common methods fail to faithfully reconstruct detailed images after 16x spatial compression. Würstchen employs a two-stage compression, what we call Stage A and Stage B. Stage A is a VQGAN, and Stage B is a Diffusion Autoencoder (more details can be found in the [paper](https://huggingface.co/papers/2306.00637)). A third model, Stage C, is learned in that highly compressed latent space. This training requires fractions of the compute used for c