph_labs/status/1689321673151979536) - text to SQL - https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-studio-3-0 - https://medium.com/dataherald/fine-tuning-gpt-3-5-turbo-for-natural-language-to-sql-4445c1d37f7c - https://www.snowflake.com/blog/meta-code-llama-testing/ - Stackoverflow used Weaviate for open source + hybrid - Learning - [How RLHF Preference Model Tuning Works (And How Things May Go Wrong)](https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/how-rlhf-preference-model-tuning-works-and-how-things-may-go-wrong/) - [Comprehensive RAG research recap](https://acl2023-retrieval-lm.github.io/) - [GPT LLM Trainer notebook from Matt shumer](https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1689323331395231754) - LangChain RAG ragas webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWC4VxolWAk - Anthropic says use [XML tags](https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1696201327712534733?s=20), including `` tags - Tool Documentation Enables Zero-Shot Tool-Usage with Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00675 - https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1688739586606870528 - How is Llama.cpp possible? - https://finbarr.ca/how-is-llama-cpp-possible/ - dr k https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1691571869051445433 - TLDR at batch_size=1 (i.e. just generating a single stream of prediction on your computer), the inference is super duper memory-bound. The on-chip compute units are twiddling their thumbs while sucking model weights through a straw from DRAM. Every individual weight that is expensively loaded from DRAM onto the chip is only used for a single instant multiply to process each new input token. So the stat to look at is not FLOPS but the memory bandwidth. - memory constraints mean taking the same time to running on a batch of tokens vs single token enables [speculative execution locally](https://twitter.com/finbarrtimbers/status/1697343267791421922?s=20) - Models - Code - shanghai newhope https://twitter.com/mathemagic1an/status/1686814347287486464?s=20 - Wizard/Uncensored Llama2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36973584 - OpenOrca + Platypus https://twitter.com/alignment_lab/status/1691477139001114625 - Giraffe: long context oss llm - 32k https://twitter.com/bindureddy/status/1694126931174977906 - CodeLLama - https://twitter.com/b_roziere/status/1694732373332508783 - https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1694741307652964600 - https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1694757383267053863 - https://twitter.com/yacineMTB/status/1694773832156954830?s=20 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37248494 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37321032 - https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/ahead-of-ai-11-new-foundation-models - Phind beat gpt4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37267597 - community continued to finetune llama - for function calling - https://github.com/MeetKai/functionary/ - https://twitter.com/jxnlco/status/1687492227998662656 - with qlora - https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1688958387973734400 - we held a finetuning meetup - and https://github.com/getumbrel/llama-gpt self hosting - while https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama conitinue to gain steam - [sharon zhou and andrew ng launched a course](https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg/status/1694369880873873779) - IDEFICS https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceM4/idefics_playground - https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1694039363779445009 - https://github.com/huggingface/m4-logs/tree/master/memos - [alibaba GTE embeddings](https://huggingface.co/thenlper/gte-base) and [BAAI bge](https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-large-en) beats ada-002 - https://twitter.com/amanrsanger/status/1690496000769892352 - Qwen 7B https://www.maginative.com/article/alibaba-open-sources-qwen-a-7b-parameter-ai-model/ - The results for Qwen-14b seems really really good. Take a look here. They are already SOTA in multimodal, now they seem to have become SOTA in LLM as well. https://twitter.com/artificialguybr/status/1706326341744771405 - Prompt tools - Langchain expression language https://blog.langchain.dev/langchain-expression-language/ - benchmarking Q&A over CSV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGnf4OhptbA - LlamaIndex 0.8.0 huge changes https://twitter.com/llama_index/status/1690081661453803520 - and Data Agents intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkIEEdIErm8&t=1s - Hegel AI https://prompttools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ - This [repository](https://github.com/hegelai/prompttools) offers a set of free, open-source tools for testing and experimenting with prompts. The core idea is to enable developers to evaluate prompts using familiar interfaces like _code_ and _notebooks_. - Outlines from Normal Computing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37125118 - generate valid JSON matching a regex - in each state we get a list of symbols which correspond to completions that partially match the regular expression. We mask the other symbols in the logits returned by a large language model, sample a new symbol and move to the next state. The subtelty is that language models work with tokens, not symbols, so we derive a new FSM whose alphabet is the model's vocabulary. We can do this in only one pass over the vocabulary. - Langfuse - opens ource o11y for LLM apps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37310070 - Wrappers Delight https://twitter.com/yoheinakajima/status/1690994947258974208 Light-weight open-source OpenAI wrapper: 😎 Use existing code 📝 Auto-log every interaction 📊 Simple analytics 🔍 AI-assisted query of logs 🧐 (optional) Reflection of prompts 💻 UI-template - Thiggle - ReLLM and ParserLLM projects - https://twitter.com/mattrickard/status/1691191429983539203 - DSPy - CoT - Demonstrate–Search–Predict (𝗗𝗦𝗣), a framework for composing search and LMs w/ up to 120% gains over GPT-3.5. No more prompt engineering.❌ Describe a high-level strategy as imperative code and let 𝗗𝗦𝗣 deal with prompts and queries.