ParaDiGMS: Parallel Diffusion Generative Model Sampler

This repository contains code for the paper:

Parallel Sampling of Diffusion Models
by Andy Shih, Suneel Belkhale, Stefano Ermon, Dorsa Sadigh, Nima Anari

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Update

ParaDiGMS has been integrated into Huggingface Diffusers! 🥳🎉

pip install diffusers==0.19.3

import torch
from diffusers import DDPMParallelScheduler
from diffusers import StableDiffusionParadigmsPipeline

scheduler = DDPMParallelScheduler.from_pretrained("runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5", subfolder="scheduler", timestep_spacing="trailing")
pipe = StableDiffusionParadigmsPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5", scheduler=scheduler, torch_dtype=torch.float16
)
pipe = pipe.to("cuda")
ngpu, batch_per_device = torch.cuda.device_count(), 5
pipe.wrapped_unet = torch.nn.DataParallel(pipe.unet, device_ids=[d for d in range(ngpu)])
prompt = "a photo of an astronaut riding a horse on mars"

image = pipe(prompt, parallel=ngpu * batch_per_device, num_inference_steps=1000).images[0]
image.save("image.png")

For best performance, use the improved parallel execution script implemented using torch multiprocessing.

python main_mp.py

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About

ParaDiGMs accelerates sampling of diffusion models without sacrificing quality by running denoising steps in parallel. ParaDiGMs is most useful when sampling with a large number of denoising steps on multiple GPUs, giving a 2-4x wallclock speedup.

Animation of Algorithm

Sample Images

Speedup of 1000-step DDPM on A100

Results on Image and Robotics Diffusion Models

Citation

If you find our work useful, consider citing:

@misc{shih2023paradigms,
    title = {Parallel Sampling of Diffusion Models},
    author={Shih, Andy and Belkhale, Suneel and Ermon, Stefano and Sadigh, Dorsa and Anari, Nima},
    publisher = {arXiv},
    year = {2023},
}