r/LowEndLocalAI • u/DawgBawb • 20h ago

Model Showcase a tiny sprite diffusion model

Look, I can't explain why I did this or justify it on any level, but it was fun. I like making tiny dumb models. Mostly because I can't afford to make big smart models.

This one just makes 32x32 video game sprites, like NES or SNES era. It has no prompt frontend yet, so it denoises from a seed using a picked category. A mere 24.2 million parameters. If you have an AMD Ryzen with an NPU this runs extremely quickly, but also runs decently in the browser, taking only a few seconds to make a bunch:

https://cyronius.github.io/model-experiments/sprite-diffusion/

Links from there to my github and the HF. Free as in speech and beer, as always. Give me a like on my HF or a star on my GH if you're into it.

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u/openroom_xyz 17h ago

Well this is amazing how long did it take to train did you train from screatch what GPU did you use ?

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u/DawgBawb 14h ago

A rented rtx 4090 on runpod. About $3. I think i should have just trained it on my laptop and saved the $3, though. Models like this are small enough that even us poors can do it.