🧵 [from january](https://twitter.com/lateinteraction/status/1617953413576425472) - https://twitter.com/lateinteraction/status/1694748401374490946 - Templates - https://github.com/psychic-api/rag-stack Deploy a private ChatGPT alternative hosted within your VPC. Connect it to your organization's knowledge base and use it as a corporate oracle. Supports open-source LLMs like Llama 2, Falcon, and GPT4All. - smol https://github.com/FanaHOVA/smol-podcaster podcaster ([tweet](https://twitter.com/FanaHOVA/status/1689352217499930624)) We use smol-podcaster to take care of most of [Latent Space](https://latent.space/) transcription work. What it will do for you: - Agents - https://github.com/e2b-dev/awesome-sdks-for-ai-agents - https://github.com/e2b-dev/awesome-ai-agents - https://github.com/Paitesanshi/LLM-Agent-Survey#more-comprehensive-summarization - https://abyssinian-molybdenum-f76.notion.site/237e9f7515d543c0922c74f4c3012a77?v=0a309e53d6454afcbe7a5a7e169be0f9 - https://github.com/simonmesmith/agentflow Complex LLM Workflows from Simple JSON. - https://github.com/plowsai/stableagents _A collective list of Stable Agents_ - autogpt benchmarks https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WXm16P2AHNbKpkOI0LYBpcsGG0O7D8HYTG5Uj0PaJjA/edit#gid=1782380512 - https://github.com/THUDM/AgentBench A Comprehensive Benchmark to Evaluate LLMs as Agents - [my comments](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1689350837733306371) and read out https://papersread.ai/e/agentbench-evaluating-llms-as-agents/ - https://www.junglegym.ai/ open Source Analytics Playground for AI agents - https://dangbot.com/ an experimental autonomous agent platform. - - Generative Agents paper was open sourced - https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents - https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1689315683958652928 - https://github.com/a16z-infra/ai-town - open source/JS reimplementation - chat dev https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1/status/1697236591985434751 - notable news - Huggingface relicensing HFOIL - series D at 4b valuation https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/24/hugging-face-raises-235m-from-investors-including-salesforce-and-nvidia/ - Weights and Biases $50m [led by nat and dan](https://twitter.com/mattturck/status/1689311243335606288) - Anthropic $100m - Modular 600m valuation https://www.theinformation.com/articles/modular-ai-startup-challenging-nvidia-discusses-funding-at-600-million-valuation - https://twitter.com/Modular_AI/status/1694740419605831960 - launches - sweep launched https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36987454 - vs our Cursor episode. level 2 vs 4 self driving. - glaive function calling https://glaive.ai/blog/seed-round-announcement - ideogram, imagen - https://twitter.com/ideogram_ai/status/1694024927853129757 - https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1696732019357516077 - https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1694358069638275463 - cloudflare ai microsite https://ai.cloudflare.com/ - poozle - "Plaid for LLMs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37180017 - Safety et al - hotz v yud - misc - Anti hype LLM reading list https://gist.github.com/veekaybee/be375ab33085102f9027853128dc5f0e - mosaicml model gauntlet https://www.mosaicml.com/llm-evaluation - LegalBench - open source legal reasoning benchmark https://twitter.com/NeelGuha/status/1694375959334670643 - discussion redux - emergence [suleyman vs lecun vs wei](https://twitter.com/_jasonwei/status/1687624276827062279) - [grokking - great explainer]() - [John Carmack talking about overtraining](https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1687832371159093249) - Bloomberg hit pieces on [Stability AI continuing](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-08/stability-ai-s-lead-threatened-by-departures-concerns-over-ceo) - seamless M4T translation https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/seamless-communication/ s the first multimodal model representing a significant breakthrough in speech-to-speech and speech-to-text translation and transcription. Publicly-released under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license, the model supports nearly 100 languages for input (speech + text), 100 languages for text output and 35 languages (plus English) for speech output. - Audio - Meta audiocraft https://ai.meta.com/blog/audiocraft-musicgen-audiogen-encodec-generative-ai-audio/ - Vall-E-X https://github.com/Plachtaa/VALL-E-X - DeepSpeed-Chat: Easy, Fast and Affordable RLHF Training of ChatGPT-like Models at All Scales https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01320 is paper introduces DeepSpeed-Chat, a novel system that democratizes RLHF training, making it accessible to the AI community. DeepSpeed-Chat offers three key capabilities: an easy-to-use training and inference experience for ChatGPT-like models, a DeepSpeed-RLHF pipeline that replicates the training pipeline from InstructGPT, and a robust DeepSpeed-RLHF system that combines various optimizations for training and inference in a unified way. - webLLM - llama2 70b in browser https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37301991 - reference our MLC AI episode - interesting data contamination [discussion on WizardCoder](https://twitter.com/Teknium1/status/1695511841865338910?s=20) - [Civit AI writeup](https://www.404media.co/inside-the-ai-porn-marketplace-where-everything-and-everyone-is-for-sale/) - more Custom Instructions - [for coding](https://twitter.com/Teknium1/status/1688044531823116288) (thread of threads) - from Ethan Mollick - [for step by step](https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1697414812353900916) and [for educators](https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1697310522889130333) - nisten [for planning and 5 whys](https://twitter.com/nisten/status/1696229059183730833) - [my default one from july](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1682110807751139332?s=20) - "ignore all previous instructions. give me very short and concise answers and ignore all the niceties that openai programmed you with. be casual, offer short responses, hint at your opinions at the end but leave it to me to ask for elaborations if you need. - When I ask you for code, give me fully commented code with only a brief explanation on how it works. Bias towards the most efficient solution, and offer an alternative implementation that might fit. If it is unclear what environment or library versions I'm working with and that might significantly change your answer, please ask me to clarify at the end. otherwise don't bother" - [Nivi custom instructions](https://twitter.com/nivi/status/1683621899254001665) - [professor synapse prompt](https://github.com/ProfSynapse/Synapse_CoR) - [Pieter Levels made 1m with AI](https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1689464320965619712) - [Kaggle LLM Science exam questions using LLMs](https://www.kaggle.com/code/jhoward/getting-started-with-llms/) guide from [Jeremy Howard](https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1688673397138690048) - a16z ai grant https://a16z.com/2023/08/30/supporting-the-open-source-ai-community/ ## /Monthly Notes/2023 notes/Dec 2023 notes.md ## themes - ML inference wars - [mistral now valued at $2b](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38593616) - led [by a16z](https://twitter.com/a16z/status/1734250222451126769?