pipeline_tag: text-to-image
inference: false
SD-Turbo Model Card
SD-Turbo is a fast generative text-to-image model that can synthesize photorealistic images from a text prompt in a single network evaluation.
We release SD-Turbo as a research artifact, and to study small, distilled text-to-image models. For increased quality and prompt understanding,
we recommend SDXL-Turbo.
Model Details
Model Description
SD-Turbo is a distilled version of Stable Diffusion 2.1, trained for real-time synthesis. SD-Turbo is based on a novel training method called Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD) (see the technical report), which allows sampling large-scale foundational image diffusion models in 1 to 4 steps at high image quality. This approach uses score distillation to leverage large-scale off-the-shelf image diffusion models as a teacher signal and combines this with an adversarial loss to ensure high image fidelity even in the low-step regime of one or two sampling steps.
- Developed by: Stability AI
- Funded by: Stability AI
- Model type: Generative text-to-image model
- Finetuned from model: Stable Diffusion 2.1
Model Sources
For research purposes, we recommend our generative-models Github repository (https://github.com/Stability-AI/generative-models),
which implements the most popular diffusion frameworks (both training and inference).
- Repository: https://github.com/Stability-AI/generative-models
- Paper: https://stability.ai/research/adversarial-diffusion-distillation
- Demo [for the bigger SDXL-Turbo]: http://clipdrop.co/stable-diffusion-turbo
Evaluation
The charts above evaluate user preference for SD-Turbo over other single- and multi-step models.
SD-Turbo evaluated at a single step is preferred by human voters in terms of image quality and prompt following over LCM-Lora XL and LCM-Lora 1.5.
Note: For increased quality, we recommend the bigger version SDXL-Turbo. For details on the user study, we refer to the research paper.
Uses
Direct Use
The model is intended for research purposes only. Possible research areas and tasks include
- Research on generative models.
- Research on real-time applications of generative models.
- Research on the impact of real-time generative models.
- Safe deployment of models which have the potential to generate harmful content.
- Probing and understanding the limitations and biases of generative models.
- Generation of artworks and use in design and other artistic processes.
- Applications in educational or creative tools.
Excluded uses are described below.
Out-of-Scope Use
The model was not trained to be factual or true representations of people or events, and therefore using the model to generate such content is out-of-scope for the abilities of this model. The model should not be used in any way that violates Stability AI's Acceptable Use Policy.
Limitations and Bias
Limitations
- The quality and prompt alignment is lower than that of SDXL-Turbo.
- The generated images are of a fixed resolution (512x512 pix), and the model does not achieve perfect photorealism.
- The model cannot render legible text.
- Faces and people in general may not be generated properly.
- The autoencoding part of the model is lossy.
Recommendations
The model is intended for research purposes only.