VQGAN-CLIP-Docker

• Setup
• Usage
  • Inference
  • Training
• Acknowledgments
• Citations

About

Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation VQGAN+CLIP Dockerized

This is a stripped and minimal dependencies repository for running locally or in production VQGAN+CLIP.

For a Google Colab notebook see the original repository.

Samples

Setup

Clone this repository and cd inside.

git clone https://github.com/kcosta42/VQGAN-CLIP-Docker.git
cd VQGAN-CLIP-Docker

You can download a pretrained VQGAN model and put it in the ./models folder.

Dataset	Link	Config
ImageNet (f=16), 16384	vqgan_imagenet_f16_16384.ckpt	./configs/models/vqgan_imagenet_f16_16384.json
ImageNet (f=16), 1024	vqgan_imagenet_f16_1024.ckpt	./configs/models/vqgan_imagenet_f16_1024.json
FacesHQ (f=16)	vqgan_faceshq_f16_1024.ckpt	./configs/models/vqgan_faceshq_f16_1024.json
COCO-Stuff (f=16)	vqgan_coco_f16_8192.ckpt	./configs/models/vqgan_coco_f16_8192.json

For GPU capability, make sure you have CUDA installed on your system (tested with CUDA 11.1+).

• 6 GB of VRAM is required to generate 256x256 images.
• 11 GB of VRAM is required to generate 512x512 images.
• 24 GB of VRAM is required to generate 1024x1024 images. (Untested)

Local

Install the Python requirements

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

To know if you can run this on your GPU, the following command must return True.

python3 -c "import torch; print(torch.cuda.is_available());"

Docker

Make sure you have docker and docker-compose v1.28.0+ installed. nvidia-docker is needed if you want to run this on your GPU through Docker.

A Makefile is provided for ease of use.

make build  # Build the docker image

Usage

Inference

Two configuration files are provided ./configs/local.json and ./configs/docker.json. They are ready to go, but you may want to edit them to meet your need. Check the Configuration section to understand each field.

By default, the resulting generations can be found in the ./outputs folder.

GPU

To run locally:

python3 -m scripts.generate -c ./configs/local.json

To run on docker:

make generate

CPU

To run locally:

DEVICE=cpu python3 -m scripts.generate -c ./configs/local.json

To run on docker:

make generate-cpu

Configuration

Argument	Type	Descriptions
prompts	List[str]	Text prompts
image_prompts	List[FilePath]	Image prompts / target image path
max_iterations	int	Number of iterations
save_freq	int	Save image iterations
size	[int, int]	Image size (width height)
pixelart	[int, int]	Pixelart image size (width height) (Optional, remove option to disable)
init_image	FilePath	Initial image
init_noise	str	Initial noise image ["gradient","pixels","fractal"]
init_weight	float	Initial weight
mse_decay_rate	int	Slowly decrease the MSE Loss each specified iterations until it reach about 0
output_dir	FilePath	Path to output directory
models_dir	FilePath	Path to models cache directory
clip_model	FilePath	CLIP model path or name
vqgan_checkpoint	FilePath	VQGAN checkpoint path
vqgan_config	FilePath	VQGAN config path
noise_prompt_seeds	List[int]	Noise prompt seeds
noise_prompt_weights	List[float]	Noise prompt weights
step_size	float	Learning rate
cutn	int	Number of cuts
cut_pow	float	Cut power
seed	int	Seed (-1 for random seed)
optimizer	str	Optimiser ["Adam","AdamW","Adagrad","Adamax","DiffGrad","AdamP","RAdam"]
nwarm_restarts	int	Number of time the learning rate is reseted (-1 to disable LR decay)
augments	List[str]	Enabled augments ["Ji","Sh","Gn","Pe","Ro","Af","Et","Ts","Cr","Er","Re","Hf"]

Training

These are instructions to train a new VQGAN model. You can also finetunes the pretrained models but you may need to tweak the training script.

Two models configuration files are provided ./configs/models/vqgan_custom.json and ./configs/models/vqgan_custom_docker.json. They are ready to go, but you may want to edit them to meet your need. Check the Model Configuration to understand each field.

By default, the models are saved in the ./models/checkpoints folder.

Dataset

Put your image in a folder inside the data directory (./data by default).

The dataset must be structured as follow:

./data/
├── class_x/
│   ├── xxx.png
│   ├── xxy.jpg
│   └── ...
│       └── xxz.ppm
└── class_y/
    ├── 123.bmp
    ├── nsdf3.tif
    └── ...
    └── asd932_.webp

GPU

To run locally:

python3 -m scripts.train -c ./configs/models/vqgan_custom.json

To run on docker:

make train

CPU

To run locally:

DEVICE=cpu python3 -m scripts.train -c ./configs/models/vqgan_custom.json

To run on docker:

make train-cpu

Model Configuration

Argument	Type	Descriptions
base_learning_rate	float	Initial Learning rate
batch_size	int	Batch size (Adjust based on your GPU capability)
epochs	int	Maximum number of epoch
output_dir	FilePath	Path to directory where to save training images
models_dir	FilePath	Path to directory where to save the model
data_dir	FilePath	Path to data directory
seed	int	Seed (-1 for random seed)
resume_checkpoint	FilePath	Path to pretrained model

Infos

• Let the Generator train without the Discriminator for a few epochs (~3-5 epochs for ImageNet), then enable the Discriminator.
  The variable lossconfig.params.disc_start correspond to the number of global step (ie. batch iterations) before enabling the Discriminator.
• Once enabled, the Discriminator loss will stagnate around ~1.0, this is a normal behaviour. The loss will decrease in later epochs. (It can take a very long time).
• If you've enabled the Discriminator too soon, the Generator will take a lot more time to train.
• Basically there is no rules for the number of epochs. If your dataset is large enough, there is no risk of overfitting. So the more you train, the better.

Acknowledgments

VQGAN+CLIP

Taming Transformers

CLIP

DALLE-PyTorch

Citations

@misc{unpublished2021clip,
    title  = {CLIP: Connecting Text and Images},
    author = {Alec Radford, Ilya Sutskever, Jong Wook Kim, Gretchen Krueger, Sandhini Agarwal},
    year   = {2021}
}

@misc{esser2020taming,
      title={Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis},
      author={Patrick Esser and Robin Rombach and Björn Ommer},
      year={2020},
      eprint={2012.09841},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

@misc{ramesh2021zeroshot,
    title   = {Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation},
    author  = {Aditya Ramesh and Mikhail Pavlov and Gabriel Goh and Scott Gray and Chelsea Voss and Alec Radford and Mark Chen and Ilya Sutskever},
    year    = {2021},
    eprint  = {2102.12092},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    primaryClass = {cs.CV}
}