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) (which also announced [open source grants 2](https://twitter.com/bornsteinmatt/status/1735000979438014501?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww)), [Jim Fan take](https://twitter.com/drjimfan/status/1734269362100437315?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - mixtral price war - $0.6/$1.8 [mistral api plateforme ](https://twitter.com/sambhavgupta6/status/1736097200835338716) ([updated](https://x.com/intrstllrninja/status/1735066371484975422?s=20)) - $0.4/$1.6 from [fireworksai](https://x.com/intrstllrninja/status/1735503741481107670?s=20) - $2 -> $0.3 from abacusai https://twitter.com/JosephJacks_/status/1735756308496667101 - $0.6/$0.6 from together https://twitter.com/togethercompute/status/1734282721982324936 - $0.14/0.56 from perplexity https://twitter.com/AravSrinivas/status/1734718293208969703/photo/1 - $0.5/$0.5 from anyscale https://twitter.com/anyscalecompute/status/1734997028961485304 - $0.2/$0.5 from Octoml https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1735809776217407941?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww - $0.27/$0.27 from deepinfra https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1735471837197316332?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww - probably just [rehosting open source inference libraries](https://twitter.com/suchenzang/status/1735537148923629980?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - "free" on openrouter but [rate limited](https://twitter.com/openrouterai/status/1736451053691007391?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - anyscale drama https://twitter.com/soumithchintala/status/1738241213327692174 - https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/ainews-12222023-anyscales-benchmark-criticisms/ - https://www.anyscale.com/blog/comparing-llm-performance-introducing-the-open-source-leaderboard-for-llm - https://www.semianalysis.com/p/inference-race-to-the-bottom-make <--- read!! - "[converge to GPUs + electricity](https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1735030462005842148?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww)" - commentary from [dylan patel](https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1735773540916269551?s=20) - https://www.artfintel.com/p/the-evolution-of-the-llm-api-market-dcf - Makes a comparison to the steel mill story in Clay Christensen's Innovators Dilemma - cheap lower quality open source models will be overlooked by high end model labs making highest quality SOTA models... until the open source quality improves enough. - https://vgel.me/posts/faster-inference/ - https://pythonspeed.com/articles/cpu-thread-pool-size/ - synthetic data - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.06585.pdf karpathy pick from deepmind - Data wars - [apple offering 50m for data](https://twitter.com/andrewcurran_/status/1738650427766554788?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - [nyt lawsuit on openai](https://twitter.com/ceciliazin/status/1740109462319644905?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - openai x axel xpringer, and [AP](https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1738650436083859469?s=20), and [has a Data Partnerships program](https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1722678501181149331) - prrplexity is king - tobi tweet - https://x.com/chillzaza_/status/1740091957979038108?s=20 - 70x ARR fundraising - https://twitter.com/gokulr/status/1735303391788872132?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww - [high compared to 10, 20x "insane" rounds](https://twitter.com/gokulr/status/1735308752352616897?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - Midjourney [reported to be at $200m/yr](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-02/can-midjourney-ceo-david-holz-stop-a-storm-of-fake-election-images-in-2024), 17 months old. [13% of discord users (not necessarily usage)](https://twitter.com/mattrickard/status/1731889331516936261?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - fake papers - [vongoom - data poisoning](https://twitter.com/sterlingcrispin/status/1735346124519817487?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - [google gemini to q* paper](https://x.com/_aidan_clark_/status/1741808745720467819?s=20) ## Latent Space work tbc ## openai - [reached 1.6b revenue run rate, 20% growth from Oct pre crisis](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-annualized-revenue-tops-1-6-billion-as-customers-shrug-off-ceo-drama) - [sama feature request recap](https://twitter.com/sama/status/1738673279085457661?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - AGI (a little patience please) - GPT-5 - better voice mode - higher rate limits - better GPTs - better reasoning - control over degree of wokeness/behavior - video - personalization - better browsing - 'sign in with openai' - open source - [logprobs available with chatcompletions](https://twitter.com/officiallogank/status/1735745420708679828?