DALL-E mini explained | min(DALL-E) | Craiyon | ML Coding Series

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❤️ Become The AI Epiphany Patreon ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Join our Discord community 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE In the 6th video of the ML coding series I start explaining the DALL-E mini project - the open-source implementation of DALL-E. I start with its minimal port into PyTorch called min(DALL-E). I first give you the necessary context by walking you through the VQ-GAN, BART, GLU, and DALL-E papers as well as the Weights & Biases report on DALL-E mini, and then I dig into the actual code! Let me know how you like this video! ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ✅ min-dalle code: https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle My previous relevant videos: ✅ VQ-GAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2PXES-liuc ✅ VQ-VAE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZFVUrYcig0 ✅ DALL-E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMqLTPcA9CQ ✅ Weights & Biases DALL-E mini report: https://wandb.ai/dalle-mini/dalle-mini/reports/DALL-E-Mini-Explained-with-Demo--Vmlldzo4NjIxODA ✅ Rivers Have Wings tweet: https://twitter.com/RiversHaveWings/status/1478093658716966912 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⌚️ Timetable: 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:12 VQGAN overview 00:08:42 Conditioning in VQGAN 00:14:00 BART transformer 00:18:25 DALL-E 1 overview 00:24:13 DALL-E mini Weights & Biases report 00:30:35 [code] min-dalle 00:34:23 Text tokenizer 00:41:50 BART encoder 00:44:22 GLU explained (paper + code) 00:51:22 BART decoder 00:58:35 Image latent vector autoregressive generation 01:05:10 Super conditioning, top-k sampling 01:09:53 VQGAN decoder 01:15:05 Outro ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💰 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 Huge thank you to these AI Epiphany patreons: Eli Mahler Petar Veličković ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💼 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksagordic/ 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/gordic_aleksa 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Discord - https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE 📺 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEpiphany/ 📚 Medium - https://gordicaleksa.medium.com/ 💻 GitHub - https://github.com/gordicaleksa 📢 AI Newsletter - https://aiepiphany.substack.com/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ #dallemini #imagesynthesis #mindalle

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