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# Text-to-image

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  <img alt="LoRA" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/LoRA-d8b4fe?style=flat"/>
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The Stable Diffusion model was created by researchers and engineers from [CompVis](https://github.com/CompVis), [Stability AI](https://stability.ai/), [Runway](https://github.com/runwayml), and [LAION](https://laion.ai/). The [`StableDiffusionPipeline`] is capable of generating photorealistic images given any text input. It's trained on 512x512 images from a subset of the LAION-5B dataset. This model uses a frozen CLIP ViT-L/14 text encoder to condition the model on text prompts. With its 860M UNet and 123M text encoder, the model is relatively lightweight and can run on consumer GPUs. Latent diffusion is the research on top of which Stable Diffusion was built. It was proposed in [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://huggingface.co/papers/2112.10752) by Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Dominik Lorenz, Patrick Esser, Björn Ommer.

The abstract from the paper is:

*By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a guiding mechanism to control the image generation process without retraining. However, since these models typically operate directly in pixel space, optimization of powerful DMs often consumes hundreds of GPU days and inference is expensive due to sequential evaluations. To enable DM training on limited computational resources while retaining their quality and flexibility, we apply them in the latent space of powerful pretrained autoencoders. In contrast to previous work, training diffusion models on such a representation allows for the first time to reach a near-optimal point between complexity reduction and detail preservation, greatly boosting visual fidelity. By introducing cross-attention layers into the model architecture, we turn diffusion models into powerful and flexible generators for general conditioning inputs such as text or bounding boxes and high-resolution synthesis becomes possible in a convolutional manner. Our latent diffusion models (LDMs) achieve a new state of the art for image inpainting and highly competitive performance on various tasks, including unconditional image generation, semantic scene synthesis, and super-resolution, while significantly reducing computational requirements compared to pixel-based DMs. Code is available at https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion.*

> [!TIP]
> Make sure to check out the Stable Diffusion [Tips](overview#tips) section to learn how to explore the tradeoff between scheduler speed and quality, and how to reuse pipeline components efficiently!
>
> If you're interested in using one of the official checkpoints for a task, explore the [CompVis](https://huggingface.co/CompVis) and [Stability AI](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai) Hub organizations!

## StableDiffusionPipeline

[[autodoc]] StableDiffusionPipeline
	- all
	- __call__
	- enable_attention_slicing
	- disable_attention_slicing
	- enable_vae_slicing
	- disable_vae_slicing
	- enable_xformers_memory_efficient_attention
	- disable_xformers_memory_efficient_attention
	- enable_vae_tiling
	- disable_vae_tiling
	- load_textual_inversion
	- from_single_file
	- load_lora_weights
	- save_lora_weights

## StableDiffusionPipelineOutput

[[autodoc]] pipelines.stable_diffusion.StableDiffusionPipelineOutput
