# Generative Modeling Evaluation on ImageNet 256x256

Source: [Generative Modeling Evaluation on ImageNet 256x256](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/generative-modeling-evaluation-on-imagenet-256x256>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2026-02-26T05:47:42.236Z

Evaluation of generative models on the ImageNet dataset rendered at 256x256 resolution, typically measured using KGEL metrics.

A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage.

| Scope | Recorded value |
| --- | --- |
| Task | Generative Modeling Evaluation |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | ImageNet 256x256 |
| Metric | KGEL2 ET |
| Unit | SCALAR |
| Direction | Higher is better |
| Results loaded | 27 of 27 |
| Coverage | All results currently returned for this benchmark |

Evaluation settings may differ between results. The original papers and recorded configurations are needed to establish comparability. A shared metric name alone does not establish an identical protocol.

## Metrics

- [KGEL2 ET](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/generative-modeling-evaluation-on-imagenet-256x256.md?metric=KGEL2%20ET>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [KGEL EL](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/generative-modeling-evaluation-on-imagenet-256x256.md?metric=KGEL%20EL>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [KGEL ET](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/generative-modeling-evaluation-on-imagenet-256x256.md?metric=KGEL%20ET>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [KGEL2 EL](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/generative-modeling-evaluation-on-imagenet-256x256.md?metric=KGEL2%20EL>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

## Recorded results

| Method | KGEL2 ET | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VQ-VAE2 | 5.851 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| VQ-VAE2 | 5.723 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| BIGGAN-DEEP | 1.955 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| VQGAN\* | 1.717 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| VQGAN\* | 1.487 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| ADM-G | 1.442 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| BIGGAN-DEEP | 1.404 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| BIGGAN-DEEP | 1.396 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| ADM-G | 1.378 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| ADM-G | 1.324 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| ADM-G | 1.294 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| BIGGAN-DEEP | 1.288 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| BIGGAN-DEEP | 1.26 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| ADM | 1.255 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| ADM | 1.244 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| BIGGAN-DEEP | 1.222 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| CDM | 1.21 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| CDM | 1.204 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| BIGGAN-DEEP | 1.203 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| ADM-G | 1.188 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| ADM-G | 1.185 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| BIGGAN-DEEP | 1.166 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| VQGAN\*\* | 1.158 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| VQGAN\*\* | 1.148 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| TRAINING SET | 1.021 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| TRAINING SET | 1.017 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |
| THEOR. OPT | 1 | Not recorded | 68fa70391e209131cea49af2 |

### VQ-VAE2

KGEL2 ET: 5.851. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffc9.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65d61e209131cea0c943.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Evaluation Protocol":"One-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### VQ-VAE2

KGEL2 ET: 5.723. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffca.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65d61e209131cea0c943.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Evaluation Protocol":"Two-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BIGGAN-DEEP

KGEL2 ET: 1.955. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffc8.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65661e209131cea0a090.md>)

[Implementation](<https://tfhub.dev/s?q=biggan>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Truncation parameter (T)":0.2,"Evaluation Protocol":"Two-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### VQGAN\*

KGEL2 ET: 1.717. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffcc.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a371e209131cea26a4d.md>)

[Implementation](<https://git.io/JnyvK>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"k":600,"t":1,"p":0.92,"Evaluation Protocol":"Two-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### VQGAN\*

KGEL2 ET: 1.487. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffcb.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a371e209131cea26a4d.md>)

[Implementation](<https://git.io/JnyvK>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"k":600,"t":1,"p":0.92,"Evaluation Protocol":"One-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ADM-G

KGEL2 ET: 1.442. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffd6.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a0e1e209131cea25dba.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Guidance scale":10,"Evaluation Protocol":"Two-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BIGGAN-DEEP

KGEL2 ET: 1.404. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffc6.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65661e209131cea0a090.md>)

[Implementation](<https://tfhub.dev/s?q=biggan>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Truncation parameter (T)":0.6,"Evaluation Protocol":"Two-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BIGGAN-DEEP