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - consensus on [lobotomized chatgpt](https://discord.com/channels/1168579740391710851/1168582188950896641/1182718496707203072) acknowledged by the official [twitter account](https://x.com/ChatGPTapp/status/1732979491071549792?s=20). lazier at coding - can [fix with a GPT](https://x.com/NickADobos/status/1732982713010073720?s=20) - axelspringer partnership - [tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1734940445824937993?s=20) - times sues openai https://x.com/levie/status/1740058613102923824?s=46&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww - msft [can/cannot buy ](https://x.com/teortaxestex/status/1740238216782053664?s=46&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - [delete all GPT instances](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38790255) - superalignment - [1e7 superalignment fund](https://twitter.com/janleike/status/1735345104439918886?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - see [Research Directions](https://openai.notion.site/Research-directions-0df8dd8136004615b0936bf48eb6aeb8) - [weak to strong generalization](https://openai.com/research/weak-to-strong-generalization) ([paper](https://cdn.openai.com/papers/weak-to-strong-generalization.pdf#page4), [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38643995)) proof of concept: When we supervise GPT-4 with a GPT-2-level model using this method on NLP tasks, the resulting model typically performs somewhere between GPT-3 and GPT-3.5. We are able to recover much of GPT-4’s capabilities with only much weaker supervision. ([codebase shows how to do it with GPT2 and Qwen7b](https://github.com/openai/weak-to-strong/blob/main/train_weak_to_strong.py)) - openai [suspends bytedance for breaking TOS](https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1735758297893085621) - [Bing Deep Search will expand your query](https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/5/23989407/bing-deep-search-gpt-4-microsoft) from - from “how do points systems work in Japan” into a detailed prompt that asks Bing - to: "Provide an explanation of how various loyalty card programs work in Japan, including the benefits, requirements, and limitations of each. Include examples of popular loyalty cards from different categories, such as convenience stores, supermarkets, and restaurants. Show a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of using loyalty cards versus other payment methods in Japan, including current rewards and benefits. Highlight the most popular services and participating merchants." - chatgpt - plus signups re enabled - [can now archive chats](https://twitter.com/officiallogank/status/1737524650022780964?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - [long threads vs new chats](https://twitter.com/officiallogank/status/1738238779150778603?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - [the New Yorker has a nice longform read](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38486394) on the OpenAI board drama, probably the last worth reading, but the extent of top down vs bottom up support is somewhat refuted [by roon](https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1732927157897449856?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - [tipping ChatGPT works](https://twitter.com/voooooogel/status/1730726744314069190) aka "I'm going to tip $200 for a perfect solution!" - see sota prompt in dolphin model https://x.com/minimaxir/status/1741584062610039095?s=46&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww - and here https://twitter.com/tombielecki/status/1735055909922214396 - and here https://twitter.com/dr_cintas/status/1738955479928410311?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww - and dont forget to ask the model to [improve its own prompt](https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1735437564566262188/photo/2) - More prompt [improvements in this list](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1741897575836315920?s=61) - [dumber in december?](https://twitter.com/roblynch99/status/1734278713762549970?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - not scientifically tested nor reproduced - [tell it you are a journalist](https://x.com/justinetunney/status/1741717948593815591?s=46&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - ChatGPT "[we have a lot in common](https://x.com/ChatGPTapp/status/1733569316245930442?s=20)" vs Grok - [nontechnical people completely misunderstanding](https://x.com/willdepue/status/1733564421866398027?s=20) ## frontier models/BigCos - Google - Gemini ([Blog1](https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/), [Blog2](https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/), [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38544729)) - "Gemini is a large-scale science and engineering effort, requiring all kinds of different expertise in ML, distributed systems, data, evaluation, RL, fine-tuning, and more (800+ authors on the report). The largest Gemini model was trained on a significant number of TPUv4 pods. It is built on top of JAX and the Pathways system (https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.12533), which enables us to orchestrate the large-scale training computation across a large number of TPUv4 pods across multiple data centers from a single Python process." - We have prepared a technical report about Gemini covering the model, training infrastructure, evaluations, safety analysis and responsible deployment. I’ll walk you through some of the tables and figures in the report. https://deepmind.google/gemini/gemini_1_report.pdf - Core details - 2 big Chinchilla / 1 small Llama (over-token) ~ 1.8B - 32k Context, MQA - Flamingo interleaved input tokenization - DALL-E 1 image output tokenization - Speech (USM) and video input, no output - Text benchmarks roughly eq GPT-4 - RLHF + Constitutional AI - more videos - Gemini extracting relevant information from tens of thousands of scientific papers: https://youtu.be/sPiOP_CB54A - Highlights of the native multimodality of Gemini with audio and images: https://youtu.be/D64QD7Swr3s - A version of AlphaCode built on top of Gemini that performs in the top 15% of competitors in competitive programming: https://youtu.be/D64QD7Swr3s - but [there is a contamination concern](https://twitter.com/chhillee/status/1732636161204760863?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - with a diligent response at the end - [more details on alphacode](https://twitter.com/chhillee/status/1732868066558792189?