Japanese Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion, developed by CompVis, Stability AI, and LAION, has generated a great deal of interest due to its ability to generate highly accurate images by simply entering text prompts. Stable Diffusion mainly uses the English subset LAION2B-en of the LAION-5B dataset for its training data and, as a result, requires English text prompts to be entered producing images that tend to be more oriented towards Western culture. Japanese Stable Diffusion accepts Japanese text prompts and generates images that reflect the culture of the Japanese-speaking world which may be difficult to express through translation. In this blog, we will discuss the background of the development of Japanese Stable Diffusion and its learning methodology. Japanese Stable Diffusion is available on Hugging Face and GitHub.