Hugging Face Remote VAE Inference Endpoints

AI Impact Summary

Hugging Face is introducing a new experimental feature: remote VAE inference via Inference Endpoints. This allows users to offload the computationally intensive VAE decoding process to a remote server, mitigating memory constraints on consumer GPUs. The implementation utilizes custom handlers and Diffusers toolkit modifications, offering a potential solution for running high-resolution image and video synthesis models without significant latency or VRAM requirements. This approach leverages AWS endpoints for secure and scalable inference.