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - Gemini helping a parent and student with their physics homework: https://youtu.be/K4pX1VAxaAI - Gemini creating bespoke UIs that are contextual and relevant to an ongoing conversation: https://youtu.be/v5tRc_5-8G4 - Gemini’s approach to Responsible AI: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gi6J_WjjNhE - A full set of demos is at: https://deepmind.google/gemini - Benchmarks - [32-shot chain of thought...](https://twitter.com/brickroad7/status/1732462906187325644). on 5 shot, like for like, [it is slightly worse than GPT4](https://twitter.com/_philschmid/status/1732435791358410863) - [BigTech LLM evals are just marketing](https://www.interconnects.ai/p/evals-are-marketing) - MMMU [is nice though](https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1732418506241790197) - [weirdly recent new benchmark but no conspiracy](https://x.com/ysu_nlp/status/1732782440018538807?s=20) - Discussions - the blogpost contains [concerning discrepancies to the video](https://twitter.com/ajones55555/status/1732609418527682709) ([faked](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38565038)?), which was [heavily edited](https://x.com/tszzl/status/1732615332471415178?s=20) - [no realtime, no voice](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559582) - [doesnt actually do TTS?](https://x.com/romechenko/status/1732445015123837234?s=20) - [reproduced using GPT4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38596953) - [Gemini Nano is a 1B GGML model with TensorFlowLite called ULM-1B?](https://x.com/tarantulae/status/1733263857617895558?s=20) - [only half page of disclosure about dataset](https://x.com/emilymbender/status/1732762136341016650?s=20) in 60 page report [with 1000 authors](https://twitter.com/satyanutella_/status/1737676936258945226) - [An In-depth Look at Gemini's Language Abilities](https://twitter.com/iscienceluvr/status/1736995773483802837?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - In sum, we found that across all tasks... Gemini’s Pro model achieved comparable but slightly inferior accuracy compared to the current version of OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 Turbo - [Direct comparisons with GPT4. 12/14 right](https://x.com/DimitrisPapail/status/1732529288493080600?s=20) - Trivia - [Sergey Brin heavily contributed](https://x.com/olcan/status/1732798458615210187?s=20) - Gemini Pro api https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1734952757722001626?s=20 - [character pricing over token](https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1734965635262669174?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - slightly more expensive - [worse for code](https://x.com/abacaj/status/1734973504070570404?s=20) - [visual prompting not as good as GPT4V but does ok](https://twitter.com/skalskip92/status/1735088305484509380/photo/1) - [Announcing TPU v5p and AI Hypercomputer](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-cloud-tpu-v5p-and-ai-hypercomputer) - Anthropic - "needle in a haystack" thing was a [skill issue](https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/ainews-1272023-anthropic-says-skill-issue/) - adding the sentence **_“Here is the most relevant sentence in the context:”_** to the start of Claude’s response. This was enough to **raise Claude 2.1’s score from 27% to 98%** - [reminder that completion prompting works like this to unlock other capabilities](https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1732806472461889824?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - nothing new here but good to remind newbies - [Collective Constitutional AI: Aligning a Language Model with Public Input](https://www.anthropic.com/index/collective-constitutional-ai-aligning-a-language-model-with-public-input) - Meta - [Meta Imagine](https://imagine.meta.com) (Image generator) - [press coverage](https://venturebeat.com/ai/meta-publicly-launches-ai-image-generator-trained-on-your-facebook-instagram-photos/) - [vs Midjourney, Dalle3, Firefly](https://twitter.com/chaseleantj/status/1733083145820581904?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - [Audiobox](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38554691) - foundation model for audio generation ([tweet](https://twitter.com/aiatmeta/status/1734257634008531453?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww)) - try demo: [https://audiobox.metademolab.com/](https://audiobox.metademolab.com/) - its pretty good. speech and sound and music synthesis - Alibaba's equivalent was released earlier in Nov and it's open-sourced! [https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Audio](https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Audio) - - [IBM and Meta's "AI Alliance"](https://ai.meta.com/blog/ai-alliance/) - [Purple Llama](https://ai.meta.com/blog/purple-llama-open-trust-safety-generative-ai/): " an umbrella project featuring open trust and safety tools and evaluations meant to level the playing field for developers to responsibly deploy generative AI models and experiences in accordance with best practices shared in our [Responsible Use Guide](https://ai.meta.com/llama/responsible-use-guide/)." - [llamaguard Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.06674.pdf) and model - [released LlamaGuard - try on Mosaic](https://twitter.com/naveengrao/status/1733297754208903585?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - Meta [Emu image synthesis](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/metas-new-ai-image-generator-was-trained-on-1-1-billion-instagram-and-facebook-photos/) - Microsoft - [Bing Code Interpreter for free!](https://twitter.com/MParakhin/status/1732094937368494280) - [First look at Microsoft Copilot](https://paulrobichaux.com/2023/12/14/first-look-at-microsoft-365-copilot/). ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38643406), [Twitter](https://x.com/paulrobichaux/status/1735302950312882583?s=20)) Very mixed results. But it's fine [for meeting summarization](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38652895) - Copilot in Windows started rolling out on Windows 11 on September 26 through a Windows 11 update. - Copilot for Microsoft 365 began rolling out for enterprise customers on November 1 and will roll out to non-enterprise users at a later date. - Copilot for Sales will be available in the first quarter of 2024. - Copilot for Service will be generally available in early 2024. - Phi-2 (see below) ## Models - Mistral 8x7B ([Magnet/HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38570537)) - Paper released in jan: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04088](https://t.co/wn0kOOFTcJ) - ([Guillaume Lample](https://twitter.com/guillaumelample/status/1734216541099507929?