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# PixelModel v1
Last month we released PixelModel — a neural network whose weights are literally the pixels of a PNG. It was a toy: 202,752 parameters, welded to 32×32 output, trained on six solid-color swatches. It scored FID 566.84 on the Tiny-T2I-Leaderboard, mostly by producing the same yellow noise for every prompt.
Today we're releasing PixelModel v1. It is 8.5× smaller — 23,747 parameters — and it beats v0 on both benchmark metrics while being trained on 20,000 real MS-COCO caption/image pairs instead of six color swatches. The entire model now fits in a 160×149 PNG.
That image is not a visualization of the model. It is the model. All 23,747 weights, one per pixel.
## links
bench-labs
Blog post [read it here ⇗]( bench-labs/blog)
See us on the [Leaderboard ⇗]( FlameF0X/Tiny-T2I-Leaderboard)
Model card [here]( bench-labs/pixelmodel-v1)
## The catch
A 23K-parameter model does not draw sandwiches. With ~1 parameter per training image, the loss-minimizing behavior is to output the average of all plausible images for a caption — caption-conditioned color, light, and layout statistics. Food prompts come out warm and brown; sky prompts come out cool and bright. That is the ceiling for this size class, and we'd rather show it than crop around it.
# cherry on top 🍒
The model generates 600 images (cpu) in 5 (five) seconds.
Thats 5000 images in 24 seconds on cpu.
The model trained on cpu for just 30 minutes.
Last month we released PixelModel — a neural network whose weights are literally the pixels of a PNG. It was a toy: 202,752 parameters, welded to 32×32 output, trained on six solid-color swatches. It scored FID 566.84 on the Tiny-T2I-Leaderboard, mostly by producing the same yellow noise for every prompt.
Today we're releasing PixelModel v1. It is 8.5× smaller — 23,747 parameters — and it beats v0 on both benchmark metrics while being trained on 20,000 real MS-COCO caption/image pairs instead of six color swatches. The entire model now fits in a 160×149 PNG.
That image is not a visualization of the model. It is the model. All 23,747 weights, one per pixel.
## links
Blog post [read it here ⇗]( bench-labs/blog)
See us on the [Leaderboard ⇗]( FlameF0X/Tiny-T2I-Leaderboard)
Model card [here]( bench-labs/pixelmodel-v1)
## The catch
A 23K-parameter model does not draw sandwiches. With ~1 parameter per training image, the loss-minimizing behavior is to output the average of all plausible images for a caption — caption-conditioned color, light, and layout statistics. Food prompts come out warm and brown; sky prompts come out cool and bright. That is the ceiling for this size class, and we'd rather show it than crop around it.
# cherry on top 🍒
The model generates 600 images (cpu) in 5 (five) seconds.
Thats 5000 images in 24 seconds on cpu.
The model trained on cpu for just 30 minutes.
