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This is a minimal implementation of Boris Dayma's [DALL·E Mini](https://github.com/borisdayma/dalle-mini). It has been stripped to the bare essentials necessary for doing inference, and converted to PyTorch. To run the torch model, the only third party dependencies are numpy and torch.
Run either `sh setup_torch.sh` or `sh setup_flax.sh` to install dependencies and download pretrained models. The torch models can be manually downloaded [here](https://huggingface.co/kuprel/min-dalle/tree/main).
Use the python script `image_from_text.py` to generate images from the command line. Note: the command line script loads the models and parameters each time. To load a model once and generate multiple times, initialize either `MinDalleTorch` or `MinDalleFlax`, then call `generate_image` with some text and a seed. See the colab for an example.