SeaArt Quality Tags adds two quality tags to <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/391781/seaart-furry-xl-10">SeaArt Furry XL</a>, replacing the existing <code>best quality</code> and <code>worst quality</code>. It is an SDXL successor to my <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/127533">Fluffyrock Quality Tags</a> with an improved dataset and a bit of preference optimization.<h2 id="usage-uojc0e376">Usage</h2>Just two tags this time. You can play around with weighting and tag order to control the strength.<pre><code>Positive: best quality
Negative: worst quality</code></pre><h2 id="model-info-g2brci259">Model Info</h2>The goal of this LoRA is to improve the style of the SeaArt Furry XL model without using any other style tags. It produces a colorful, cartoony style with thick lines but can do semi-realism if you bully it hard enough.Improvements include:<ul><li>Training an aesthetic scoring model to curate a dataset based on my preferences.</li><li>Balancing the dataset so it isn't dominated by a few prolific artists.</li><li>Manual validation every epoch to stop training when the style stops improving. Just 2 epochs was enough (20k steps).</li><li>Implement <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://mapo-t2i.github.io/">MaPO</a> preference optimization to improve the style even after conventional training stagnated.</li><li>Good compatibility with <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/498370">Compassmix</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/588186">Bananastrike</a> that preserves their natural language capability. The style is less cartoony but still aesthetically pleasing.</li></ul><h2 id="limitations-zb8i2h945">Limitations</h2><ul><li>Complicated scenes have more anatomy/coherence problems. This is actually a problem with the base model, but I wasn't able to improve it even with preference optimization.</li><li>I used a synthetic dataset for preference optimization (for each real image, I generate a "rejected" version with the same caption). This lets me build a dataset quickly, but doesn't capture the same nuances as real preference data.</li><li>MaPO is finnicky and starts to produce stippling and gridlike artifacts when training goes too long, even though the style was still improving. You might get faint artifacts in rare cases, despite my best efforts.</li></ul>

SeaArt Quality Tags

Initial release. SFT for about 20k steps, then MaPO for 3k steps

seaart-quality-v1.safetensors

SeaArt Quality Tags - Furry

v1.0

creator: FeffySeaArt Quality Tags adds two quality tags to <a target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://civitai.com/models/391781/seaart-furry-xl-10">SeaArt Furry XL</a>, replacing the existing best quality and worst quality. It is an SDXL successor to my <a target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://civitai.com/models/127533">Fluffyrock Quality Tags</a> with an improved dataset and a bit of preference optimization.UsageJust two tags this time. You can play around with weighting and tag order to control the strength.Positive: best qualityNegative: worst qualityModel InfoThe goal of this LoRA is to improve the style of the SeaArt Furry XL model without using any other style tags. It produces a colorful, cartoony style with thick lines but can do semi-realism if you bully it hard enough.Improvements include:<ul><li>Training an aesthetic scoring model to curate a dataset based on my preferences.</li><li>Balancing the dataset so it isn't dominated by a few prolific artists.</li><li>Manual validation every epoch to stop training when the style stops improving. Just 2 epochs was enough (20k steps).</li><li>Implement <a target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://mapo-t2i.github.io/">MaPO</a> preference optimization to improve the style even after conventional training stagnated.</li><li>Good compatibility with <a target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://civitai.com/models/498370">Compassmix</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://civitai.com/models/588186">Bananastrike</a> that preserves their natural language capability. The style is less cartoony but still aesthetically pleasing.</li></ul>Limitations<ul><li>Complicated scenes have more anatomy/coherence problems. This is actually a problem with the base model, but I wasn't able to improve it even with preference optimization.</li><li>I used a synthetic dataset for preference optimization (for each real image, I generate a "rejected" version with the same caption). This lets me build a dataset quickly, but doesn't capture the same nuances as real preference data.</li><li>MaPO is finnicky and starts to produce stippling and gridlike artifacts when training goes too long, even though the style was still improving. You might get faint artifacts in rare cases, despite my best efforts.</li></ul>Suggested Resources <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="mantine-Paper-root mantine-Card-root mantine-q9ypf2" href="https://civitai.com/models/391781/seaart-furry-xl-10">SeaArt Furry XL 1.0</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="mantine-Paper-root mantine-Card-root mantine-q9ypf2" href="https://civitai.com/models/498370/compassmix-xl-lightning">Compassmix XL Lightning</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="mantine-Paper-root mantine-Card-root mantine-q9ypf2" href="https://civitai.com/models/588186/bananastrike-xl-lightning">Bananastrike XL Lightning</a>

Positive: best quality
Negative: worst quality


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