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vae-kl-f8-d16 is a machine learning model from otinpo. Use it for the machine learning task on the model card, and read the license before you ship it in a product. It is set up for diffusers. The card lists the license as mit.
A 16 channel VAE with 8x downsample. Trained from scratch on a balance of photos, artistic, text, cartoons, vector images.
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From the Hugging Face model README
A 16 channel VAE with 8x downsample. Trained from scratch on a balance of photos, artistic, text, cartoons, vector images.
It is lighter weight that most VAEs with only 57,266,643 parameters (vs SD3 VAE: 83,819,683) which means it is faster and uses less VRAM yet scores quite similarly on real images. Plus it is MIT licensed so you can do whatever you want with it.
| VAE | PSNR (higher better) | LPIPS (lower better) | # params |
|---|---|---|---|
| sd-vae-ft-mse | 26.939 | 0.0581 | 83,653,863 |
| SDXL | 27.370 | 0.0540 | 83,653,863 |
| SD3 | 31.681 | 0.0187 | 83,819,683 |
| Ostris KL-f8-d16 | 31.166 | 0.0198 | 57,266,643 |
Check out the comparison at imgsli.
If you don't know, you probably don't need this. This is made as an open source lighter version of a 16ch vae. You would need to train it into a network before it is useful. I plan to do this myself for SD 1.5, SDXL, and possibly pixart. Follow me on Twitter to keep up with my work on that.
This VAE is not SD3 compatable as it is trained from scratch and has an entirely different latent space.