ColossalAI/examples/tutorial/stable_diffusion

Handson 6: Acceleration of Stable Diffusion

Colosssal-AI provides a faster and lower cost solution for pretraining and fine-tuning for AIGC (AI-Generated Content) applications such as the model stable-diffusion from Stability AI.

We take advantage of Colosssal-AI to exploit multiple optimization strategies , e.g. data parallelism, tensor parallelism, mixed precision & ZeRO, to scale the training to multiple GPUs.

Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion is a latent text-to-image diffusion model. Thanks to a generous compute donation from Stability AI and support from LAION, we were able to train a Latent Diffusion Model on 512x512 images from a subset of the LAION-5B database. Similar to Google's Imagen, this model uses a frozen CLIP ViT-L/14 text encoder to condition the model on text prompts.

Stable Diffusion with Colossal-AI provides 6.5x faster training and pretraining cost saving, the hardware cost of fine-tuning can be almost 7X cheaper (from RTX3090/4090 24GB to RTX3050/2070 8GB).

Requirements

A suitable conda environment named ldm can be created and activated with:

conda env create -f environment.yaml
conda activate ldm

You can also update an existing latent diffusion environment by running

conda install pytorch torchvision -c pytorch
pip install transformers==4.19.2 diffusers invisible-watermark
pip install -e .

Install Colossal-AI v0.1.10 From Our Official Website

pip install colossalai==0.1.10+torch1.11cu11.3 -f https://release.colossalai.org

Install Lightning

We use the Sep. 2022 version with commit id as b04a7aa.

git clone https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning && cd lightning && git reset --hard b04a7aa
pip install -r requirements.txt && pip install .

The specified version is due to the interface incompatibility caused by the latest update of Lightning, which will be fixed in the near future.

Dataset

The DataSet is from LAION-5B, the subset of LAION, you should the change the data.file_path in the config/train_colossalai.yaml

Training

we provide the script train.sh to run the training task , and two Stategy in configs:train_colossalai.yaml, train_ddp.yaml

for example, you can run the training from colossalai by

python main.py --logdir /tmp -t --postfix test -b config/train_colossalai.yaml

• you can change the --logdir the save the log information and the last checkpoint

Training config

you can change the trainging config in the yaml file

• accelerator: acceleratortype, default 'gpu'
• devices: device number used for training, default 4
• max_epochs: max training epochs
• precision: usefp16 for training or not, default 16, you must use fp16 if you want to apply colossalai

Comments

• Our codebase for the diffusion models builds heavily on OpenAI's ADM codebase , lucidrains, Stable Diffusion, Lightning and Hugging Face. Thanks for open-sourcing!

• The implementation of the transformer encoder is from x-transformers by lucidrains.

• The implementation of flash attention is from HazyResearch.

BibTeX

@article{bian2021colossal,
  title={Colossal-AI: A Unified Deep Learning System For Large-Scale Parallel Training},
  author={Bian, Zhengda and Liu, Hongxin and Wang, Boxiang and Huang, Haichen and Li, Yongbin and Wang, Chuanrui and Cui, Fan and You, Yang},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14883},
  year={2021}
}
@misc{rombach2021highresolution,
  title={High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models},
  author={Robin Rombach and Andreas Blattmann and Dominik Lorenz and Patrick Esser and Björn Ommer},
  year={2021},
  eprint={2112.10752},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.CV}
}
@article{dao2022flashattention,
  title={FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness},
  author={Dao, Tri and Fu, Daniel Y. and Ermon, Stefano and Rudra, Atri and R{\'e}, Christopher},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.14135},
  year={2022}
}