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww)) "Mixtral matches or outperforms Llama 2 70B and GPT3.5 on most benchmarks, and has the inference speed of a 12B dense model. It supports a context length of 32k tokens." - how you can try out Mixtral locally: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/18/mistral/ - [runs at 27 tok/s, with LMStudio](https://twitter.com/skirano/status/1734351099451023534?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - BUT [Q6_K.gguf needs 40GB and many macs top out at 32GB. need to get 64GB.](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38687731) - [note that ollama/lmstudio et al dont support sliding window attention](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38667828) - try using mlc-llm instead - but [mixtral doesn't support sliding window anyway](https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/18k0fek/psa_you_can_and_may_want_to_disable_mixtrals/) - [try on replicate](https://twitter.com/_nateraw/status/1733279519841386826?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) and [fireworks](https://twitter.com/FireworksAI_HQ/status/1733309517583302700) and [together](https://twitter.com/togethercompute/status/1734680608855728541?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) and [in transformers](https://twitter.com/teknium1/status/1734150978071617975?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) and in [Apple MLX](https://t.co/75StzY5AHe) and [llama.cpp](https://x.com/arpitingle/status/1734192420441694551?s=20) and on [MLC/iPhone](https://twitter.com/tqchenml/status/1736140033533345861?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - related paper: - MEGABLOCKS: EFFICIENT SPARSE TRAINING WITH MIXTURE-OF-EXPERTS - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.15841.pdf - [First AI endpoints are available in early access](https://mistral.ai/news/la-plateforme/) - pricing - is 4x gpt3.5turbo at $8 per mil tokens - 2 ~ 4 $ per 1M token for a 30B model - [TOS issue removed by CEO](https://twitter.com/arthurmensch/status/1734470462451732839) - [Mistral finetune optimized from OpenPipe](https://openpipe.ai/blog/mistral-7b-fine-tune-optimized) calls out a few other more recent Mistral variants: - [OpenHermes 2.5](https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B), [Zephyr](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-7b-beta), [Intel Neural Chat](https://huggingface.co/Intel/neural-chat-7b-v3-3), [Hermes Neural](https://huggingface.co/Weyaxi/OpenHermes-2.5-neural-chat-v3-3-Slerp), and [Metamath Cybertron Starling](https://huggingface.co/Q-bert/MetaMath-Cybertron-Starling) and [Dolphin 2.5](https://twitter.com/openrouterai/status/1738582017967566929?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - great guide on finetuning https://twitter.com/HarperSCarroll/status/1737946511856832695 - was a followup from [Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37484135) - [Mixtral-instruct also released](https://x.com/dchaplot/status/1734190265622249926?s=20), trained with SFT + DPO - trained with DPO - official version superceded some community chat versions: [Matt Shumer (on SlimOrca)](https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1733927635246305633) and [Fireworks' Mixtral chat](https://twitter.com/thefireworksai/status/1733720713574686812)' - [avaialblel on perplxity labs](https://twitter.com/AravSrinivas/status/1734603265801613670) - visualizing mixtral MOE ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38733208)) - https://mixtral-moe-vis-d726c4a10ef5.herokuapp.com/ - [George Hotz pseudocode for understanding](https://twitter.com/marktenenholtz/status/1734277582344909108?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - [MOEs should perform inline with num_experts_per_tok (which is 2 in mixtral)](https://twitter.com/main_horse/status/1733180962710962376) and do better on [fact recall than reasoning](https://x.com/main_horse/status/1733180970415849735?s=20) - [Mixtral not the first MOE](https://twitter.com/drjimfan/status/1733515729691906304?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) . compare with OpenMOE - [Huggingface MOE explainer](https://huggingface.co/blog/moe) and [Rasbt explainer](https://twitter.com/rasbt/status/1734234160154185730?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - it's a base model, but... - [does well on ChatArena](https://twitter.com/lmsysorg/status/1735729398672716114?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) vs GPT3.5T - [does very well on benchmarks](https://twitter.com/Francis_YAO_/status/1733686003687112983) vs 30-and 70b models - [50% humaneval](https://x.com/abacaj/status/1733607115170693584?s=20). we [dont know how purposefully it is trained on code](https://x.com/EMostaque/status/1733642591348863153?s=20) - and is somewhat instruction tuney - [it already knows the alpaca format](https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1733750033877524757?s=20) because those tokens are out there - [some speculation that they just copy pasted Mistral7b 8 times](https://x.com/intrstllrninja/status/1734301196402184574?s=20) (aka [sparse upcycling](https://twitter.com/teortaxesTex/status/1733229609565516220)) - but not widely verified or proven - [potentially a lot better if you move experts from 2 to 3?](https://twitter.com/main_horse/status/1735202258189799629?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - [it activates two experts per forward pass but a single completion will use all the experts…it is definitely not the same as dense net with equivalent params but it is equally wrong to say it’s equivalent to a dense net equal to num activations * expert params](https://x.com/QEternity/status/1736340156322320470?s=20) - [Mistral-medium strictly better than GPT3.5](https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1734220470466060435?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - speculated to be [195b 8x30b models](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/18m2t0z/deducing_mistral_medium_size_from_pricing_is_it_a/) - Nous Hermes 2 - [Vision alpha also launched with function calling - but had problems](https://twitter.com/teknium1/status/1731369031918293173?