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stable-diffusion-5

stable-diffusion-5 is an open-weight image model from stable-diffusion-v1-5, 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 stable-diffusion-v1-5 1 variants 1.5M downloads/mo
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What stable-diffusion-5 is

Stable Diffusion v1-5 Model Card ⚠️ This repository is a mirror of the now deprecated ruwnayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5, this repository or organization are not affiliated in any way with RunwayML. Modifications to the original model card are in <span style="color:crimson"red</span or <span style="color:darkgreen"green</span Stable Diffusion is a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images given any text input. For more information about how Stable Diffusion functions, please have a look at 🤗's Stable Diffusion blog. The Stable-Diffusion-v1-5 checkpoint was initialized with the weights of the Stable-Diffusion-v1-2 checkpoint and subsequently fine-tuned on 595k steps at resolution 512x512 on "laion-aesthetics v2 5+" and 10% dropping of the text-conditioning to improve classifier-free guidance sampling. You can use this both with the 🧨Diffusers library and RunwayML GitHub repository (<span style="color:crimson"now deprecated</span), <span style="color:darkgreen"ComfyUI, Automatic1111, SD.Next, InvokeAI</span. Use with Diffusers For more detailed instructions, use-cases and examples in JAX follow the instructions here Use with GitHub Repository <span style="color:crimson"(now deprecated)</span, <span style="color:darkgreen"ComfyUI or Automatic1111</span 1. Download the weights - v1-5-pruned-emaonly.safetensors - ema-only weight. uses less VRAM - suitable for inference - v1-5-pruned.safetensors - ema+non-ema weights. uses more VRAM - suitable for fine-tuning 2. Follow instructions here. <span style="color:crimson"(now deprecated)</span 3. <span style="color:darkgreen"Use locally with <a href="https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI"ComfyUI</a, <a href="https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui"AUTOMATIC1111</a, <a href="https://github.com/vladmandic/automatic"SD.Next</a, <a href="https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI"InvokeAI</a</span Model Details - Developed by: Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser - Model type: Diffusion-based text-to-image generation model - Language(s): English - License: The CreativeML OpenRAIL M license is an Open RAIL M license, adapted from the work that BigScience and the RAIL Initiative are joint

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

Specifications

What it is

Makerstable-diffusion-v1-5
TypeImage models
Parameters (lead)860M
Variants1
Runs withdiffusers
Released2024-08-30
Popularity1.5M downloads / month
Likes1,257
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
stable-diffusion-v1-5860MBF16~2 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys stable-diffusion-5 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (stable-diffusion-5 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":"stable-diffusion-5","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

diffusers safetensors stable-diffusion stable-diffusion-diffusers text-to-image endpoints_compatible diffusers:StableDiffusionPipeline

Papers

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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