AI engineering glossary · Generative media multimodal
What is textual inversion?
Textual inversion: A personalisation technique that learns a new word embedding representing a concept from a handful of example images, without changing the generator's weights. The learned token can then be used inside ordinary prompts.
Textual inversion: an example
Learning a token for a particular illustration style from 5 images lets users write 'a temple in the style of <my-style>'.
Related terms
More Generative media multimodal terms
- Variational autoencoder
- Video generation
- Vision encoder
- Vision-language model
- Visual grounding
- Visual instruction tuning
- Visual question answering
- VITS
Where you learn it
Textual inversion is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.