Q-Diffusion: Quantizing Diffusion Models [website] [paper]

Q-diffusion is able to quantize full-precision unconditional diffusion models into 4-bit while maintaining comparable performance (small FID change of at most 2.34 compared to >100 for traditional PTQ) in a training-free manner.

Our approach can also be plugged into text-guided image generation, where we run stable diffusion in 4-bit weights and achieve high generation quality for the first time.

This repository provides the official implementation for Q-Diffusion inference with calibrated (simulated) quantized checkpoints. The calibration code will be released in the future.

Overview

Diffusion models have achieved significant success in image synthesis by iteratively estimating noise using deep neural networks. However, the slow inference and the memory and computational intensity of the noise estimation model hinder the efficient implementation of diffusion models. Although post-training quantization (PTQ) is considered a go-to compression method for other tasks, it does not work seamlessly with diffusion models. We propose a novel PTQ method specifically designed for the unique multi-timestep pipeline and model architecture of diffusion models, which compresses the noise estimation network to accelerate the generation process. We identify the primary challenge of diffusion model quantization as the changing output distributions of noise estimation networks over multiple time steps and the bimodal activation distribution of the shortcut layers within the noise estimation network. We address these challenges with timestep-aware calibration and split shortcut quantization in this work.

Getting Started

Installation

Clone this repository, and then create and activate a suitable conda environment named qdiff by using the following command:

git clone /~https://github.com/Xiuyu-Li/q-diffusion.git
cd q-diffusion
conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate qdiff

Usage

1. For Latent Diffusion and Stable Diffusion experiments, first download relvant checkpoints following the instructions in the latent-diffusion and stable-diffusion repos from CompVis. We currently use sd-v1-4.ckpt for Stable Diffusion.

2. Download quantized checkpoints from the Google Drive [link]. The checkpoints quantized with 4/8-bit weights-only quantization are the same as the ones with 4/8-bit weights and 8-bit activations quantization.

3. Then use the following commands to run inference scripts with quantized checkpoints:

# CIFAR-10 (DDIM)
# 4/8-bit weights-only
python scripts/sample_diffusion_ddim.py --config configs/cifar10.yml --use_pretrained --timesteps 100 --eta 0 --skip_type quad --ptq --weight_bit <4 or 8> --quant_mode qdiff --split -l <output_path> --cali_ckpt <quantized_ckpt_path>
# 4/8-bit weights, 8-bit activations
python scripts/sample_diffusion_ddim.py --config configs/cifar10.yml --use_pretrained --timesteps 100 --eta 0 --skip_type quad --ptq --weight_bit <4 or 8> --quant_mode qdiff --quant_act --act_bit 8 --a_sym --split -l <output_path> --cali_ckpt <quantized_ckpt_path>

# LSUN Bedroom (LDM-4)
# 4/8-bit weights-only
python scripts/sample_diffusion_ldm.py -r models/ldm/lsun_beds256/model.ckpt -n 20 --batch_size 10 -c 200 -e 1.0 --seed 41 --ptq --weight_bit <4 or 8> -l <output_path> --cali_ckpt <quantized_ckpt_path>
# 4/8-bit weights, 8-bit activations
python scripts/sample_diffusion_ldm.py -r models/ldm/lsun_beds256/model.ckpt -n 20 --batch_size 10 -c 200 -e 1.0 --seed 41 --ptq --weight_bit <4 or 8> --quant_act --act_bit 8 --a_sym -l <output_path> --cali_ckpt <quantized_ckpt_path>

# LSUN Church (LDM-8)
# 4/8-bit weights-only
python scripts/sample_diffusion_ldm.py -r models/ldm/lsun_churches256/model.ckpt -n 20 --batch_size 10 -c 400 -e 0.0 --seed 41 --ptq --weight_bit <4 or 8> -l <output_path> --cali_ckpt <quantized_ckpt_path>
# 4/8-bit weights, 8-bit activations
python scripts/sample_diffusion_ldm.py -r models/ldm/lsun_churches256/model.ckpt -n 20 --batch_size 10 -c 400 -e 0.0 --seed 41 --ptq --weight_bit <4 or 8> --quant_act --act_bit 8 -l <output_path> --cali_ckpt <quantized_ckpt_path>

# Stable Diffusion
# 4/8-bit weights-only
python scripts/txt2img.py --prompt <prompt. e.g. "a puppet wearing a hat"> --plms --cond --ptq --weight_bit <4 or 8> --quant_mode qdiff --no_grad_ckpt --split --n_samples 5 --outdir <output_path> --cali_ckpt <quantized_ckpt_path>
# 4/8-bit weights, 8-bit activations (with 16-bit for attention matrices after softmax)
python scripts/txt2img.py --prompt <prompt. e.g. "a puppet wearing a hat"> --plms --cond --ptq --weight_bit <4 or 8> --quant_mode qdiff --no_grad_ckpt --split --n_samples 5 --quant_act --act_bit 8 --sm_abit 16 --outdir <output_path> --cali_ckpt <quantized_ckpt_path>

Citation

If you find this work useful in your research, please consider citing our paper:

@article{li2023qdiffusion,
  title={Q-Diffusion: Quantizing Diffusion Models},
  author={Li, Xiuyu and Liu, Yijiang and Lian, Long and Yang, Huanrui and Dong, Zhen and Kang, Daniel and Zhang, Shanghang and Keutzer, Kurt},
  journal={arXiv},
  year={2023}
}

Acknowledgments

Our code was developed based on ddim, latent-diffusion and stable-diffusion. We referred to BRECQ for the blockwise calibration implementation.

We thank DeepSpeed for model sizes and BOPS measurement and torch-fidelity for IS and FID computation.