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# Self-Attention Guidance

[Improving Sample Quality of Diffusion Models Using Self-Attention Guidance](https://huggingface.co/papers/2210.00939) is by Susung Hong et al.

The abstract from the paper is:

*Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have attracted attention for their exceptional generation quality and diversity. This success is largely attributed to the use of class- or text-conditional diffusion guidance methods, such as classifier and classifier-free guidance. In this paper, we present a more comprehensive perspective that goes beyond the traditional guidance methods. From this generalized perspective, we introduce novel condition- and training-free strategies to enhance the quality of generated images. As a simple solution, blur guidance improves the suitability of intermediate samples for their fine-scale information and structures, enabling diffusion models to generate higher quality samples with a moderate guidance scale. Improving upon this, Self-Attention Guidance (SAG) uses the intermediate self-attention maps of diffusion models to enhance their stability and efficacy. Specifically, SAG adversarially blurs only the regions that diffusion models attend to at each iteration and guides them accordingly. Our experimental results show that our SAG improves the performance of various diffusion models, including ADM, IDDPM, Stable Diffusion, and DiT. Moreover, combining SAG with conventional guidance methods leads to further improvement.*

You can find additional information about Self-Attention Guidance on the [project page](https://ku-cvlab.github.io/Self-Attention-Guidance), [original codebase](https://github.com/KU-CVLAB/Self-Attention-Guidance), and try it out in a [demo](https://huggingface.co/spaces/susunghong/Self-Attention-Guidance) or [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/SusungHong/Self-Attention-Guidance/blob/main/SAG_Stable.ipynb).

<Tip>

Make sure to check out the Schedulers [guide](../../using-diffusers/schedulers) to learn how to explore the tradeoff between scheduler speed and quality, and see the [reuse components across pipelines](../../using-diffusers/loading#reuse-a-pipeline) section to learn how to efficiently load the same components into multiple pipelines.

</Tip>

## StableDiffusionSAGPipeline
[[autodoc]] StableDiffusionSAGPipeline
	- __call__
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## StableDiffusionOutput
[[autodoc]] pipelines.stable_diffusion.StableDiffusionPipelineOutput
