Model reference · open weights
HiDream-E1-1 is an open-weight language model from HiDream-ai. HiDream-E1-1 (BF16) weighs 47.2 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 5090 32 GB.
HiDream-E1-1 is an any-to-any image editing model developed by HiDream-ai. It features 17.1B parameters and supports the English language. The model is released under the MIT license.
Summary of the HiDream-ai/HiDream-E1-1 model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | HiDream-ai |
|---|---|
| Released | 2025-07-16 |
| Parameters | 17.1B |
| VRAM | 47.2 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
How much memory each request adds isn't estimated yet for this architecture. The weights need at least the cards below, plus room for the context.
| Card | Weights alone |
|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB … L40S 48 GB 6 smaller cards | does not fit |
| A100 80 GB | fits |
| H100 80 GB | fits |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits |
| H200 141 GB | fits |
| B200 180 GB | fits |
| 2× RTX 5090 32 GB tensor parallel | fits |
| 2× L40S 48 GB tensor parallel | fits |
| 4× RTX 4090 24 GB tensor parallel | fits |
| 4× RTX 3090 24 GB tensor parallel | fits |
From the model card
HiDream-E1 is an image editing model built on HiDream-I1.
Please make sure you have installed Flash Attention and latest Diffusers. We recommend CUDA versions 12.4 for the manual installation.
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -U flash-attn --no-build-isolation
pip install -U git+https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers.git
Then you can run the inference scripts to generate images:
python ./inference_e1_1.py
[!NOTE] The inference script will try to automatically download
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instructmodel files. You need to agree to the license of the Llama model on your HuggingFace account and login usinghuggingface-cli loginin order to use the automatic downloader.
We also provide a Gradio demo for interactive image editing. You can run the demo with:
python gradio_demo_1_1.py
Evaluation results on EmuEdit and ReasonEdit Benchmarks. Higher is better.
| Model | EmuEdit Global | EmuEdit Add | EmuEdit Text | EmuEdit BG | EmuEdit Color | EmuEdit Style | EmuEdit Remove | EmuEdit Local | EmuEdit Average | ReasonEdit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OmniGen | 1.37 | 2.09 | 2.31 | 0.66 | 4.26 | 2.36 | 4.73 | 2.10 | 2.67 | 7.36 |
| MagicBrush | 4.06 | 3.54 | 0.55 | 3.26 | 3.83 | 2.07 | 2.70 | 3.28 | 2.81 | 1.75 |
| UltraEdit | 5.31 | 5.19 | 1.50 | 4.33 | 4.50 | 5.71 | 2.63 | 4.58 | 4.07 | 2.89 |
| Gemini-2.0-Flash | 4.87 | 7.71 | 6.30 | 5.10 | 7.30 | 3.33 | 5.94 | 6.29 | 5.99 | 6.95 |
| HiDream-E1 | 5.32 | 6.98 | 6.45 | 5.01 | 7.57 | 6.49 | 5.99 | 6.35 | 6.40 | 7.54 |
| HiDream-E1.1 | 7.47 | 7.97 | 7.49 | 7.32 | 7.97 | 7.84 | 7.51 | 6.80 | 7.57 | 7.70 |
The Transformer models in this repository are licensed under the MIT License. The VAE is from FLUX.1 [schnell], and the text encoders from google/t5-v1_1-xxl and meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct. Please follow the license terms specified for these components. You own all content you create with this model. You can use your generated content freely, but you must comply with this license agreement. You are responsible for how you use the models. Do not create illegal content, harmful material, personal information that could harm others, false information, or content targeting vulnerable groups.
FLUX.1 [schnell], licensed under Apache 2.0.google/t5-v1_1-xxl (licensed under Apache 2.0) and meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct (licensed under the Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement).@article{hidreami1technicalreport,
title={HiDream-I1: A High-Efficient Image Generative Foundation Model with Sparse Diffusion Transformer},
author={Cai, Qi and Chen, Jingwen and Chen, Yang and Li, Yehao and Long, Fuchen and Pan, Yingwei and Qiu, Zhaofan and Zhang, Yiheng and Gao, Fengbin and Xu, Peihan and others},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.22705},
year={2025}
}
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.