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    New version is out: https://civarchive.com/models/628865/sotediffusion-v2

    Anime finetune of Würstchen V3.

    This release is sponsored by fal.ai/grants

    Trained on 6M images for 3 epochs using 8x A100 80G GPUs.

    This model can be used via API with Fal.AI

    For more details: https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/stable-cascade/sote-diffusion


    Please refer to Huggingface for SD.Next UI, Diffusers or UNet models:
    https://huggingface.co/Disty0/sotediffusion-wuerstchen3
    CivitAI page has only the ComfyUI checkpoint models.

    Inference Parameters:

    Download the Main model (8.14 GB file):

    https://civarchive.com/api/download/models/563950?type=Model&format=SafeTensor&size=pruned&fp=fp16


    Download the Decoder model (4.24 GB file):

    https://civarchive.com/api/download/models/563892?type=Model&format=SafeTensor&size=pruned&fp=fp16

    Positives:

    newest, extremely aesthetic, best quality,

    Negatives:

    very displeasing, worst quality, monochrome, realistic, oldest, loli,

    Main:

    Sampler: DDPM or DPMPP 2M with SGM Uniform
    CFG: 7
    Steps: 30 or 40

    Decoder:

    Sampler: Euler a Karras
    CFG: 1 or 1.2
    Steps: 10

    Compression: 42 (or 32 to 64)

    Resolution: 1024x1536, 2048x1152.

    Anything works as long as it's a multiply of 128.

    Training:

    Software used: Kohya SD-Scripts with Stable Cascade branch.
    https://github.com/kohya-ss/sd-scripts/tree/stable-cascade

    GPU used: 8x Nvidia A100 80GB
    GPU hours: 220

    Base

    parameters | value

    • amp | bf16

    • weights | fp32

    • save weights | fp16

    • resolution | 1024x1024

    • effective batch size | 128

    • unet learning rate | 1e-5

    • te learning rate | 4e-6

    • optimizer | Adafactor

    • images | 6M

    • epochs | 3

    Final

    parameters | value

    • amp | bf16

    • weights | fp32

    • save weights | fp16

    • resolution | 1024x1024

    • effective batch size | 128

    • unet learning rate | 4e-6

    • te learning rate | none

    • optimizer | Adafactor

    • images | 120K

    • epochs | 16

    Dataset:

    GPU used for captioning: 1x Intel ARC A770 16GB
    GPU hours: 350

    Model used for captioning: SmilingWolf/wd-swinv2-tagger-v3

    Model used for text: llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf

    Command:

    python /mnt/DataSSD/AI/Apps/kohya_ss/sd-scripts/finetune/tag_images_by_wd14_tagger.py --model_dir "/mnt/DataSSD/AI/models/wd14_tagger_model" --repo_id "SmilingWolf/wd-swinv2-tagger-v3" --recursive --remove_underscore --use_rating_tags --character_tags_first --character_tag_expand --append_tags --onnx --caption_separator ", " --general_threshold 0.35 --character_threshold 0.50 --batch_size 4 --caption_extension ".txt" ./


    dataset name | total images

    • newest : 1.85M

    • recent : 1.38M

    • mid : 993K

    • early : 566K

    • oldest : 160K

    • pixiv : 344K

    • visual novel cg : 231K

    • anime wallpaper : 105K

    • Total: 5.628.499 images

    Note:

    • Smallest size is 1280x600 / 768.000 pixels

    • Deduped based on image similarity using czkawka-cli

    • Around 120K very high quality images got intentionally duplicated 5 times, making the total image count 6.2M


    Tags:

    Tag Format:

    Model is trained with random tag order but this is the order in the dataset if you are interested:

    aesthetic tags, quality tags, date tags, custom tags, rating tags, character, series, rest of the tags

    Date:

    • newest : 2022 to 2024

    • recent : 2019 to 2021

    • mid : 2015 to 2018

    • early : 2011 to 2014

    • oldest : 2005 to 2010

    Aesthetic Tags:

    Model used: shadowlilac/aesthetic-shadow-2

    • score > 0.90 : extremely aesthetic

    • score > 0.80 : very aesthetic

    • score > 0.70 : aesthetic

    • score > 0.50 : slightly aesthetic

    • score > 0.40 : not displeasing

    • score > 0.30 : not aesthetic

    • score > 0.25 : slightly displeasing

    • score > 0.10 : displeasing

    • rest of them : very displeasing

    Quality Tags:

    Model used: https://huggingface.co/hakurei/waifu-diffusion-v1-4/blob/main/models/aes-B32-v0.pth

    • score > 0.980 : best quality

    • score > 0.900 : high quality

    • score > 0.750 : great quality

    • score > 0.500 : medium quality

    • score > 0.250 : normal quality

    • score > 0.125 : bad quality

    • score > 0.025 : low quality

    • rest of them : worst quality

    Rating Tags:

    • general

    • sensitive

    • nsfw

    • explicit nsfw

    Custom Tags:

    • image boards: date,

    • text: The text says "text",

    • characters: character, series

    • pixiv: art by Display_Name,

    • visual novel cg: Full_VN_Name (short_3_letter_name), visual novel cg,

    • anime wallpaper: date, anime wallpaper,

    License

    SoteDiffusion models falls under Fair AI Public License 1.0-SD license, which is compatible with Stable Diffusion models’ license. Key points:

    • 1. Modification Sharing: If you modify SoteDiffusion models, you must share both your changes and the original license.

    • 2. Source Code Accessibility: If your modified version is network-accessible, provide a way (like a download link) for others to get the source code. This applies to derived models too.

    • 3. Distribution Terms: Any distribution must be under this license or another with similar rules.

    • 4. Compliance: Non-compliance must be fixed within 30 days to avoid license termination, emphasizing transparency and adherence to open-source values.

    Notes: Anything not covered by Fair AI license is inherited from Stability AI Non-Commercial license.

    Description

    Initial pre-alpha release

    Can fall back to realistic.
    Use "anime illustration" tag to point it into the right direction.

    Far shot eyes are bad thanks to the heavy latent compression.

    Nudity is there but not trained enough yet.

    FAQ

    Comments (12)

    cinnamomoMar 17, 2024· 4 reactions
    CivitAI

    I encourage your experiment; this may contribute to the rapid popularisation of SC in most effective way.

    p.s. is this model willing to support NSFW generation in the future?

    Disty0
    Author
    Mar 17, 2024

    Roughly 10% of the dataset is NSFW. It simply didn't had enough time to learn NSFW properly yet.

    Visual Novel CG dataset has very high NSFW ratio in it, using that tag helps for now.

    VeerGeerJun 15, 2024

    it does now

    stygianwizard42Mar 20, 2024
    CivitAI

    having some trouble getting this to work in comfy, can I have a hand?

    Disty0
    Author
    Mar 20, 2024

    Import the preview image.

    stygianwizard42Mar 21, 2024

    @Disty0 I import it, it runs an error and then won't let me change the red nodes, unet, clip vae

    Disty0
    Author
    Mar 21, 2024

    You need to download and rename the model files first.

    Stage C to UNet folder.
    Stage B to UNet folder.
    Stage A to VAE folder.
    Text Encoder to Clip folder.

    Then select the models in ComfyUI.

    DazrockMar 24, 2024

    @Disty0 May i ask what you change the file names to? Thx!

    DazrockApr 4, 2024

    @stygianwizard42 Did you get it working in the end?
    I get errors in the imported comfy workflow too. What makes things a bit difficult is that it seems like everyone is using checkpoint workflows? There is no workflows other than the one in these sample images that are compatible with this model. x_x

    stygianwizard42Apr 5, 2024· 1 reaction

    @Dazrock I got it to work sort of, once I put them in the UNet it worked but when I started changing the prompt and settings it started giving white images, I downloaded the new models and now its giving me a error: Error occurred when executing UNETLoader: 'conv_in.weight'

    SimpleguyJun 3, 2024

    Did you ever fix it?

    stygianwizard42Jun 3, 2024

    @Simpleguy no I don't think I did

    Checkpoint
    Stable Cascade

    Details

    Downloads
    100
    Platform
    CivitAI
    Platform Status
    Available
    Created
    3/16/2024
    Updated
    5/12/2026
    Deleted
    -

    Files

    sotediffusion_preAlpha0.safetensors

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