Model reference · open weights
InstantIR is an open-weight image model from InstantX. InstantIR (BF16) weighs 929 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the InstantX/InstantIR model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | InstantX |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-10-09 |
| VRAM | 929 MB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | One image | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
From the model card
InstantIR is a novel single-image restoration model designed to resurrect your damaged images, delivering extrem-quality yet realistic details. You can further boost InstantIR performance with additional text prompts, even achieve customized editing!
git clone https://github.com/JY-Joy/InstantIR.git
cd InstantIR
You can directly download InstantIR weights in this repository, or you can download them using python script:
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
hf_hub_download(repo_id="InstantX/InstantIR", filename="models/adapter.pt", local_dir=".")
hf_hub_download(repo_id="InstantX/InstantIR", filename="models/aggregator.pt", local_dir=".")
hf_hub_download(repo_id="InstantX/InstantIR", filename="models/previewer_lora_weights.bin", local_dir=".")
# !pip install diffusers opencv-python transformers accelerate
import torch
from PIL import Image
from diffusers import DDPMScheduler
from schedulers.lcm_single_step_scheduler import LCMSingleStepScheduler
from module.ip_adapter.utils import load_adapter_to_pipe
from pipelines.sdxl_instantir import InstantIRPipeline
# prepare models under ./models
instantir_path = f'./models'
# load pretrained models
pipe = InstantIRPipeline.from_pretrained('stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0', torch_dtype=torch.float16)
# load adapter
load_adapter_to_pipe(
pipe,
f"{instantir_path}/adapter.pt",
image_encoder_or_path = 'facebook/dinov2-large',
)
# load previewer lora
pipe.prepare_previewers(instantir_path)
pipe.scheduler = DDPMScheduler.from_pretrained('stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0', subfolder="scheduler")
lcm_scheduler = LCMSingleStepScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config)
# load aggregator weights
pretrained_state_dict = torch.load(f"{instantir_path}/aggregator.pt")
pipe.aggregator.load_state_dict(pretrained_state_dict)
# send to GPU and fp16
pipe.to(device='cuda', dtype=torch.float16)
pipe.aggregator.to(device='cuda', dtype=torch.float16)
Then, you can restore your broken images with:
# load a broken image
low_quality_image = Image.open('path/to/your-image').convert("RGB")
# InstantIR restoration
image = pipe(
image=low_quality_image,
previewer_scheduler=lcm_scheduler,
).images[0]
For more details including text-guided enhancement/editing, please refer to our GitHub repository.
This project is released under Apache License and aims to positively impact the field of AI-driven image generation. Users are granted the freedom to create images using this tool, but they are obligated to comply with local laws and utilize it responsibly. The developers will not assume any responsibility for potential misuse by users.
Our work is sponsored by HuggingFace and fal.ai.
If InstantIR helps your research or project, please cite us via
@article{huang2024instantir,
title={InstantIR: Blind Image Restoration with Instant Generative Reference},
author={Huang, Jen-Yuan and Wang, Haofan and Wang, Qixun and Bai, Xu and Ai, Hao and Xing, Peng and Huang, Jen-Tse},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.06551},
year={2024}
}
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
How it works
Running it yourself
Rent a machine by the hour. How to run this model is on its model card.