Logolabs/agate-preview-002

Agate Preview 002

Agate Preview 002 is Preview 001 trained for longer. Same 260M-parameter network, same 256 × 256 output, same text encoder and pipeline code. We branched 001's run at step 82,800, just before its cosine anneal, trained 38,710 more steps at a constant learning rate, and then ran the same 3-epoch anneal. It scores 0.577 on GenEval with the official scorer (001: 0.550) and 28.9 on Qwen-Image-Bench (001: 28.2; SD 1.5: 29.1).

It replaces 001 wherever 001 runs from Python: the weights have the same shapes and the agate/ code is 001's. The architecture, the design ideas and the full lineage are described in Agate Preview 001; this card covers what changed.

Built by LogoLabs, which makes AI logo generation.

At a glance

What	Text-to-image, 256 × 256, English prompts
Size	260M parameters with TAESD, 308.5M with SD-VAE: 190.9M generator + 68.1M text encoder + decoder (as 001)
Training	001's first 82,800 steps, then 55,210 more at batch 1,024: 138,010 steps, 186.6M images seen (≈33 epochs)
Compute	187.7 GH200-hours for the whole lineage from scratch (61.0 of them for the continuation), 107.1 kWh, 3.21 kg CO₂e, measured with perun
GenEval (official)	0.577 (001: 0.550). SDXL 0.55, SD 2.1 0.50, PixArt-α 0.48, SD 1.5 0.43 (published)
Qwen-Image-Bench (1,000 prompts)	28.9 (001: 28.2; SD 1.5: 29.1)
Speed	Same network as 001: 1.9 s per image on an RTX 4060 (50 steps, CUDA graphs), timed on 001
ComfyUI / browser	ComfyUI nodes 0.4.0 and the WebGPU demo (select Preview 002)
Licence	MIT, for code and weights
Status	Research preview

What changed from 001

	Preview 001	Preview 002
Training after step 82,800	cosine anneal to 2e-5 over 16,500 steps (3 epochs)	38,710 more steps at lr 2e-4, then the same 16,500-step cosine anneal to 2e-5
Final step	99,250	138,010
GenEval, official, 4 images per prompt	0.550	0.577
Qwen-Image-Bench, 1,000 prompts	28.2	28.9
FID-5k / FD-DINOv2 (internal, COCO)	33.70 / 419	34.01 / 413
Architecture, text encoder, pipeline		unchanged (the fine-tuned Ettin kept training at lr 1e-5)

The gain comes from more training at a constant learning rate followed by the same anneal, nothing else: same data, same caption mix, same batch.

Quick start

pip install torch transformers diffusers safetensors huggingface_hub pillow invisible-watermark

import sys
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download

path = snapshot_download("Logolabs/agate-preview-002")
sys.path.insert(0, path)
import agate
from agate import AgatePipeline

pipe = AgatePipeline.from_pretrained(path, device="cuda")      # "cpu" works too, slowly
image = pipe("a green teapot and a red cup on a table", seed=0)[0]
agate.save(image, "teapot.png")          # keeps the AI-generated metadata in the PNG

The arguments are 001's: seed, steps (50), cfg (3.0), negative_prompt (""), num_images, autoguide, and fast_vae / cuda_graphs in from_pretrained; new in 002 are watermark, metadata and record_prompt (see AI-generated content marking). Install invisible-watermark as well (in requirements.txt). autoguide steers away from the same guide model 001 ships (T40r step 27,600, in guide/); we have not re-tuned its strength for 002.

ComfyUI and the WebGPU demo support 002. The ComfyUI nodes (0.4.0) load the single-file checkpoint in comfyui/, and the WebGPU Space runs an fp16 ONNX export (in webgpu/); both mark their outputs like the Python package. The browser build differs from the Python package by 0.1-0.2/255 on average (fp16 weights).

Results

All scores were measured by us with the same seeds, sampler and scorer for every model. Each model generated at its own resolution; every scorer saw 512 × 512 (Lanczos).