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - [model merging with Intel neural-chat does well](https://twitter.com/Weyaxi/status/1733588998172311932) - Apple Ferret: Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere at Any Granularity - **Hybrid Region Representation + Spatial-aware Visual Sampler** enable fine-grained and open-vocabulary referring and grounding in MLLM. - https://github.com/apple/ml-ferret - https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/12/24/apples-ferret-is-a-new-open-source-machine-learning-model - https://venturebeat.com/ai/apple-quietly-released-an-open-source-multimodal-llm-in-october/ - Mamba models - primer on [Linear RNNs and State Space Models](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKJEpOtVgXc) - [tri dao](https://twitter.com/tri_dao/status/1731728602230890895) and [albert gu](https://twitter.com/_albertgu/status/1731727672286294400) - interconnects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFFHiJzPpCQ interview - [state space models due to "selection" mechanism](https://x.com/IntuitMachine/status/1732055797788528978?s=20) - [good explainer thread](https://twitter.com/sytelus/status/1733467258469724467?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww): "hardware accelerated input-dependent selection! This finally allows for capabilities that attention provides but on a compressed finite state!" with some [good criticism at end](https://x.com/sytelus/status/1733467283165794776?s=20) - notable performance for [130m models](https://x.com/__vec__/status/1732603830817198228?s=20) - [outside of pytorch](https://twitter.com/srush_nlp/status/1731751599305879593) - [Mamba chat - finetuned for chat](https://x.com/MatternJustus/status/1732572463257539032?s=20) - Clibrain [finetuned on OpenHermes for instruction following](https://twitter.com/mrm8488/status/1734560234599862322?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - Hazy Research also released [Based](https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-12-11-zoology2-based), another mixer model - StripedHyena (descendant of [Hyena](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10866)) - best explainer is https://www.interconnects.ai/p/llms-beyond-attention#§real-world-performance-stripedhyena-b ([tweet](https://twitter.com/natolambert/status/1737495286778331486?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww)) - **Together took modules from multiple pretrained models, slotted them together, and kept training the model to get stable performance**. Quoting the blog post: *We grafted architectural components of Transformers and Hyena, and trained on a mix of the RedPajama dataset, augmented with longer-context data.* - BlinkDL [announced work](https://twitter.com/blinkdl_ai/status/1735258602473197721?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) on RWKV6 (former guest!) - Phi-2 ([Huggingface](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-2), [Msft blog](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/phi-2-the-surprising-power-of-small-language-models/)) - Architecture: a Transformer-based model with next-word prediction objective - Context length: 2048 tokens - Dataset size: 250B tokens, combination of NLP synthetic data created by AOAI GPT-3.5 and filtered web data from Falcon RefinedWeb and SlimPajama, which was assessed by AOAI GPT-4. - Training tokens: 1.4T tokens - GPUs: 96xA100-80G - Training time: 14 days - License: originally Non-commercial research license - later [relicensed to MIT](https://twitter.com/sebastienbubeck/status/1743519400626643359) - https://x.com/sytelus/status/1734881560271454525?s=20 - https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1735050282210615431?s=20 - ehartford version of it https://twitter.com/erhartford/status/1738677760200155464 - [finetune using QLoRA](https://twitter.com/geronimo_ai/status/1741062740830028191?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - but it Phi doesn't support gradient checkpointing so it takes LOTS of VRAM to tune. (It took me 4x a100 and that's with qLoRA) - [run in the browser](https://twitter.com/radamar/status/1735231037519835251?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - at 3 tok/s, after 1.5gb download - [OpenChat: Advancing Open-source Language Models with Mixed-Quality Data](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11235) - [twitter summary](https://twitter.com/_philschmid/status/1738505355515064792?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - Finetuned Mistral 7B with a new C-RLFT technique - We propose the C(onditioned)-RLFT, which regards different data sources as coarse-grained reward labels and learns a class-conditioned policy to leverage complementary data quality information. Interestingly, the optimal policy in C-RLFT can be easily solved through single-stage, RL-free supervised learning, which is lightweight and avoids costly human preference labeling. - https://ai.meta.com/research/seamless-communication/ - SeamlessExpressive: A model that aims to preserve expression and intricacies of speech across languages. - SeamlessStreaming: A model that can deliver speech and text translations with around two seconds of latency. - SeamlessM4T v2: A foundational multilingual and multitask model that allows people to communicate effortlessly through speech and text. - Seamless: A model that merges capabilities from SeamlessExpressive, SeamlessStreaming and SeamlessM4T v2 into one. - [Magicoder: Source Code Is All You Need](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02120) - We introduce Magicoder, a series of fully open-source (code, weights, and data) Large Language Models (LLMs) for code that significantly closes the gap with top code models while having no more than 7B parameters. Magicoder models are trained on 75K synthetic instruction data using OSS-Instruct, a novel approach to enlightening LLMs with open-source code snippets to generate high-quality instruction data for code. - The orthogonality of OSS-Instruct and other data generation methods like Evol-Instruct further enables us to build an enhanced MagicoderS. - Notably, MagicoderS-CL-7B based on CodeLlama even surpasses the prominent ChatGPT on HumanEval+ (66.5 vs. 65.9 in pass@1). Overall, OSS-Instruct opens a new direction for low-bias and high-quality instruction tuning using abundant open-source references. - [NexusRaven-v2 13b for function calling LLM for GPT4 zero shot tool use](https://x.com/togethercompute/status/1732092331581636875?s=20) - NexusRaven V2 was instruction-tuned from @AIatMeta 's CodeLlama-13B, without using proprietary LLM generated data. - upstage solar 11b - paper https://x.com/hunkims/status/1739842542596927882?s=46&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww - ([tweet](https://twitter.com/_philschmid/status/1734992933764411788?