[imagegen][ot][wrongish] RU outdid OpenAI, Research community stepping up

[coderman]

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On Tuesday, January 4, 2022 8:50 PM, k <gmkarl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Automated Image Generation
> ...
> All of sudden, Russia comes in and releases a public model that at a
> biased glance looks like somebody just threw a goldmine at it. The
> encouraged way to use it is to visit a site in russian with javascript
> and captchas: https://huggingface.co/sberbank-ai/rudalle-Malevich


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Training the ruDALL-E neural networks on the Christofari cluster has become the largest calculation task in Russia:

    - ruDALL-E Kandinsky (XXL) was trained for 37 days on the 512 GPU TESLA V100, and then also for 11 more days on the 128 GPU TESLA V100, for a total of 20,352 GPU-days;
    - ruDALL-E Malevich (XL) was trained for 8 days on the 128 GPU TESLA V100, and then also for 15 more days on the 192 GPU TESLA V100, for a total of 3,904 GPU-days.

Accordingly, training for both models totalled 24,256 GPU-days.
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you can see why complex models are the domain of big business, government, and research institutions... lots of compute required!

best regards,