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NUWA-Infinity: Autoregressive over Autoregressive Generation for Infinite Visual Synthesis
Chenfei Wu, Jian Liang, Xiaowei Hu, Zhe Gan, JianFeng Wang, Lijuan Wang, Zicheng Liu, Yuejian Fang, Nan Duan
In this paper, we present NUWA-Infinity, a generative model for infinite visual synthesis, which is defined as the task of generating arbitrarily-sized high-resolution images or long-duration videos. An autoregressive over autoregressive generation mechanism is proposed to deal with this variable-size generation task, where a global patch-level autoregressive model considers the dependencies between patches, and a local token-level autoregressive model considers dependencies between visual tokens within each patch. A Nearby Context Pool (NCP) is introduced to cache-related patches already generated as the context for the current patch being generated, which can significantly save computation costs without sacrificing patch-level dependency modeling. An Arbitrary Direction Controller (ADC) is used to decide suitable generation orders for different visual synthesis tasks and learn order-aware positional embeddings. Compared to DALL-E, Imagen and Parti, NUWA-Infinity can generate high-resolution images with arbitrary sizes and support long-duration video generation additionally. Compared to NUWA, which also covers images and videos, NUWA-Infinity has superior visual synthesis capabilities in terms of resolution and variable-size generation. The GitHub link is https://github.com/microsoft/NUWA. The homepage link is https://nuwa-infinity.microsoft.com.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image Outpainting | LHQC | NUWA-Infinity w/o text | Block-FID (Right Extend) | 6.43 | #1 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Image Outpainting | LHQC | NUWA-Infinity w/o text | Block-FID (Down Extend) | 11.47 | #1 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Image Outpainting | LHQC | NUWA-Infinity w/o text | Block-FID (Left Extend) | 6.71 | #1 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Image Outpainting | LHQC | NUWA-Infinity w/o text | Block-FID (Up Extend) | 8.03 | #1 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Image Outpainting | LHQC | NUWA-Infinity | Block-FID (Right Extend) | 6.45 | #2 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Image Outpainting | LHQC | NUWA-Infinity | Block-FID (Down Extend) | 9.84 | #2 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Image Outpainting | LHQC | NUWA-Infinity | Block-FID (Left Extend) | 6.72 | #2 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Image Outpainting | LHQC | NUWA-Infinity | Block-FID (Up Extend) | 7.43 | #2 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Text-to-Image Generation | LHQC | NUWA-Infinity | Block-FID | 9.71 | #1 of 3 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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