# Pallas Cat (Otocolobus manul) — SDXL v1A LoRA for generating photorealistic Pallas cats — a rare wildfelid native to Central Asia, frequently mis-rendered by basemodels as tiger, snow leopard, or generic gray cat.## Usage- Trigger: <code>pallas cat, Otocolobus manul</code>- Recommended weight: 0.7 – 0.9- Best results: front-facing portraits, sitting poses,natural wildlife photography contexts- Known limitation: side-profile and dynamic poses can produce"anatomical chimeras" (front-face on side-body) — see the v2notes in the linked article. v2 will address this.## Sample promptspallas cat, Otocolobus manul, sitting on rock, looking at camera, soft natural daylight, wildlife photography, photorealistic## Training details- Base: SDXL 1.0- Dataset: 92 photographs (zoo livestream,photographer portfolios)- Rank 8, Alpha 1, 10 epochs, AdamW8bit- Captioning strategy: variable elements only — trigger word absorbspermanent species features## Full write-upThree findings I noticed during this training run — including achimera failure mode that more epochs don't fix — are written up at:<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-things-i-noticed-training-pallas-cat-lora-shimin-lin-5guhc/">[Part 2 LinkedIn Article link]</a>## AttributionFull photographer credits:<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://github.com/ButterPasser/pallas-cat-lora/tree/main"> [GitHub </a><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://github.com/ButterPasser/pallas-cat-lora/tree/main">ATTRIBUTION.md</a><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://github.com/ButterPasser/pallas-cat-lora/tree/main"> link]</a>## v2 comingv2 with diversified pose data is in training. Will be publishedunder this same model.

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