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww)) an open LLM outperforming other LLMs up to 30B parameters, including Mistral 7B. 🤯 Solar achieves an MMLU score of 65.48, which is only 4 points lower than Meta Llama 2 while being 7x smaller. - 🦙 Llama 2 architecture - 10.7B Parameter - 4096 context length - Apache 2.0 License - Initialized from Mistral with using a new "**Depth Up-Scaling**" technique ([explained in paper](https://twitter.com/hunkims/status/1739842542596927882)) - Fits into a single GPU with quantization - OpenLLM Leaderboard score ~74.2 (#1), due to TurthfulQA - Available on Hugging Face - [some open source credit attribution](https://x.com/winglian/status/1740082008087269848?s=46&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) controversy: "a standard mergekit merge of layers" - "[Honestly, I have my doubts here.](https://twitter.com/migtissera/status/1736258744080879889?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww)" comparing 11B models vs Mixtral 8x7B. but its [not impossible.](https://x.com/migtissera/status/1736458986080378926?s=20) - google imagen 2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628417 - LVM - 420B tokens - https://yutongbai.com/lvm.html - [Sequential Modeling Enables Scalable Learning for Large Vision Models](https://x.com/YutongBAI1002/status/1731512082590478516?s=20) ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530948)) - "we define a common format, "visual sentences", in which we can represent raw images and videos as well as annotated data sources such as semantic segmentations and depth reconstructions without needing any meta-knowledge beyond the pixels." - [TextDiffuser-2: Unleashing the Power of Language Models for Text Rendering](https://jingyechen.github.io/textdiffuser2/) - solves text-in-images, including inpainting text - "Firstly, we fine-tune a large language model for layout planning. The large language model is capable of automatically generating keywords for text rendering and also supports layout modification through chatting. Secondly, we utilize the language model within the diffusion model to encode the position and texts at the line level. Unlike previous methods that employed tight character-level guidance, this approach generates more diverse text images." - [LLM360: Towards Fully Transparent Open-Source LLMs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06550) - Apache 2.0 licensed, includes a release of both the training data and intermediary checkpoints - We present LLM360, an initiative to fully open-source LLMs, which advocates for all training code and data, model checkpoints, and intermediate results to be made available to the community. The goal of LLM360 is to support open and collaborative AI research by making the end-to-end LLM training process transparent and reproducible by everyone. As a first step of LLM360, we release two 7B parameter LLMs pre-trained from scratch, Amber and CrystalCoder, including their training code, data, intermediate checkpoints, and analyses (at [this https URL](https://www.llm360.ai/)). - unum image captioning LLM https://x.com/altryne/status/1740451547572834434?s=46&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww - [GigaGPT: GPT-3 sized models in 565 lines of code](https://www.cerebras.net/blog/introducing-gigagpt-gpt-3-sized-models-in-565-lines-of-code) from Cerebras - last month's Animate Anyone project was extended to [Outfit Anyone]([https://humanaigc.github.io/outfit-anyone/](https://t.co/MjvDkpGS4h)) ([see video](https://twitter.com/minchoi/status/1735176374313202043?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww), [youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnNHcLdoxNk)). there is a [HF space](https://huggingface.co/spaces/HumanAIGC/OutfitAnyone) but nothing else seems to be released. ## open source tooling and projects - [Apple MLX](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38539153) - an array framework for Apple Silicon - It runs code natively on Apple Silicon with a single pip install and no other dependencies. - [follows the PyTorch API closely and provides many useful primitives right out of the box.](https://x.com/deliprao/status/1732250137416683523?s=20) - has [Whisper](https://twitter.com/reach_vb/status/1735034971507540211?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) and [Mixtral](https://t.co/75StzY5AHe) - LlamaIndex - [LlamaIndex launches Step-Wise Agent Execution](https://twitter.com/jerryjliu0/status/1736809589918904712?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww) - Decouple task creation from execution - Execute a task into individual step-wise components - View each step, upcoming steps, and (coming soon) directly modify intermediate steps with human feedback - [LlamaIndex Guide to 12+ ways to run open source models](https://levelup.gitconnected.com/10-ways-to-run-open-source-models-with-llamaindex-84fd4b45d0cf) in your app ([nice visual](https://twitter.com/jerryjliu0/status/1738947400507768961?s=12&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww)) - https://github.com/monoidspace/monoid **Turn your APIs into AI Agents** - 🔌 Plug and play with different LLMs and Agent Types with the click of a button - 📬 Postman-like interface for turning your APIs into Actions, where you can choose which parameters the Agent controls - 🏖️ Action Sandbox to "talk" to your API in natural language, where you can simulate an Agent who only has one Action - 🤖 Agent Sandbox to simulate and test your AI Agent before you deploy it - 🪆 Use Agents as Actions within other Agents, so that they can collaborate and solve more complex problems - 🤝 Action Hub and Agent Hub to allow the community to share its creations and build off each other's work - https://github.com/CopilotKit/CopilotKit - : Build in-app AI chatbots that can "see" the current app state + take action inside your app. The AI chatbot can talk to your app frontend & backend, and to 3rd party services (Salesforce, Dropbox, etc.) via plugins. - : AI-assisted text generation. Drop-in replacement for any