Squeezing Large-Scale Diffusion Models for Mobile
This work enables on-device image synthesis for mobile applications, but it is incremental as it adapts existing methods to new deployment scenarios.
The paper tackled the problem of deploying large diffusion models like Stable Diffusion on mobile devices by addressing computational and memory constraints, achieving inference latency under 7 seconds for 512x512 image generation on Android GPUs.
The emergence of diffusion models has greatly broadened the scope of high-fidelity image synthesis, resulting in notable advancements in both practical implementation and academic research. With the active adoption of the model in various real-world applications, the need for on-device deployment has grown considerably. However, deploying large diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion with more than one billion parameters to mobile devices poses distinctive challenges due to the limited computational and memory resources, which may vary according to the device. In this paper, we present the challenges and solutions for deploying Stable Diffusion on mobile devices with TensorFlow Lite framework, which supports both iOS and Android devices. The resulting Mobile Stable Diffusion achieves the inference latency of smaller than 7 seconds for a 512x512 image generation on Android devices with mobile GPUs.