Text-to-Image GAN with Pretrained Representations

TL;DR

TIGER introduces a novel GAN architecture utilizing pretrained vision models and high-capacity fusion blocks to achieve faster, more accurate text-to-image synthesis, outperforming existing methods on standard and zero-shot tasks.

Contribution

The paper proposes TIGER, a text-to-image GAN with a vision-empowered discriminator and a high-capacity generator, enhancing performance and speed over prior models.

Findings

Achieves state-of-the-art FID scores on COCO and CUB datasets.

Demonstrates superior zero-shot synthesis with fewer parameters.

Faster inference compared to diffusion and autoregressive models.

Abstract

Generating desired images conditioned on given text descriptions has received lots of attention. Recently, diffusion models and autoregressive models have demonstrated their outstanding expressivity and gradually replaced GAN as the favored architectures for text-to-image synthesis. However, they still face some obstacles: slow inference speed and expensive training costs. To achieve more powerful and faster text-to-image synthesis under complex scenes, we propose TIGER, a text-to-image GAN with pretrained representations. To be specific, we propose a vision-empowered discriminator and a high-capacity generator. (i) The vision-empowered discriminator absorbs the complex scene understanding ability and the domain generalization ability from pretrained vision models to enhance model performance. Unlike previous works, we explore stacking multiple pretrained models in our discriminator to collect multiple different representations. (ii) The high-capacity generator aims to achieve effective text-image fusion while increasing the model capacity. The high-capacity generator consists of multiple novel high-capacity fusion blocks (HFBlock). And the HFBlock contains several deep fusion modules and a global fusion module, which play different roles to benefit our model. Extensive experiments demonstrate the outstanding performance of our proposed TIGER both on standard and zero-shot text-to-image synthesis tasks. On the standard text-to-image synthesis task, TIGER achieves state-of-the-art performance on two challenging datasets, which obtain a new FID 5.48 (COCO) and 9.38 (CUB). On the zero-shot text-to-image synthesis task, we achieve comparable performance with fewer model parameters, smaller training data size and faster inference speed. Additionally, more experiments and analyses are conducted in the Supplementary Material.