# Flux
Flux is a series of text-to-image generation models based on diffusion transformers. To know more about Flux, check out the original [blog post](https://blackforestlabs.ai/announcing-black-forest-labs/) by the creators of Flux, Black Forest Labs.
Original model checkpoints for Flux can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs). Original inference code can be found [here](https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux).
Flux can be quite expensive to run on consumer hardware devices. However, you can perform a suite of optimizations to run it faster and in a more memory-friendly manner. Check out [this section](https://huggingface.co/blog/sd3#memory-optimizations-for-sd3) for more details. Additionally, Flux can benefit from quantization for memory efficiency with a trade-off in inference latency. Refer to [this blog post](https://huggingface.co/blog/quanto-diffusers) to learn more. For an exhaustive list of resources, check out [this gist](https://gist.github.com/sayakpaul/b664605caf0aa3bf8585ab109dd5ac9c).
Flux comes in two variants:
* Timestep-distilled (`black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell`)
* Guidance-distilled (`black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev`)
Both checkpoints have slightly difference usage which we detail below.
### Timestep-distilled
* `max_sequence_length` cannot be more than 256.
* `guidance_scale` needs to be 0.
* As this is a timestep-distilled model, it benefits from fewer sampling steps.
```python
import torch
from diffusers import FluxPipeline
pipe = FluxPipeline.from_pretrained("black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
prompt = "A cat holding a sign that says hello world"
out = pipe(
prompt=prompt,
guidance_scale=0.,
height=768,
width=1360,
num_inference_steps=4,
max_sequence_length=256,
).images[0]
out.save("image.png")
```
### Guidance-distilled
* The guidance-distilled variant takes about 50 sampling steps for good-quality generation.
* It doesn't have any limitations around the `max_sequence_length`.
```python
import torch
from diffusers import FluxPipeline
pipe = FluxPipeline.from_pretrained("black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
prompt = "a tiny astronaut hatching from an egg on the moon"
out = pipe(
prompt=prompt,
guidance_scale=3.5,
height=768,
width=1360,
num_inference_steps=50,
).images[0]
out.save("image.png")
```
## Single File Loading for the `FluxTransformer2DModel`
The `FluxTransformer2DModel` supports loading checkpoints in the original format shipped by Black Forest Labs. This is also useful when trying to load finetunes or quantized versions of the models that have been published by the community.
`FP8` inference can be brittle depending on the GPU type, CUDA version, and `torch` version that you are using. It is recommended that you use the `optimum-quanto` library in order to run FP8 inference on your machine.
The following example demonstrates how to run Flux with less than 16GB of VRAM.
First install `optimum-quanto`
```shell
pip install optimum-quanto
```
Then run the following example
```python
import torch
from diffusers import FluxTransformer2DModel, FluxPipeline
from transformers import T5EncoderModel, CLIPTextModel
from optimum.quanto import freeze, qfloat8, quantize
bfl_repo = "black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev"
dtype = torch.bfloat16
transformer = FluxTransformer2DModel.from_single_file("https://huggingface.co/Kijai/flux-fp8/blob/main/flux1-dev-fp8.safetensors", torch_dtype=dtype)
quantize(transformer, weights=qfloat8)
freeze(transformer)
text_encoder_2 = T5EncoderModel.from_pretrained(bfl_repo, subfolder="text_encoder_2", torch_dtype=dtype)
quantize(text_encoder_2, weights=qfloat8)
freeze(text_encoder_2)
pipe = FluxPipeline.from_pretrained(bfl_repo, transformer=None, text_encoder_2=None, torch_dtype=dtype)
pipe.transformer = transformer
pipe.text_encoder_2 = text_encoder_2
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
prompt = "A cat holding a sign that says hello world"
image = pipe(
prompt,
guidance_scale=3.5,
output_type="pil",
num_inference_steps=20,
generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(0)
).images[0]
image.save("flux-fp8-dev.png")
```
## FluxPipeline
[[autodoc]] FluxPipeline
- all
- __call__