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sdxs-512-0.9

Available as managed deployment Image IDKiro · community Text→image 1 variants 939 dl/mo

sdxs-512-0.9 is an open-weight image model from IDKiro. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released byIDKiro
TypeImage models
TaskText→image
Parameters (lead)328M
Runs withdiffusers
Released2024-03-25
Popularity939 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What sdxs-512-0.9 is

Use the new version for community: SDXS-512-DreamShaper. It has better quality and is faster.

Read the full model card

SDXS-512-0.9

SDXS is a model that can generate high-resolution images in real-time based on prompt texts, trained using score distillation and feature matching. For more information, please refer to our research paper: SDXS: Real-Time One-Step Latent Diffusion Models with Image Conditions. We open-source the model as part of the research.

SDXS-512-0.9 is a old version of SDXS-512. In order to avoid some possible commercial and copyright risks, the SDXS-512-1.0 and SDXS-1024-1.0 will not be available shortly, and as an alternative we will provide new versions with different teacher DM or offline DM. Watch our repo for any updates.

Model Information:

The main differences between this model and version 1.0 are in three aspects:

  1. This version employs TAESD, which may produce low-quality images when weight_type is float16. Our image decoder is not compatible with the current version of diffusers, so it will not be provided now.
  2. This version did not perform the LoRA-GAN finetune mentioned in the implementation details section, which may result in slightly inferior image details.
  3. This version replaces self-attention with cross-attention in the highest resolution stages, which introduces minimal overhead compared to directly removing them.

Diffusers Usage

import torch
from diffusers import StableDiffusionPipeline, AutoencoderKL

repo = "IDKiro/sdxs-512-0.9"
seed = 42
weight_type = torch.float32     # or float16

# Load model.
pipe = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(repo, torch_dtype=weight_type)

# use original VAE
# pipe.vae = AutoencoderKL.from_pretrained("IDKiro/sdxs-512-0.9/vae_large")

pipe.to("cuda")

prompt = "portrait photo of a girl, photograph, highly detailed face, depth of field, moody light, golden hour"

# Ensure using 1 inference step and CFG set to 0.
image = pipe(
    prompt,
    num_inference_steps=1,
    guidance_scale=0,
    generator=torch.Generator(device="cuda").manual_seed(seed)
).images[0]

image.save("output.png")

Cite Our Work

@article{song2024sdxs,
  author    = {Yuda Song, Zehao Sun, Xuanwu Yin},
  title     = {SDXS: Real-Time One-Step Latent Diffusion Models with Image Conditions},
  journal   = {arxiv},
  year      = {2024},
}

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Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys sdxs-512-0-9 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (sdxs-512-0-9 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":"sdxs-512-0-9","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'

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