SDXL-Lightning

by ByteDance

About the model:

The model is distilled from Stable Diffusion XL

Model type:

Image

Model performance class:

Full

Link to the model:

https://huggingface.co/ByteDance/SDXL-Lightning

Base models:

Stable-Diffusion-XL-Base-1.0

End model:

SDXL-Lightning

End model license:

CreativeML Open RAIL++-M License

About the organisation:

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok.

Link to the organisation:

https://www.bytedance.com/

Model release date:

February 2024

Availability

Base Model Data

Trained on subsets of ImageNET and COCO, but specific dataset details are not disclosed.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13929

End User Model Data

Trained on subsets of LAION and COYO, but specific dataset details are not disclosed.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13929

Base Model Weights

Available through HuggingFace in the form of SafeTensors

https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0

End User Model Weights

Available through HuggingFace in the form of SafeTensors

https://huggingface.co/ByteDance/SDXL-Lightning

Training Code

The training code for SDXL-Lightning has not been publicly released.

Documentation

Code Documentation

On HuggingFace: 'We are currently not planning on releasing the training code.'

https://huggingface.co/ByteDance/SDXL-Lightning/discussions/1

Hardware Architecture

Specific hardware details for training are not disclosed.

Preprint

Preprint published in arXiv.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13929

Paper

No peer-reviewed paper found

Modelcard

HuggingFace model card omits many details on datasets, training, fine-tuning etc..

https://huggingface.co/ByteDance/SDXL-Lightning/blob/main/README.md

Datasheet

A formal datasheet has not been provided for SDXL-Lightning

Access

Licenses

The model is released under the CreativeML Open RAIL++-M License, not an OSI-approved license

https://huggingface.co/ByteDance/SDXL-Lightning/blob/main/LICENSE.md

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