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DALL-E Mini – Generate images from a text prompt

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Re: DALL-E Mini – Generate images from a text prompt

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Are there different variants of DALL-E Mini? Running prompts through both this version and the one hosted on huggingface gives noticeably different results. The one on huggingface seems to give more accurate responses.

Yes there is a few different model variations is what I’ve heard

Re: DALL-E Mini – Generate images from a text prompt

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Which prompts have you tried? I have no idea which prompts to even input to get unrecognizable blobs intentionally. Spent all evening yesterday having fun as me and my friends tried all sorts of inputs, including pretty specific/obscure ones (but we also did plenty of rather vague and generic inputs as well). Not even once we got unrecognizable blobs. Sometimes we got results that were more on the van gogh side rathe…

I tried "a boy standing in front of a house", then "a girl standing in front of a house". Both results would make good surrealist paintings, but they weren't even close to what I would expect from the regular DALL-E images I've seen.

Oh, if you were expecting something like the images produced by the original DALL-E, then I totally agree with you, DALL-E Mini doesn't get even close to that level.

My guess is that it is be due to the combination of it being a "DALL-E Lite" model overall and (most significantly) only running for ~150 iterations max (using the website linked in the OP). ~150 iterations is way too few iterations to get something approaching the type of images you've seen from the original DALL-E

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