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Pony_Diffusion_V6_XL

Pony_Diffusion_V6_XL is an open-weight image model from LyliaEngine, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

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What Pony_Diffusion_V6_XL is

PonyDiffusionV6XL Model description Pony Diffusion V6 is a versatile SDXL finetune capable of producing stunning SFW and NSFW visuals of various anthro, feral, or humanoids species and their interactions based on simple natural language prompts. CHECK "ABOUT THIS VERSION" ON THE RIGHT IF YOU ARE NOT ON "V6" FOR IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Please join our Discord Server to support development of new versions of this model and get access to free SD bot and check out more examples of this model capabilities on our prompt sharing website or follow the author on Twitter. Important information Make sure you load this model with clip skip 2 (or -2 in some software), otherwise you will be getting low quality blobs. This model supports a wide array of styles and aesthetics but provides an opinionated default prompt template that allows generation of high quality samples with no negative prompt and otherwise default settings score9, score8up, score7up, score6up, score5up, score4up, just describe what you want, tag1, tag2 (previous Pony Diffusion models used a simpler score9 quality modifier, the longer version of V6 XL version is a training issue that was too late to correct during training, you can still use score9 but it has a much weaker effect compared to full string. You can learn more about these tags here). The model is designed to not need negative prompts in most cases and does not need other quality modifiers like "hd", "masterpiece", etc... Other special data selection tags include, 'sourcepony', 'sourcefurry', 'sourcecartoon' and 'sourceanime' and ratings of 'ratingsafe', 'ratingquestionable' and 'ratingexplicit'. This model is capable of recognizing many popular and obscure characters and series. If you are looking specifically for pony style, I recommend using one of the two following templates `anthro/feral pony, rest of the prompt` or `sourcepony, rest of the prompt`. This model is trained on combination of natural language prompts and tags and is capable of understanding both, so describing intended result using normal language works in most

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

MakerLyliaEngine
TypeImage models
Variants1
Runs withdiffusers
Based onBakanayatsu/Pony-Diffusion-V6-XL-for-Anime
Released2024-05-25
Popularity288k downloads / month
Likes160
LicenceCommercial licence needed

How it works

How image models work

Text promptwhat to makeText encoderunderstands itDiffusion stepsdenoise to pixelsImagePNG / JPEGA diffusion model starts from noise and denoises it, guided by your prompt, into a finished image.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
Pony_Diffusion_V6_XLBF16Weights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys pony-diffusion-v6-xl for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (pony-diffusion-v6-xl below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/images/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"pony-diffusion-v6-xl","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

diffusers text-to-image stable-diffusion lora template:sd-lora

Licence

Commercial licence needed

The weights are open but cdla-permissive-2.0 needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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