Ultra-fast generative visual intelligence model creates images in just 2 seconds

ETRI's researchers have unveiled a technology that combines generative AI and visual intelligence to create images from text inputs in just 2 seconds, propelling the field of ultra-fast generative visual intelligence.

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced the release of five types of models to the public. These include three models of 'KOALA,' which generate images from text inputs five times faster than existing methods, and two conversational visual-language models 'Ko-LLaVA' which can perform question-answering with images or videos.

The 'KOALA' model significantly reduced the parameters from 2.56B (2.56 billion) of the public SW model to 700M (700 million) using the knowledge distillation technique. A high number of parameters typically means more computations, leading to longer processing times and increased operational costs. The researchers reduced the model size by a third and improved the generation of high-resolution images to be twice as fast as before and five times faster compared to DALL-E 3.