Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09841v2
• Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:56:10 GMT
• Title: Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis
• Authors: Patrick Esser and Robin Rombach and Bj\"orn Ommer
• Abstract summary: transformers are designed to learn long-range interactions on sequential data. They contain no inductive bias that prioritizes local interactions. This makes them expressive, but also computationally infeasible for long sequences, such as high-resolution images. We show how combining the effectiveness of the inductive bias of CNNs with the expressivity of transformers enables them to model and thereby synthesize high-resolution images.
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• Abstract: Designed to learn long-range interactions on sequential data, transformers continue to show state-of-the-art results on a wide variety of tasks. In contrast to CNNs, they contain no inductive bias that prioritizes local interactions. This makes them expressive, but also computationally infeasible for long sequences, such as high-resolution images. We demonstrate how combining the effectiveness of the inductive bias of CNNs with the expressivity of transformers enables them to model and thereby synthesize high-resolution images. We show how to (i) use CNNs to learn a context-rich vocabulary of image constituents, and in turn (ii) utilize transformers to efficiently model their composition within high-resolution images. Our approach is readily applied to conditional synthesis tasks, where both non-spatial information, such as object classes, and spatial information, such as segmentations, can control the generated image. In particular, we present the first results on semantically-guided synthesis of megapixel images with transformers. Project page at https://compvis.github.io/taming-transformers/ .

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