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Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

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Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

#15

The [schnell] model variant is Apache-licensed and is open sourced on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell It is very fast and very good at rendering text, and appears to have a text encoder such that the model can handle both text and positioning much better: https://x.com/minimaxir/status/1819041076872908894 A fun consequence of better text rendering is that it means text watermarks…

Thank you. Their website is super hard to navigate and I can't find a "DOWNLOAD" button.

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

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post #15

The [schnell] model variant is Apache-licensed and is open sourced on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell It is very fast and very good at rendering text, and appears to have a text encoder such that the model can handle both text and positioning much better: https://x.com/minimaxir/status/1819041076872908894 A fun consequence of better text rendering is that it means text watermarks…

Thank you. Their website is super hard to navigate and I can't find a "DOWNLOAD" button.

Note that actually running the model without a A100 GPU or better will be tricker than usual given its size (12B parameters, 24GB on disk).

There is a PR to that repo for a diffusers implementation, which may run on a cheap L4 GPU w/ enable_model_cpu_offload(): https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell/comm...

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

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post #15

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Thank you. Their website is super hard to navigate and I can't find a "DOWNLOAD" button.

Note that actually running the model without a A100 GPU or better will be tricker than usual given its size (12B parameters, 24GB on disk). There is a PR to that repo for a diffusers implementation, which may run on a cheap L4 GPU w/ enable_model_cpu_offload(): https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell/comm...

3090 TIs should be able to handle it without much in the way of tricks for a "reasonable" (for the HN crowd) price.

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

#19

It is very good at "non-human subjects in photos with shallow focus". Really curious to see what other low-hanging fruits people are finding.

Check out reddit.com/r/stablediffusion, it's been handling everything people have thrown at it so far.

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

#20
I wonder if the key behind the quality of the MidJourney models, and this models, is less about size + architecture and more about the quality of images trained on.

It looks like this is the case for LLMs, that the training quality of the data has a significant impact on the output quality of the model, which makes sense.

So the real magic is in designing a system to curate that high quality data.

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