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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

    This is the Stage B / Decoder
    Trained on 98K images that got more than 0.98 score on both quality and aesthetic taggers from the newest dataset.

    FAQ

    Comments (4)

    juanluixMar 22, 2024
    CivitAI

    It doesn't work :(

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    (Update) Summary: Automatic1111 does not support Stable Cascade

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    I say "it doesn't work" because the images don't come out as expected from the model.

    They appear realistic, rather than anime-style.

    I'll post a simple image for you to see the result.

    I just added the model and tried it on.

    Since it came out with a realistic image, I tried the test image prompt (the girl with the red hair)

    And yet it still showed realistic images.

    Maybe a specific tag is needed? But since I've used the positive prompt, there shouldn't be a problem... :/

    (Edit)

    I see the example images, next to Seed, CFG scale, Sampler.... they also have "Workflow 12 nodes"

    Maybe you need to use workflow to make it work?

    I really have no idea, but I love how the model looks

    +Info

    I attach the following information in case it is of any use to you

    version: 1.5.2  •  python: 3.10.6  •  torch: 2.0.1+cu118  •  xformers: 0.0.20  •  gradio: 3.32.0  •  checkpoint: 1f5f4977dc

    Disty0
    Author
    Mar 22, 2024· 1 reaction

    Like i said in the model description, it can still fall back to realistic. Add "anime illustration" tag when this happens.
    But you shouldn't get a different results with the sample images, did you download the Stage C?

    Disty0
    Author
    Mar 22, 2024· 1 reaction

    Looking at your sample images, you've downloaded the Stage B. That's not the actual model. Stage B is the decoder for Stage C. Stage C is the actual model.

    And how are you able to run Stable Cascade on A1111?
    If you are using that Stable Cascade extension, you can't use this model with it.

    Only UIs capable of running Stable Cascade are ComfyUI and SD.Next.

    juanluixMar 22, 2024

    @Disty0 It doesn't seem to work.

    With "anime illustration" comes a real girl with an anime shirt XD

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    Models:

    I first downloaded the C version and used it like any other model.

    Windows 10: Models Folder

    And load the model

    At least all the downloaded models work for me.

    Note: The only models that don't work for me are the XL because I'm using an older version.

    I use an older version because when I updated I couldn't find "Extra Networks" and I didn't have time to figure out how everything worked again :/

    But the non-XL models work perfectly for me... at least around 30 different models.

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    Stable Cascade

    Okay, then that's why.

    Use Stable Diffusion with Automatic1111.

    Thanks for the help.

    For now I'll save the url for a future.

    And I'll remove the test images that I've uploaded so they don't give the wrong impression.

    Checkpoint
    Stable Cascade

    Details

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    Platform
    CivitAI
    Platform Status
    Available
    Created
    3/22/2024
    Updated
    5/12/2026
    Deleted
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    Files

    sotediffusion_decoderPreAlpha0.safetensors

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