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I think this is a good time to ask if anyone is working on parallelizing machine learning compute anymore? For at-home computation like this it seems like it wo

I think this is a good time to ask if anyone is working on parallelizing machine learning compute anymore? For at-home computation like this it seems like it would be a lot better to allow people to stack a few cheaper GPUs rather than having to pony up thousands of dollars for ML-oriented beast cards to be able to do things like generate large images.

andybak 4y ago
AI upscaling will solve everything ;) I've generated some remarkably good-looking print quality images by upscaling 512x512 sources
- bambax 4y ago
  What do you use for upscaling? Standard software like Photoshop or Affinity, etc. or more dedicated software? Any recommendations for options, etc.?
  - andybak 4y ago
    Recently impressed by https://replicate.com/nightmareai/latent-sr https://replicate.com/nightmareai/latent-sr but otherwise - Cupscale
    - andybak 4y ago
      Here's a particularly impressive result I got from the former (considering it's not especially optimized for "vector art" enlargement): https://twitter.com/andybak/status/1558737805546749953?s=20&t=-8KHnJ1EYc2T4l5700n0TQ https://twitter.com/andybak/status/1558737805546749953?s=20&...
  - glenneroo 4y ago
    For videos in particular, if you don't mind shelling out cash, the current go-to (at least according to various AI discord servers I'm on) for AI animation nerds is currently Topaz upscaler. There are free alternatives but I've yet to see any of them work as well as Topaz, though I'm sure that will change soon. For interpolating frames Flowframes is "free" (new features if you join the Patreon) and is IMO very good. I've seen a number of 80s/90s VHS recordings of concerts being uploaded to YouTube in 4K (using Topaz) and they look like they were recorded that way, truly amazing. I do hear it can be a bit of work though getting the settings right.

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I think this is a good time to ask if anyone is working on parallelizing machine learning compute anymore? For at-home computation like this it seems like it wo

by mdorazio 4y ago

andybak 4y ago
AI upscaling will solve everything ;) I've generated some remarkably good-looking print quality images by upscaling 512x512 sources
- bambax 4y ago
  What do you use for upscaling? Standard software like Photoshop or Affinity, etc. or more dedicated software? Any recommendations for options, etc.?
  - andybak 4y ago
    Recently impressed by https://replicate.com/nightmareai/latent-sr https://replicate.com/nightmareai/latent-sr but otherwise - Cupscale
    - andybak 4y ago
      Here's a particularly impressive result I got from the former (considering it's not especially optimized for "vector art" enlargement): https://twitter.com/andybak/status/1558737805546749953?s=20&t=-8KHnJ1EYc2T4l5700n0TQ https://twitter.com/andybak/status/1558737805546749953?s=20&...
  - glenneroo 4y ago
    For videos in particular, if you don't mind shelling out cash, the current go-to (at least according to various AI discord servers I'm on) for AI animation nerds is currently Topaz upscaler. There are free alternatives but I've yet to see any of them work as well as Topaz, though I'm sure that will change soon. For interpolating frames Flowframes is "free" (new features if you join the Patreon) and is IMO very good. I've seen a number of 80s/90s VHS recordings of concerts being uploaded to YouTube in 4K (using Topaz) and they look like they were recorded that way, truly amazing. I do hear it can be a bit of work though getting the settings right.