What changed
A conditioned latent-patch transformer backbone with adaLN-Zero and controlledsize/patch ablations broadens diffusion architectural options while retaining establisheddiffusion/VAE/ViT methods.
Scientific scope
A conditioned latent-patch transformer backbone with adaLN-Zero and controlledsize/patch ablations broadens diffusion architectural options while retaining establisheddiffusion/VAE/ViT methods. The work replaces the stated image-diffusion backbone with a transformer and evaluates scaling under specified training, data and guidance settings. Reported compute/quality correlations are not a universal scaling law or guarantee across all modalities. Data preparation, autoencoding and sampling costs remain. WRS has not independently replayed the experiments.
Evidence
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Contributors
- William Peebles · SCIENCE: Original source-listed scientific author of this scoped work; byline does not determine effort fractions.
- Saining Xie · SCIENCE: Original source-listed scientific author of this scoped work; byline does not determine effort fractions.
- Peebles and Xie, Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers; CVF ICCV 2023 acceptedpaper
- Di T official ICCV 2023 supplement: implementation, complete model/decoder tables andsamplecaptions
- Officialar Xiv Di T title/byline and 2022 first/2023 revision history
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