ByteDance/SDXL-Lightning
text-to-image model by ByteDance
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SDXL-Lightning is a lightning-fast text-to-image generation model. It can generate high-quality 1024px images in a few steps. For more information, please refer to our research paper: SDXL-Lightning: Progressive Adversarial Diffusion Distillation. We open-source the model as part of the research. Our models are distilled from stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0. This repository contains checkpoints for 1-step, 2-step, 4-step, and 8-step distilled models. The generation quality of our 2-step, 4-step, and 8-step model is amazing. Our 1-step model is more experimental. We provide both full UNet and LoRA checkpoints. The full UNet models have the best quality while the LoRA models can be applied to other base models. Please always use the correct checkpoint for the corresponding inference steps. Use LoRA only if you are using non-SDXL base models. Otherwise use our UNet checkpoint for better quality. The 1-step model is only…
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- SDXL-Lightning
- Demos
- Checkpoints
- Diffusers Usage
- 2-Step, 4-Step, 8-Step UNet
- 2-Step, 4-Step, 8-Step LoRA
- 1-Step UNet
- ComfyUI Usage
- 2-Step, 4-Step, 8-Step Full
- 2-Step, 4-Step, 8-Step LoRA
- 1-Step
- Cite Our Work
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Model overview
ByteDance/SDXL-Lightning is a text-to-image model repository published by ByteDance on Hugging Face. The source reports the diffusers library.
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Model facts
- Task
- text-to-image
- Library
- diffusers
- Recent downloads (30 days)
- 180,320
- Cumulative likes
- 2,217
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- License
- openrail++
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- Created
- 2024-02-20T20:03:33.000Z
- Last modified
- 2024-04-03T15:59:08.000Z
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