# 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 multimodal representation model. Starting from the pretrained multimodal representation model CLIP released by OpenAI, we switched its text encoder with a pretrained 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, and COCO-CN. 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.* ## 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__