1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

lumost 49 minutes ago |

I actually can’t wait for the future where I upgrade hardware in order to upgrade my ai as an alternative to an expensive subscription.

There are many problems I want to work on which require billions of tokens. These are completely inaccessible without corporate project sponsorship at the moment. An asic generation machine which can pump out a few 10s of thousands of tokens per second at opus4.6 quality is more than sufficient.

bigmadshoe 20 minutes ago | |

Can you give an example of such a problem?

sorenjan 1 hour ago |

They call it a diffusion model, but it's based on Flux.2 which is a rectified flow model.

a1o 38 minutes ago |

Anyone could pickup the minimal hardware requirements for this? Like both RAM and Storage?

mkl 3 minutes ago | |

The white paper says "mean-active memory pressure down to 1.95 GB for 1-bit Bonsai Image 4B and 2.38 GB for Ternary Bonsai Image 4B". Storage is on the linked page, and is about half that.

sudb 10 minutes ago |

Very interested to see where this kind of work goes for on-device video generation!

potatoman22 18 minutes ago |

I wonder why they didn't use a Bonsai model as the text encoder

wiradikusuma 36 minutes ago |

Is there a benchmark of local image generation models? Local = can run on a 16 GB MacBook or 8 GB+ NVIDIA card.

MitPitt 1 hour ago |

Lately I've noticed posts with barely 10 points getting to HN frontpage. Was it always like this?

robbomacrae 1 hour ago | |

I believe it's the way the HN algorithm works. In order to give new and obscure posts a shot, it will add them to peoples feeds in their front page and see how they measure. Otherwise new posts wouldn't get seen and the flywheel would never get started.

So everyone acts as a sort of beta tester for obscure posts.

s-macke 1 hour ago | |

On weekends, yes. During the week, that’s also true if they arrive within a short time frame, e.g., three minutes. Almost no one looks at “New”. That is the real issue.

blurbleblurble 13 minutes ago | |

Maybe the algorithm has some kind of "momentum" to it, taking into consideration the velocity of upvotes.

nickvec 20 minutes ago | |

If you are looking to see the "true" HN frontpage (i.e. most upvoted posts), I'd recommend using https://hckrnews.com

DannyPage 1 hour ago | |

Not as much competition on the weekend?

Aboutplants 1 hour ago | |

I just assume bots

iamjackg 1 hour ago | | |

Bots doing what? How would the poster being a bot influence why the post itself makes it to the front page with just 10 points?

speedgoose 26 minutes ago | | |

It’s about how quickly they get those points. It doesn’t have to be bots. Sending a post to friends with reputable human profiles, and asking for a vote kinda works of most social networks. Some social networks claim they have protection against this but I wouldn’t bet they catch everything.

janniks 20 minutes ago |

I was expecting to see images of Bonsai trees when I clicked this

tobr 19 minutes ago | |

I expected a small tree in black and white pixel art.

SilentM68 38 minutes ago |

Question,

Is it compatible with Ollama, ComfyUI or are those providers unneeded, compatible with low-end hardware?

Also, where does "./setup.sh/ drop the components in Linux?

Thank you, Sol

yieldcrv 1 hour ago |

impressive, combines a couple techniques that I always wanted the frontier models to have

having trouble loading the webgl browser demo on my phone but no biggy