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    [Anima] Flash 8 steps cfg 1 distilled - ep40
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    a distillation lora for anima, trained on ~100 images at 1024x generated by the model itself using 40 steps cfg = 4 er_sde from diverse captions
    baked-in negative prompt: worst quality, low quality, score_1, score_2, score_3, blurry, jpeg artifacts, sepia

    may or may not be underbaked/overbaked
    works best with cfg = 1 and 8 steps for heun/2s samplers, 16 steps for 1s or multistep samplers
    the training code is a modification of diffusion-pipe for RL/distillation + custom comfyui nodes for data generation
    TODO: get a larger more diverse RL dataset and filter it for artifacts

    Description

    epoch 50 on 100 images, continued from epoch 15 but with grad accum 2

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    Comments (5)

    HycrosMar 9, 2026· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    really amazing work. so far er_sde and simple/normal have worked best with 16 steps and 1 CFG.

    it also works with different styles (as in it doesn't have a style lock) but it is slightly more prone to deformations (not hating, just in case you are working on a V2)

    levzzz
    Author
    Mar 9, 2026

    uploaded v2, this time i filtered the training set for deformations so it should work better

    HycrosMar 10, 2026

    doing the god's work. its very much a improvement over the v1.

    its also a very good improvement on character identities. v1 mixed them up a lot.

    amazing work. one thing i found that it sometimes does "x-ray" shots without prompting for it. (which isn't particularly a bad thing, some might call it a improvement, and its like 1 in 4 shots so not that annoying either)

    as for the anatomy, its much better than v1, but still struggles when there are 2 or more people, altough for single person images, anatomy issues are pretty much gone in v2. (again, not hating, just "constructive criticism")

    levzzz
    Author
    Mar 10, 2026· 1 reaction

    @Hycros ep100 does sometimes give me overfit vibes so i may upload ep80 of v2. As for v3 I'll expand the dataset maybe around 2x (if i don't go insane while filtering images) and rank up to 64.

    Additionaly I would like to implement ArcFlow training and sampling in comfyui but it's pretty difficult 🫠

    HycrosMar 10, 2026

    @levzzz another thing i would like to point out is that in most images, details feels washed (slightly). kinda like someone adding negative weights on a detailer lora.
    i have been doing CFG 1.5 and 8-10 steps with res_multistep+simple. this has mostly fixed everything and now i get almost same quality (80% of the gens) as the base model in 1/3rd of the gen time.

    i just wanna say thnak you for this amazing work. may both side of your pillow be forever cold😜. looking forward to what you do with it in future.

    LORA
    Anima

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    Created
    3/8/2026
    Updated
    6/12/2026
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    anima-flash-ep40-2603.safetensors

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