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NWCapture World Recording Instructions

What is a neural world?

Please read http://madebyoll.in/posts/world_emulation_via_neural_network.

You can also find more experimental neural worlds at https://neuralworlds.net.

What is the NWCapture App?

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jupyterlab_vim adds a truly unfortunate keybinding where, if you are in normal mode and press -, the current cell splits into two. I have never intentionally activated this feature yet have unintentionally activated it many dozens of times. It's awful.

Unfortunately, the logical route to disable the split-cell feature (modifying keybinding config files) doesn't work. I don't know why.

Therefore, I now manually locate the vim_bindings file and patch it:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from pathlib import Path

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Single-pass Superconditioning

Motivation

Guided diffusion sampling typically uses two forward passes per step:

1. One caption-conditional forward pass, to compute E[flow | noisy image, noise level, caption]
2. One unconditional forward pass, to compute E[flow | noisy image, noise level]

These results are then linearly combined to form a single guided/superconditioned flow prediction.

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These useful concepts show up in specific areas of NN-training literature but can be applied pretty broadly.

1. Non-leaky augmentations: you can add arbitrary augmentations during training, without substantially biasing in-domain performance, by adding a secondary input that tells the network which augmentations were used. This technique shows up the Karras et al image generation papers (ex. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.00364) but it's applicable whenever you want good performance on limited data.
2. Batch-stratified sampling: rather than generating per-sample random numbers with e.g. torch.rand(batch_size), you can use th.randperm(batch_size).add_(th.rand(batch_size)).div_(batch_size) instead, which has the same distribution but lower variance, and therefore trains more stably. This shows up in k-diffusion https://github.com/crowsonkb/k-diffusion/commit/a2b7b5f1ea0d3711a06661ca9e41b4e6089e5707, but it's applicable whenever you're randomizing data across the batch axis.
3. Replay buffers: when y

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Reviewing the Claims of DC-AE

TL;DR - I think the paper is a good contribution and basically holds up, but Figure 2 seems suspicious and the released repo doesn't include the pieces (AE training code and pretrained 4096-element AEs) that would be needed to make DC-AE practically competitive with SD/SDXL VAEs.

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DC-AE is an MIT / Tsinghua / NVIDIA paper about improving generative autoencoders (like the SD VAE) under the high-spatial-compression ratio regime.

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mysterious software bugs I encounter, like, daily

• if I add/destroy enough video tags (i.e. in periodic output display from a long-running jupyter notebook) Safari will eventually stop rendering all video tags across all pages until I reboot the browser
• if I interleave autocast and no_grad scopes in the wrong way (I think - autocast with no_grad inside followed by not-no-grad stuff?) pytorch will silently disable grad for the entire autocast scope
• if I edit colab notebooks (specific ones? on a specific connection? idk), I intermittently get "this notebook has been modified" conflict-resolution dialogs despite being the only editor of the notebook
• if I don't manually disable the collaborative extension on jupyterlab, it will intermittently teleport my cursor focus back to the first cell in the notebook

need to eventually find repro instructions and chase all of these down to fix

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from IPython.display import HTML

def get_pred_original_sample(sched, model_output, timestep, sample):
    return sample - sched.sigmas[(sched.timesteps == timestep).nonzero().item()] * model_output

# TODO: fix awful globals
prev_img_str = None

def pil_to_html(pil_img, h=IM_HEIGHT, w=IM_WIDTH):
    global prev_img_str

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Objective

Informal (vibes-based) evaluation of the following vision-language-model captioners:

• Florence-2-base-ft
• CogVLM2
• BLIP-2
• MoonDream2
• Share-Captioner
• Florence-2-SD3-Captioner

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
import gradio as gr
import numpy as np
import random
import torch
from diffusers import (
    StableDiffusion3Pipeline,
    SD3Transformer2DModel,
    FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler,
    AutoencoderTiny,

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