ECT: Consistency Models Made Easy

Pytorch implementation for Easy Consistency Tuning (ECT).

ECT unlocks SoTA few-step generative abilities through a simple yet principled approach. With just a negligible tuning cost, ECT demonstrates promising early results while benefiting from the scaling in training FLOPs to continuously enhance its few-step generation capability.

Try your own Consistency Models! You only need to fine-tune a bit. :D

⭐ Update ⭐

Baking more in the oven. 🙃

• 2024.04.27 - Upgrade environment to Pytorch 2.3.0.
• 2024.04.12 - ECMs can now surpass SoTA GANs using 1 model step and SoTA Diffusion Models using 2 model steps on CIFAR10. Checkpoints available.

Environment

You can run the following command to set up the Python environment through conda. Pytorch 2.3.0 and Python 3.9.18 will be installed.

conda env create -f env.yml

Datasets

Prepare the dataset to the EDM's format. See a reference here.

Training

Run the following command to run ECT at batch size 128 and 200k iterations. NGPUs=2/4 is recommended.

bash run_ecm.sh <NGPUs> <PORT> --desc bs128.200k

Replace NGPUs and PORT with the number of GPUs used for training and the port number for DDP sync.

Evaluation

Run the following command to calculate FID of a pretrained checkpoint.

bash eval_ecm.sh <NGPUs> <PORT> --resume <CKPT_PATH> 

Generative Performance

FID Evaluation

Taking the models trained by ECT as ECM, we compare ECMs' unconditional image generation capabilities with SoTA generative models on the CIFAR10 dataset, including popular diffusion models w/ advanced samplers, diffusion distillations, and consistency models on the CIFAR10 dataset.

Method	FID	NFE	Model	Params	Batch Size	Schedule
Score SDE	2.38	2000	NCSN++	56.4M	128	~1600k
Score SDE-deep	2.20	2000	NCSN++ (2 $\times$ depth)	> 100M	128	~1600k
EDM	2.01	35	DDPM++	56.4M	512	400k
PD	8.34	1	DDPM++	56.4M	512	800k
Diff-Instruct	4.53	1	DDPM++	56.4M	512	800k
CD (LPIPS)	3.55	1	NCSN++	56.4M	512	800k
CD (LPIPS)	2.93	2	NCSN++	56.4M	512	800k
iCT-deep	2.51	1	NCSN++ (2 $\times$ depth)	> 100M	1024	400k
iCT-deep	2.24	2	NCSN++ (2 $\times$ depth)	> 100M	1024	400k
ECM (100k)	4.54	1	DDPM++	55.7M	128	100k
ECM (200k)	3.86	1	DDPM++	55.7M	128	200k
ECM (400k)	3.60	1	DDPM++	55.7M	128	400k
ECM (100k)	2.20	2	DDPM++	55.7M	128	100k
ECM (200k)	2.15	2	DDPM++	55.7M	128	200k
ECM (400k)	2.11	2	DDPM++	55.7M	128	400k

$\mathrm{FD}_{\text{DINOv2}}$ Evaluation

Since DINOv2 could produce evaluation better aligned with human vision, we evaluate the image fidelity using Fréchet Distance in the latent space of SoTA open-source representation model DINOv2, denoted as $\mathrm{FD}_{\text{DINOv2}}$.

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Using dgm-eval, we have $\mathrm{FD}_{\text{DINOv2}}$ against SoTA Diffusion Models and GANs.

Method	$\mathrm{FD}_{\text{DINOv2}}$	NFE
EDM	145.20	35
StyleGAN-XL	204.60	1
ECM	198.51	1
ECM	128.63	2

Even without combining with other generative mechanisms like GANs or diffusion distillation like Score Distillation, ECT is capable of generating high-quality samples much faster than SoTA diffusion models and much better than SoTA GANs SoTA Diffusion Models and GANs.

Checkpoints

More checkpoints will be available later.

• CIFAR10 $\mathrm{FD}_{\text{DINOv2}}$ checkpoint.

Contact

Please drop me an email at zhengyanggeng@gmail.com if you'd like to train models together!!!

Feel free to contact me if you have additional questions or have interests in collaboration. Find me at Twitter or WeChat. :D

Citation

@misc{ect,
    title  = {Consistency Models Made Easy},
    author = {Geng, Zhengyang and Luo, William and Pokle, Ashwini and Kolter, Zico},
    year   = {2024},
    url    = {https://gsunshine.notion.site/Consistency-Models-Made-Easy-954205c0b4a24c009f78719f43b419cc?pvs=4}
}