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Realistic_Vision.1_noVAE

Realistic_Vision.1_noVAE is an open-weight image model from SG161222, 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.

Image SG161222 1 variants 445k downloads/mo
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About

What Realistic_Vision.1_noVAE is

For version 5.1 it is recommended to use with VAE (to improve generation quality and get rid of artifacts): https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sd-vae-ft-mse-original<br (deformed iris, deformed pupils, semi-realistic, cgi, 3d, render, sketch, cartoon, drawing, anime:1.4), text, close up, cropped, out of frame, worst quality, low quality, jpeg artifacts, ugly, duplicate, morbid, mutilated, extra fingers, mutated hands, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn face, mutation, deformed, blurry, dehydrated, bad anatomy, bad proportions, extra limbs, cloned face, disfigured, gross proportions, malformed limbs, missing arms, missing legs, extra arms, extra legs, fused fingers, too many fingers, long neck<br (deformed iris, deformed pupils, semi-realistic, cgi, 3d, render, sketch, cartoon, drawing, anime, mutated hands and fingers:1.4), (deformed, distorted, disfigured:1.3), poorly drawn, bad anatomy, wrong anatomy, extra limb, missing limb, floating limbs, disconnected limbs, mutation, mutated, ugly, disgusting, amputation CFG Scale 3,5 - 7<br Hires. fix with 4x-UltraSharp upscaler<br 0 Hires steps and Denoising strength 0.25-0.7<br Upscale by 1.1-2.0</b

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

Specifications

What it is

MakerSG161222
TypeImage models
Parameters (lead)860M
Variants1
Runs withdiffusers
Released2023-07-31
Popularity445k downloads / month
Likes263
LicenceOpen weights

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
Realistic_Vision_V5.1_noVAE860MBF16~2 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys realistic-vision-1-novae for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (realistic-vision-1-novae 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":"realistic-vision-1-novae","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

diffusers safetensors endpoints_compatible diffusers:StableDiffusionPipeline

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under creativeml-openrail-m — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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