Model reference · open weights
HiDream-E1-Full is an open-weight language model from HiDream-ai. HiDream-E1-Full (BF16) weighs 47.2 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 5090 32 GB.
Summary of the HiDream-ai/HiDream-E1-Full model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | HiDream-ai |
|---|---|
| Released | 2025-04-27 |
| 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.py
Alternatively, you can use the model in your own code:
import torch
from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizerFast, LlamaForCausalLM
from pipeline_hidream_image_editing import HiDreamImageEditingPipeline
from PIL import Image
# Load the tokenizer and text encoder
tokenizer_4 = PreTrainedTokenizerFast.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct")
text_encoder_4 = LlamaForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
output_hidden_states=True,
output_attentions=True,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
)
# Load the HiDream pipeline
pipe = HiDreamImageEditingPipeline.from_pretrained(
"HiDream-ai/HiDream-E1-Full",
tokenizer_4=tokenizer_4,
text_encoder_4=text_encoder_4,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
)
# Load and prepare input image
test_image = Image.open("your_image.jpg")
test_image = test_image.resize((768, 768))
# Move pipeline to GPU
pipe = pipe.to("cuda", torch.bfloat16)
# Generate edited image
image = pipe(
prompt = 'Editing Instruction: Convert the image into a Ghibli style. Target Image Description: A person in a light pink t-shirt with short dark hair, depicted in a Ghibli style against a plain background.',
negative_prompt = "low resolution, blur",
image = test_image,
guidance_scale=5.0,
image_guidance_scale=4.0,
num_inference_steps=28,
generator=torch.Generator("cuda").manual_seed(3),
).images[0]
# Save output image
image.save("output.jpg")
[!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.
[!NOTE] The model accepts instructions in the following format:
Editing Instruction: {instruction}. Target Image Description: {description}Example:
Editing Instruction: Convert the image into a Ghibli style. Target Image Description: A person in a light pink t-shirt with short dark hair, depicted in a Ghibli style against a plain background.To refine your instructions, use the provided script:
python ./instruction_refinement.py --src_image ./test.jpeg --src_instruction "convert the image into a Ghibli style"The instruction refinement script requires a VLM API key - you can either run vllm locally or use OpenAI's API.
We also provide a Gradio demo for interactive image editing. You can run the demo with:
python gradio_demo.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 |
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={HiDrQuoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.