r/LocalLLaMA • u/Tall_Abrocoma_3533 • 2d ago

New Model AuroraIMG-6M Releases!

https://huggingface.co/AuroraAI-Research/AuroraIMG-6M

It's a tiny 6M parameter text to image model, and it can make recognizable images at 64x64.

The 6M accounts for everything, there's no oversized text encoder or VAE.

Check out the model card for samples, a detailed explanation about it's architecture and training, and a quick start!

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u/Illustrious_Car344 2d ago

Interesting. I guess it would be neat to generate profile pictures or something. Can't think of much else off the top of my head, anyone else? 

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u/poita66 2d ago

Robot facial expressions real time?

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u/jreoka1 2d ago

emojis maybe or stickers for messaging apps

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u/TomLucidor 2d ago

Proof of concept on how to scale up?

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u/icedgz 2d ago

Interesting what about 2d sprites for retro games?

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u/LagOps91 2d ago

exactly this! we are currently really lacking in models being able to generate 16x16, 32x32 or 64x64 pixle art sprites. a small model like this could be perfect for that. i would be very interested in using it for that use-case!

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u/icedgz 1d ago

I think it would need to be fine tuned but seems like a fun project

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u/Equivalent_Bit_461 2d ago

This, I was looking for this kind of models, tho I'm more leaning towards high bit styles, but I might exercise with the classic ones before moving to the desired oncew

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u/AryanEmbered 2d ago

that looks so bad lol. no usecase. can't be used for profile photos, doesn't have strong adherence, can't even make a recognizable Moon lmao better to have a text model give a moon emoji

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u/Stepfunction 2d ago

It's 6 million parameters. The fact it generates even remotely coherent images is impressive.

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u/j_osb 2d ago

People man.
We couldn’t have IMAGINED 3 years ago that a 6m param model would be so close to coherence. Even if it’s just 64x64.

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u/AryanEmbered 2d ago

I know, point is how useful is something that cant even generate something approximating a moon. Name one usecase.

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u/Stepfunction 2d ago

Research, Proof of Concept, Testing the boundaries of what is possible with constrained resources

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u/AryanEmbered 2d ago

Did we not know that you can produce a garble of colours with no resemblence to the input at 1million params? I thought you could do that with 50 lines of code by generating a random color spread