Paris: A Decentralized Trained Open-Weight Diffusion Model

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Autori principali: Jiang, Zhiying, Seraj, Raihan, Villagra, Marcos, Roy, Bidhan
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author Jiang, Zhiying
Seraj, Raihan
Villagra, Marcos
Roy, Bidhan
author_facet Jiang, Zhiying
Seraj, Raihan
Villagra, Marcos
Roy, Bidhan
contents We present Paris, the first publicly released diffusion model pre-trained entirely through decentralized computation. Paris demonstrates that high-quality text-to-image generation can be achieved without centrally coordinated infrastructure. Paris is open for research and commercial use. Paris required implementing our Distributed Diffusion Training framework from scratch. The model consists of 8 expert diffusion models (129M-605M parameters each) trained in complete isolation with no gradient, parameter, or intermediate activation synchronization. Rather than requiring synchronized gradient updates across thousands of GPUs, we partition data into semantically coherent clusters where each expert independently optimizes its subset while collectively approximating the full distribution. A lightweight transformer router dynamically selects appropriate experts at inference, achieving generation quality comparable to centrally coordinated baselines. Eliminating synchronization enables training on heterogeneous hardware without specialized interconnects. Empirical validation confirms that Paris's decentralized training maintains generation quality while removing the dedicated GPU cluster requirement for large-scale diffusion models. Paris achieves this using 14$\times$ less training data and 16$\times$ less compute than the prior decentralized baseline.
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spellingShingle Paris: A Decentralized Trained Open-Weight Diffusion Model
Jiang, Zhiying
Seraj, Raihan
Villagra, Marcos
Roy, Bidhan
Graphics
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Machine Learning
We present Paris, the first publicly released diffusion model pre-trained entirely through decentralized computation. Paris demonstrates that high-quality text-to-image generation can be achieved without centrally coordinated infrastructure. Paris is open for research and commercial use. Paris required implementing our Distributed Diffusion Training framework from scratch. The model consists of 8 expert diffusion models (129M-605M parameters each) trained in complete isolation with no gradient, parameter, or intermediate activation synchronization. Rather than requiring synchronized gradient updates across thousands of GPUs, we partition data into semantically coherent clusters where each expert independently optimizes its subset while collectively approximating the full distribution. A lightweight transformer router dynamically selects appropriate experts at inference, achieving generation quality comparable to centrally coordinated baselines. Eliminating synchronization enables training on heterogeneous hardware without specialized interconnects. Empirical validation confirms that Paris's decentralized training maintains generation quality while removing the dedicated GPU cluster requirement for large-scale diffusion models. Paris achieves this using 14$\times$ less training data and 16$\times$ less compute than the prior decentralized baseline.
title Paris: A Decentralized Trained Open-Weight Diffusion Model
topic Graphics
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03434