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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>UFOGen: You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2311.09257/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2311.09257/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>UFOGen: You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs — mentioned by ollin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39211885</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2311.09257:39211885</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 01:34:07 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;some points that stood out to me: 1. they made a lot of careful tweaks to the unet network architecture - it seems like they ran many different ablations here (&amp;quot;In total, our endeavor consumes approximately 512 TPUs spanning 30 days&amp;quot;). 2. the model distillation is based on previous UFOGen work from the same team https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09257 (hence the UFO graphic in the diffusion-gan diagram) 3. they train their own 8-channel latent encoder / decoder (&amp;quot;VAE&amp;quot;) from scratch (similar to Meta&amp;#x27;s Emu paper) instead of using the SD VAEs like many other papers do 4. they use an internal dataset of…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2311.09257/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CV</category></item><item><title>UFOGen: You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs — mentioned by GaggiX</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38659181</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2311.09257:38659181</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 21:42:07 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Running SD v1.5 using one single step is faster than sampling with GigaGAN and you can achieve better coherency in my opinion: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09257 Then it does make more sense to run this on a raspberry pi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2311.09257/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CV</category></item></channel></rss>
