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 [Björn Ommer](https://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/Staff/bommer)<br/>
 \* equal contribution
 
-**tl;dr** We combine the efficiancy of convolutional approaches with the expressivity of transformers by introducing a convolutional VQGAN, which learns a codebook of context-rich visual parts, whose composition is modeled with an autoregressive transformer.
+**tl;dr** We combine the efficiency of convolutional approaches with the expressivity of transformers by introducing a convolutional VQGAN, which learns a codebook of context-rich visual parts, whose composition is modeled with an autoregressive transformer.
 
 ![teaser](assets/teaser.png)
 [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09841) | [BibTeX](#bibtex) | [Project Page](https://compvis.github.io/taming-transformers/)