MIminimaxir·Jul 20, 2022
The best open-source-but-actually-can-be-run-on-simple-infra analogous to DALL-E 2 is min-dalle: https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle
In DALL·E now available in betakuprel
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kuprel / min-dalle
min-dalle
min(DALL·E) is a fast, minimal port of DALL·E Mini to PyTorch
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What it is
min(DALL·E) is a fast, minimal port of DALL·E Mini to PyTorch
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| Jun 28 | 2022-06-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-29 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| Jun 29 | 2022-06-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 30 | 2022-06-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 1 | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2 | 2022-07-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 3 | 2022-07-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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What Hacker News says
9 sourcesAdditionally, it's also open-sourced on GitHub and can be self-hosted, with easy instructions to do so: https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle
In DALL·E now available in betaEverything in the notebook is open-source. It mainly uses the following projects:
https://github.com/neuml/txtai
https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle
txtai workflows can be containerized and run as a cloud serverless function - https://neuml.github.io/txtai/cloud/
In Show HN: Generate webpage summary images with DALL-E miniThis appears to have been fixed moments ago:
https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle/commit/38ebe54a382f36dc7...
In Show HN: I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to TorchRunning the "alien life" example from the README took 30 seconds on my M1 Max. I don't think it uses the GPU at all.
I couldn't get the "mega" option to work, I got an error "TypeError: lax.dynamic_update_slice requires arguments to have the same dtypes, got float32, float16" (looks like a known issue https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle/issues/2)
Edit: installing flax 0.4.2 fixes this issue, thank all!
In Show HN: I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to TorchSeems like there is a fix.
https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle/issues/1#issuecomment-11...
In Show HN: I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to TorchAlmost worked on my 2021 Macbook Pro (M1 Pro) - https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle/issues/1#issue-128676523...
In Show HN: I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to TorchShow HN: I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to Torch
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