Lately, diffusion fashions have proven nice success in text-to-image era, attaining excessive picture high quality, improved inference efficiency, and increasing our artistic inspiration. Nonetheless, it’s nonetheless difficult to effectively management the era, particularly with circumstances which can be tough to explain with textual content.

At the moment, we announce MediaPipe diffusion plugins, which allow controllable text-to-image era to be run on-device. Increasing upon our prior work on GPU inference for on-device massive generative fashions, we introduce new low-cost options for controllable text-to-image era that may be plugged into current diffusion fashions and their Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) variants.

Textual content-to-image era with management plugins working on-device.

Background

With diffusion fashions, picture era is modeled as an iterative denoising course of. Ranging from a noise picture, at every step, the diffusion mannequin step by step denoises the picture to disclose a picture of the goal idea. Analysis exhibits that leveraging language understanding by way of textual content prompts can tremendously enhance picture era. For text-to-image era, the textual content embedding is linked to the mannequin by way of cross-attention layers. But, some data is tough to explain by textual content prompts, e.g., the place and pose of an object. To deal with this drawback, researchers add extra fashions into the diffusion to inject management data from a situation picture.

Widespread approaches for managed text-to-image era embrace Plug-and-Play, ControlNet, and T2I Adapter. Plug-and-Play applies a broadly used denoising diffusion implicit mannequin (DDIM) inversion method that reverses the era course of ranging from an enter picture to derive an preliminary noise enter, after which employs a duplicate of the diffusion mannequin (860M parameters for Secure Diffusion 1.5) to encode the situation from an enter picture. Plug-and-Play extracts spatial options with self-attention from the copied diffusion, and injects them into the text-to-image diffusion. ControlNet creates a trainable copy of the encoder of a diffusion mannequin, which connects by way of a convolution layer with zero-initialized parameters to encode conditioning data that’s conveyed to the decoder layers. Nevertheless, because of this, the scale is massive, half that of the diffusion mannequin (430M parameters for Secure Diffusion 1.5). T2I Adapter is a smaller community (77M parameters) and achieves related results in controllable era. T2I Adapter solely takes the situation picture as enter, and its output is shared throughout all diffusion iterations. But, the adapter mannequin just isn’t designed for transportable gadgets.

The MediaPipe diffusion plugins

To make conditioned era environment friendly, customizable, and scalable, we design the MediaPipe diffusion plugin as a separate community that’s:

• Plugable: It may be simply linked to a pre-trained base mannequin.
• Skilled from scratch: It doesn’t use pre-trained weights from the bottom mannequin.
• Transportable: It runs exterior the bottom mannequin on cell gadgets, with negligible value in comparison with the bottom mannequin inference.

The MediaPipe diffusion plugin is a transportable on-device mannequin for text-to-image era. It extracts multiscale options from a conditioning picture, that are added to the encoder of a diffusion mannequin at corresponding ranges. When connecting to a text-to-image diffusion mannequin, the plugin mannequin can present an additional conditioning sign to the picture era. We design the plugin community to be a light-weight mannequin with solely 6M parameters. It makes use of depth-wise convolutions and inverted bottlenecks from MobileNetv2 for quick inference on cell gadgets.

Overview of the MediaPipe diffusion mannequin plugin. The plugin is a separate community, whose output will be plugged right into a pre-trained text-to-image era mannequin. Options extracted by the plugin are utilized to the related downsampling layer of the diffusion mannequin (blue).

In contrast to ControlNet, we inject the identical management options in all diffusion iterations. That’s, we solely run the plugin as soon as for one picture era, which saves computation. We illustrate some intermediate outcomes of a diffusion course of under. The management is efficient at each diffusion step and permits managed era even at early steps. Extra iterations enhance the alignment of the picture with the textual content immediate and generate extra element.

Illustration of the era course of utilizing the MediaPipe diffusion plugin.

Examples

On this work, we developed plugins for a diffusion-based text-to-image era mannequin with MediaPipe Face Landmark, MediaPipe Holistic Landmark, depth maps, and Canny edge. For every process, we choose about 100K pictures from a web-scale image-text dataset, and compute management alerts utilizing corresponding MediaPipe options. We use refined captions from PaLI for coaching the plugins.

Face Landmark

The MediaPipe Face Landmarker process computes 478 landmarks (with consideration) of a human face. We use the drawing utils in MediaPipe to render a face, together with face contour, mouth, eyes, eyebrows, and irises, with completely different colours. The next desk exhibits randomly generated samples by conditioning on face mesh and prompts. As a comparability, each ControlNet and Plugin can management text-to-image era with given circumstances.

Face-landmark plugin for text-to-image era, in contrast with ControlNet.

Holistic Landmark

MediaPipe Holistic Landmarker process contains landmarks of physique pose, palms, and face mesh. Under, we generate numerous stylized pictures by conditioning on the holistic options.

Holistic-landmark plugin for text-to-image era.

Depth

Depth-plugin for text-to-image era.

Canny Edge

Canny-edge plugin for text-to-image era.

Analysis

We conduct a quantitative research of the face landmark plugin to display the mannequin’s efficiency. The analysis dataset comprises 5K human pictures. We evaluate the era high quality as measured by the broadly used metrics, Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) and CLIP scores. The bottom mannequin is a pre-trained text-to-image diffusion mannequin. We use Secure Diffusion v1.5 right here.

As proven within the following desk, each ControlNet and the MediaPipe diffusion plugin produce a lot better pattern high quality than the bottom mannequin, by way of FID and CLIP scores. In contrast to ControlNet, which must run at each diffusion step, the MediaPipe plugin solely runs as soon as for every picture generated. We measured the efficiency of the three fashions on a server machine (with Nvidia V100 GPU) and a cell phone (Galaxy S23). On the server, we run all three fashions with 50 diffusion steps, and on cell, we run 20 diffusion steps utilizing the MediaPipe picture era app. In contrast with ControlNet, the MediaPipe plugin exhibits a transparent benefit in inference effectivity whereas preserving the pattern high quality.

We take a look at the efficiency of the plugin on a variety of cell gadgets from mid-tier to high-end. We record the outcomes on some consultant gadgets within the following desk, overlaying each Android and iOS.

Conclusion

On this work, we current MediaPipe, a transportable plugin for conditioned text-to-image era. It injects options extracted from a situation picture to a diffusion mannequin, and consequently controls the picture era. Transportable plugins will be linked to pre-trained diffusion fashions working on servers or gadgets. By working text-to-image era and plugins totally on-device, we allow extra versatile purposes of generative AI.

Acknowledgments

We’d prefer to thank all staff members who contributed to this work: Raman Sarokin and Juhyun Lee for the GPU inference answer; Khanh LeViet, Chuo-Ling Chang, Andrei Kulik, and Matthias Grundmann for management. Particular because of Jiuqiang Tang, Joe Zou and Lu wang, who made this know-how and all of the demos working on-device.