# AltDiffusion AltDiffusion was proposed in [AltCLIP: Altering the Language Encoder in CLIP for Extended Language Capabilities](https://huggingface.co/papers/2211.06679) by Zhongzhi Chen, Guang Liu, Bo-Wen Zhang, Fulong Ye, Qinghong Yang, Ledell Wu. The abstract from the paper is: *In this work, we present a conceptually simple and effective method to train a strong bilingual/multilingual multimodal representation model. Starting from the pre-trained multimodal representation model CLIP released by OpenAI, we altered its text encoder with a pre-trained multilingual text encoder XLM-R, and aligned both languages and image representations by a two-stage training schema consisting of teacher learning and contrastive learning. We validate our method through evaluations of a wide range of tasks. We set new state-of-the-art performances on a bunch of tasks including ImageNet-CN, Flicker30k-CN, COCO-CN and XTD. Further, we obtain very close performances with CLIP on almost all tasks, suggesting that one can simply alter the text encoder in CLIP for extended capabilities such as multilingual understanding. Our models and code are available at [this https URL](https://github.com/FlagAI-Open/FlagAI).* ## Tips `AltDiffusion` is conceptually the same as [Stable Diffusion](./stable_diffusion/overview). Make sure to check out the Schedulers [guide](../../using-diffusers/schedulers) to learn how to explore the tradeoff between scheduler speed and quality, and see the [reuse components across pipelines](../../using-diffusers/loading#reuse-components-across-pipelines) section to learn how to efficiently load the same components into multiple pipelines. ## AltDiffusionPipeline [[autodoc]] AltDiffusionPipeline - all - __call__ ## AltDiffusionImg2ImgPipeline [[autodoc]] AltDiffusionImg2ImgPipeline - all - __call__ ## AltDiffusionPipelineOutput [[autodoc]] pipelines.alt_diffusion.AltDiffusionPipelineOutput - all - __call__