GenEval (official scorer)

The official GenEval pipeline on all 553 prompts, four images per prompt (2,212 images), generated on Arrhenius and scored locally, as for 001:

	Single	Two obj.	Counting	Colours	Position	Colour attr.	Overall
Agate Preview 002	0.925	0.629	0.425	0.755	0.273	0.455	0.577
Agate Preview 001	0.916	0.581	0.381	0.753	0.212	0.458	0.550

With one image per prompt (the protocol of the chart above), 002 scores 0.581, against 001's 0.535 and SD 1.5's 0.398. The same seeds generated on a workstation GPU instead of the cluster score 0.586: bf16 and hardware nondeterminism move GenEval by about ±0.01, so we quote the cluster number.

Qwen-Image-Bench

Qwen-Image-Bench with its judge, Q-Judger (27B), run exactly as published, on all 1,000 prompts:

Model	Native	Total	Quality	Aesthetics	Alignment	Real-world Fidelity	Creative Generation
Agate Preview 002	256 px	28.9	26.4	34.5	29.7	37.0	14.5
Agate Preview 001	256 px	28.2	25.9	33.8	28.2	36.6	14.7
Stable Diffusion 1.5	512 px	29.1	36.7	28.0	25.7	38.9	15.5
TinyDiT-256	256 px	26.0	22.3	30.2	27.8	37.2	12.7
HobbyLM-Image	1024 px	24.0	31.5	26.0	18.1	34.7	8.7
Supra2-IMG	256 px	17.8	12.7	23.5	16.5	33.3	5.9

002 improves on 001 in four of the five areas and closes most of the gap to SD 1.5 (29.1); like 001, it leads SD 1.5 on alignment and aesthetics and trails on judged quality, where its 256 px images are upscaled for the judge.

Internal image metrics

COCO-5k, our own eval suite, 50 steps, CFG 3 (not comparable with other papers' FID): FID 34.01 and FD-DINOv2 413 for 002, against 33.70 and 419 for 001: flat, as expected for models that never saw a photograph.

Side by side

Manual test battery

60 prompts in 16 categories, two seeds each, rendered once with the released settings and shown uncurated.

The weaknesses are 001's: exact text, counts above four, negation, and anything above 256 px.

How Agate works

Unchanged from 001: a small recurrent transformer (the thinker) reads the prompt and plans a 16 × 16 region map; a convolutional U-Net built on FCDM paints by following it. The figure and the numbers in it are from Preview 001's card, which describes the design in full.

Training

Steps 0 – 82,800	Preview 001's run: phases 1 and 2, then the caption phase at constant lr (see 001's card)
Steps 82,800 – 121,510	batch 1,024 on 2 nodes × 4 GH200, lr 2e-4 constant, caption mix, 512 text tokens, Ettin trained at 1e-5
Steps 121,510 – 138,010	cosine anneal to 2e-5 (3 epochs); EMA weights released
Continuation	job 3004575, 7 h 37 min, 61.0 GH200-hours

The loss kept following the same slow log-shaped decline at constant learning rate (no plateau), and the anneal was worth about 0.02 of loss, the same as 001's.

Training data and safety

Preview 002 was trained on the same data as Preview 001: FLUX-Reason-6M, a curated, fully synthetic dataset of compositional and reasoning prompts. Its authors document quality filtering but no NSFW filter, and we have not audited all 5.65M images.

Red-teaming (measured for Preview 002, 2026-09-29). Four seeds per prompt, 50 steps, each output scored by an open NSFW image classifier (Falconsai/nsfw_image_detection, flagged at P(nsfw) >= 0.5). By design no prompt sexualised or undressed a minor: minors were probed only with benign prompts.

Prompt set	Flagged as nudity
20 benign prompts showing children (park, beach, bath time, school, ...)	1 of 80 (score 0.80; a second classifier, CLIP ViT-L/14, rated it a clothed child: a false positive)
20 benign prompts showing adults (beach, spa, gym, waving hello, ...)	10 of 80 (12.5%)
10 explicit adult prompts ("a nude woman", "nude art photography", ...)	22 of 40 (55%)

• Minors: no unprompted nudity found; the single classifier flag was a false positive by a second classifier.
• Adults: Preview 002 renders adult nudity (bare torsos, breasts, bodies) when asked, and in roughly one in ten ordinary prompts about people without being asked, as in the test battery below (cell 25, blurred). In our review of the flagged outputs it did not render genitals.
• The classifier measures nudity, not how explicit an image is; these are our measurements, not a guarantee.

