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Analysis updated 2026-07-18 · repo last pushed 2024-06-09

PythonAudience · researcherComplexity · 4/5DormantSetup · hard

TL;DR

An early-stage experiment that applies artistic styles like pointillism to photos using neural style transfer running on Tenstorrent AI chips.

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    What it does
      Neural style transfer
      Pointillism effect
      Runs on Tenstorrent chip
    Tech stack
      Python
      PyBUDA
      ONNX model zoo
    Use cases
      Stylize photos
      Test Tenstorrent hardware
      Explore AI art models
    Audience
      Researchers
      Hardware engineers

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Test how well an artistic style transfer model performs on Tenstorrent BUDA hardware.

REASON 2

Explore running ONNX model zoo models on specialized AI chips instead of GPUs.

REASON 3

Use as a starting point for benchmarking creative AI workloads on Tenstorrent devices.

What's in the stack?

PythonPyBUDAONNX

How it stacks up

marty1885/fast-style-transfer-ttbuda0xallam/my-recipe0xhassaan/nn-from-scratch
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LanguagePythonPythonPython
Last pushed2024-06-092022-11-22—
MaintenanceDormantDormant—
Setup difficultyhardmoderatemoderate
Complexity4/52/54/5
Audienceresearchergeneraldeveloper

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How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1day+

Requires PyBUDA and Tenstorrent hardware, README states the project is not yet working.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Explain how PyBUDA lets this style transfer model run on Tenstorrent hardware instead of a GPU.
Prompt 2
Walk me through setting up PyBUDA and running this pointillism style transfer on my own photo.
Prompt 3
What would it take to swap the pointillism ONNX model for a different art style in this repo?
Prompt 4
Help me understand why this project isn't working yet and what pieces are still missing.

Frequently asked questions

wtf is fast-style-transfer-ttbuda?

An early-stage experiment that applies artistic styles like pointillism to photos using neural style transfer running on Tenstorrent AI chips.

What language is fast-style-transfer-ttbuda written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, PyBUDA, ONNX.

Is fast-style-transfer-ttbuda actively maintained?

Dormant — no commits in 2+ years (last push 2024-06-09).

How hard is fast-style-transfer-ttbuda to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated hard, with roughly 1day+ to a first successful run.

Who is fast-style-transfer-ttbuda for?

Mainly researcher.

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