No changes to code. People have asked if they can tip me for working on this for free. In light of a new employment opportunity, I am now accepting donations -- not here, but I will match any donation made to The Okra Project (https://www.artsbusinesscollaborative.org/fiscal-sponsorship/okra-project) up to $5000 annually. The donation match will start in June 2022 and will count retroactively towards any donations made from the date of this update.
Added setting in diffusion method for enabling gradient checkpointing, which saves VRAM but takes longer to compute images (useful if you're having memory issues, or trying to load a heavy model)
Removed some informal text
Version 1.5.3
To make room for new notebooks I am forking from the S2ML Image Generator (neé S2ML Art Generator), the repo has been renamed to S2ML-Generators
S2ML Art Generator renamed to S2ML Image Generator
Keep an eye out for the S2ML Video Generator
Version 1.5.2
CLIP-Guided diffusion method now allows for a variable number of steps.
Version 1.5.1
Name change! Since this notebook contains methods which aren't constrained specifically to utilized GANs (generative adversarial networks), a new name has been chosen: S2ML Art Generator! Future tools which are in development will carry the S2ML prefix so long as those tools leverage machine learning, in order to build out the S2ML ecosystem.
Version 1.5.0
September 21, 2021
Removed ISR for image upscaling and replaced it with an ESRGAN implementation
Added the ability to upscale a folder of images or a single target image
Added the option to generate a video using ffmpeg using either default outputs or upscaled image sequence ({abs_root_path}/ESRGAN/results/ directory)
Fixed some markdown issues, removed bad wording from older notebooks
Added a block to delete all generated output for advanced troubleshooting & tidy-ness
Version 1.4.0
September 4, 2021
Fixed CLIP-guided diffusion method
Exposed new CLIP model selection for both VQGAN+CLIP and diffusion methods
Removed excess instructional text ahead of Wiki launch
Added the ability to generate a video regardless of method
Exposed new parameters in the Generate a Video block
Version 1.3.0
August 30, 2021
Moved changelog to README.md
VQGAN+CLIP and CLIP-guided diffusion blocks are now separate.
Parameters and Execution blocks merged into single blocks.
Fixed potential "interestingness" bug with VQGAN+CLIP method
Exposed four new experimental/advanced parameters for fine-tuning VQGAN+CLIP method
Updating ffmpeg block in 1.3.1 to work with CLIP-guided diffusion method, started fixing this in 1.3.0
Version 1.2.3
August 26, 2021
Bug Fixes
Added "VQGAN Classic" link to older notebook (legacy copy) at the top of the updated notebook
Version 1.2.2
August 23, 2021
Bug Fixes
Version 1.2.1
August 22, 2021
Fixed issues with temp filesystem not importing os, causing errors when not using Google Drive
Removed Wikiart 1024 dataset because the hosting provider went offline
Fixed ImageNet datasets to use new hosting provider
Version 1.2.0
August 21, 2021
Bug Fixes
Version 1.1.2
August 18, 2021
Forked notebook from the original copy
Integrated Katherine Crowson's CLIP-guided diffusion method as a secondary mode to the notebook
Removed automatic video naming and exposed it as a parameter instead.