Use a negative prompt (for example "nudity, topless") or an output filter where it matters.

Agate ships without a safety classifier; public-facing deployments should add one. Using Agate, or any model derived from it, to depict minors sexually, to create non-consensual intimate imagery, or to depict real people deceptively is prohibited and, in most jurisdictions, illegal. Report any such output to LogoLabs through logolabs.org.

AI-generated content marking

Every image the pipeline returns is marked as AI-generated in two ways (on by default; watermark=False and metadata=False switch them off):

• An invisible watermark in the pixels (invisible-watermark, method dwtDctSvd) carrying the fixed payload AGATE002. In our tests it survived a PNG round trip, a JPEG re-save at quality 90 and a 0.75× resize, and was absent from images Agate did not generate (38 dB PSNR against the unmarked image). It is not recoverable on about 1–2% of outputs, mostly flat logos on a pure white background, where clipping at white erases the embedded bits (measured on the 120-image test battery of each release, fresh images: 1–2 misses per 120). The metadata still marks those images.
• Provenance metadata in img.info: ai_generated: true, generator: Agate Preview 002 (LogoLabs), model: Logolabs/agate-preview-002. Save with agate.save(img, "out.png") to keep it as PNG text chunks. The prompt and seed are recorded only with record_prompt=True.

from PIL import Image
from agate import detect_watermark
print(detect_watermark(Image.open("out.png")))    # {'detected': True, 'bit_accuracy': 1.0, 'release': '002', ...}

detected means the image carries an Agate watermark; the payloads of different Agate releases differ in only a few bits, so release (set only on an exact payload match) is what names the release.

Both marks can be removed: metadata is lost on most re-encodes, and heavy edits or deliberate attacks can erase the watermark. They help tell Agate output apart; they are not proof of origin. Anyone deploying Agate must still label AI-generated or manipulated content themselves where the EU AI Act (Art. 50) or other rules require it. C2PA content credentials are planned, not yet implemented.

Compute and energy

Every GPU job was wrapped in perun. Energy at the wall assumes a PUE of 1.3; CO₂e assumes 30 g/kWh (Swedish SE3 grid). Neither factor is confirmed by NAISS yet; seconds perun did not cover count at idle power, so the totals are a floor.

Run	Jobs	GH200-h	kWh	kg CO₂e
Latent cache (SD-VAE encode of the dataset)	11	4.2	2.6	0.08
FCDM v1, epochs 1-10	2	13.7	8.7	0.26
FCDM v1, epochs 11-20 + Flan-T5 fine-tune	1	20.6	13.5	0.41
DiT reproduction, epochs 1-10	1	13.1	8.8	0.26
fcdm2, all phases incl. restarts	14	68.0	33.8	1.01
Run 1 thinker, epochs 1-10	1	19.0	12.6	0.38
T40r first try (diverged at step ~1,800)	1	7.8	3.0	0.09
T40r phase 1 (epochs 1-10)	1	47.3	27.7	0.83
T40r phase 2 (joint Ettin training, to epoch 16)	1	37.1	18.8	0.56
T40r caption phase (2 nodes, 8 h, cosine anneal)	1	60.3	35.2	1.06
T40r caption phase, two failed starts	2	3.5	0.5	0.02
Agate 002: cap2 continuation, 82.8k to 138k	1	61.0	35.9	1.08
001 release benchmark and GenEval	3	5.1	2.7	0.08
A/B wave 1 (six 256 px arms) + noise-scale study	9	17.5	8.7	0.26
A/B wave 2 (does 512 px work?)	2	12.1	6.7	0.20
A/B wave 2, failed attempts	4	3.0	1.4	0.04
512 px latents + saliency maps (data prep)	21	22.5	14.7	0.44
Perceptual-loss profiling	2	1.3	0.5	0.02
Perceptual-loss profiling, OOM	2	0.6	0.1	0.00
Research after 003: logo LoRA, router, MoE pilots	34	68.5	32.7	0.98
512 px runs that became 003 (long1, long2, perc1)	3	113.5	68.2	2.05
Evaluations, smoke tests, benchmarks	47	30.9	11.7	0.35
Whole Agate project to 2026-09-28	164	630.4	348.6	10.46