KGEL2 ET: 1.396. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffc7.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65661e209131cea0a090.md>)

[Implementation](<https://tfhub.dev/s?q=biggan>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Truncation parameter (T)":0.2,"Evaluation Protocol":"One-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ADM-G

KGEL2 ET: 1.378. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffd5.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a0e1e209131cea25dba.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Guidance scale":10,"Evaluation Protocol":"One-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ADM-G

KGEL2 ET: 1.324. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffd4.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a0e1e209131cea25dba.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Guidance scale":5,"Evaluation Protocol":"Two-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ADM-G

KGEL2 ET: 1.294. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffd3.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a0e1e209131cea25dba.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Guidance scale":5,"Evaluation Protocol":"One-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BIGGAN-DEEP

KGEL2 ET: 1.288. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffc4.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65661e209131cea0a090.md>)

[Implementation](<https://tfhub.dev/s?q=biggan>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Truncation parameter (T)":0.8,"Evaluation Protocol":"Two-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BIGGAN-DEEP

KGEL2 ET: 1.26. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffc5.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65661e209131cea0a090.md>)

[Implementation](<https://tfhub.dev/s?q=biggan>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Truncation parameter (T)":0.6,"Evaluation Protocol":"One-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ADM

KGEL2 ET: 1.255. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffcf.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a0e1e209131cea25dba.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Evaluation Protocol":"One-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ADM

KGEL2 ET: 1.244. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffd0.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a0e1e209131cea25dba.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Evaluation Protocol":"Two-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BIGGAN-DEEP

KGEL2 ET: 1.222. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffc2.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65661e209131cea0a090.md>)

[Implementation](<https://tfhub.dev/s?q=biggan>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Truncation parameter (T)":1,"Evaluation Protocol":"Two-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### CDM

KGEL2 ET: 1.21. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffd7.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6b781e209131cea2e5b5.md>)

[Implementation](<https://cascaded-diffusion.github.io/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Evaluation Protocol":"One-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### CDM

KGEL2 ET: 1.204. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffd8.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6b781e209131cea2e5b5.md>)

[Implementation](<https://cascaded-diffusion.github.io/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Evaluation Protocol":"Two-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BIGGAN-DEEP

KGEL2 ET: 1.203. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffc3.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65661e209131cea0a090.md>)

[Implementation](<https://tfhub.dev/s?q=biggan>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Truncation parameter (T)":0.8,"Evaluation Protocol":"One-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ADM-G

KGEL2 ET: 1.188. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffd2.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a0e1e209131cea25dba.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Guidance scale":1,"Evaluation Protocol":"Two-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ADM-G

KGEL2 ET: 1.185. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffd1.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a0e1e209131cea25dba.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Guidance scale":1,"Evaluation Protocol":"One-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BIGGAN-DEEP

KGEL2 ET: 1.166. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffc1.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65661e209131cea0a090.md>)

[Implementation](<https://tfhub.dev/s?q=biggan>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Truncation parameter (T)":1,"Evaluation Protocol":"One-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### VQGAN\*\*

KGEL2 ET: 1.158. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffce.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a371e209131cea26a4d.md>)

[Implementation](<https://git.io/JnyvK>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"k":600,"a":0.05,"p":1,"Evaluation Protocol":"Two-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### VQGAN\*\*

KGEL2 ET: 1.148. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffcd.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a371e209131cea26a4d.md>)

[Implementation](<https://git.io/JnyvK>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"k":600,"a":0.05,"p":1,"Evaluation Protocol":"One-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### TRAINING SET

KGEL2 ET: 1.021. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffbf.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Evaluation Protocol":"One-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### TRAINING SET

KGEL2 ET: 1.017. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffc0.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Evaluation Protocol":"Two-sample"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### THEOR. OPT

KGEL2 ET: 1. Result ID: 6991247c3a6c31484905ffbe.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70391e209131cea49af2.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: Not recorded. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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