# Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation

**Authors:** Aditya Ramesh, Mikhail Pavlov, Gabriel Goh, Scott Gray, Chelsea Voss, Alec Radford, Mark Chen, Ilya Sutskever  
**arXiv:** [2102.12092](https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12092)  
**Date:** 2021-02-24  
**Summary page:** https://www.summarizepaper.com/fr/paper/2102.12092v1/

## Abstract

Text-to-image generation has traditionally focused on finding better modeling assumptions for training on a fixed dataset. These assumptions might involve complex architectures, auxiliary losses, or side information such as object part labels or segmentation masks supplied during training. We describe a simple approach for this task based on a transformer that autoregressively models the text and image tokens as a single stream of data. With sufficient data and scale, our approach is competitive with previous domain-specific models when evaluated in a zero-shot fashion.