DALL-E: Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation | Paper Explained

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❤️ Become The AI Epiphany Patreon ❤️ ► https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany In this video I cover DALL-E or "Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation" paper by OpenAI team. They train a VQ-VAE to learn compressed image representations and then they train an autoregressive transformer on top of that discrete latent space and BPEd text. The model learns to combine distinct concepts in a plausible way, image to image capabilities emerge, etc. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ✅ Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12092 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⌚️ Timetable: 00:00 What is DALL-E? 03:25 VQ-VAE blur problems 05:15 transformers, transformers, transformers! 07:10 Stage 1 and Stage 2 explained 07:30 Stage 1 VQ-VAE recap 10:00 Stage 2 autoregressive transformer 10:45 Some notes on ELBO 13:05 VQ-VAE modifications 17:20 Stage 2 in-depth 23:00 Results 24:25 Engineering, engineering, engineering 25:40 Automatic filtering via CLIP 27:40 More results 32:00 Additional image to image translation examples ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💰 BECOME A PATREON OF THE AI EPIPHANY ❤️ If these videos, GitHub projects, and blogs help you, consider helping me out by supporting me on Patreon! The AI Epiphany ► https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany One-time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/theaiepiphany Much love! ❤️ Huge thank you to these AI Epiphany patreons: Eli Mahler Petar Veličković Zvonimir Sabljic ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💡 The AI Epiphany is a channel dedicated to simplifying the field of AI using creative visualizations and in general, a stronger focus on geometrical and visual intuition, rather than the algebraic and numerical "intuition". ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 👋 CONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIAL LinkedIn ► https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksagordic/ Twitter ► https://twitter.com/gordic_aleksa Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/aiepiphany/ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/aiepiphany/ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 JOIN OUR DISCORD COMMUNITY: Discord ► https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE 📢 SUBSCRIBE TO MY MONTHLY AI NEWSLETTER: Substack ► https://aiepiphany.substack.com/ 💻 FOLLOW ME ON GITHUB FOR COOL PROJECTS: GitHub ► https://github.com/gordicaleksa 📚 FOLLOW ME ON MEDIUM: Medium ► https://gordicaleksa.medium.com/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ #dalle #openai #generativemodeling

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