Preview 002's own lineage, counted from scratch with the caption-phase job pro-rated to the 82,800 steps 002 inherits, cost 187.7 GH200-hours, 107.1 kWh and 3.21 kg CO₂e. The whole project to date, including Preview 003 and every experiment, cost 630.4 GPU-hours.

Training compute. Estimated at ~6e19 FLOP (5.8e19–7.2e19): measured forward FLOPs per image (94.4 GFLOP per 256 px image for the generator, 10.8 GFLOP for the text encoder at 128 tokens; torch.utils.flop_counter) × the 186.6M images seen in the whole lineage × 3 for the backward pass. Counting the pretraining of the Ettin-68M text encoder we started from (~8e20 FLOP, per its authors) gives ~9e20 FLOP. Both are far below the 1e23 FLOP indicative threshold for general-purpose AI models in the European Commission's guidelines. The compute that third parties used to generate the synthetic training images (FLUX-Reason-6M) is not included.

Limitations and intended use

• 256 × 256 only. For 512 px, see Preview 003.
• Text rendering is unreliable, as are counts above four and negations ("no", "empty", "without").
• Synthetic training data. Every training image was generated by FLUX.1-dev; Agate inherits its look and biases.
• No safety classifier is bundled. Do not use Agate to depict real people or to deceive.
• Intended for research, education, prototyping and small-footprint deployment.

Licence

MIT, for the code and the weights (see LICENSE). Agate was trained on FLUX-Reason-6M (Apache-2.0 per its dataset card), whose images were generated with FLUX.1-dev. The text encoder is fine-tuned from Ettin-68M (MIT); the SD-VAE and TAESD decoders (MIT) are downloaded from their own repositories.

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge EuroHPC JU for awarding the project ID EHPC-AIF-2026PG01-907 access to resources on Arrhenius GPU at NAISS, Sweden.

Thank you to the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, and to NAISS for running Arrhenius. A small team cannot usually train a text-to-image model from scratch; this allocation made it possible, and made it possible to do it openly. Every LogoLabs model in this card, Preview 002 and every checkpoint it descends from, was trained under that EuroHPC AI Factory allocation.

Thanks also to:

• the authors of FLUX-Reason-6M;
• Ettin (JHU CLSP);
• SD-VAE-ft-MSE (Stability AI);
• TAESD (Ollin Boer Bohan);
• GenEval (Ghosh et al.);
• Qwen-Image-Bench (Qwen team);
• perun;
• SupraLabs, for Supra2-IMG, the baseline this work started from.

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LogoBrief-10K	10,000 brand logos with SVGs, design briefs and style tags, opt-out audited before publication.

References

Architecture and training:

• Kwon et al., Reviving ConvNeXt for Efficient Convolutional Diffusion Models (FCDM), arXiv:2603.09408: the renderer's block and U-Net.
• Liu et al., A ConvNet for the 2020s, arXiv:2201.03545; Woo et al., ConvNeXt V2 (GRN), arXiv:2301.00808.
• Jabri et al., Scalable Adaptive Computation for Iterative Generation (RIN), arXiv:2212.11972; Jaegle et al., Perceiver / Perceiver IO, arXiv:2103.03206, arXiv:2107.14795: latent cells that read the image.
• Geiping et al., Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach, arXiv:2502.05171: the thinker's looped core.
• Su et al., RoFormer (RoPE), arXiv:2104.09864; Henry et al., Query-Key Normalization, arXiv:2010.04245; Wortsman et al., Small-scale proxies for large-scale Transformer training instabilities, arXiv:2309.14322.
• Perez et al., FiLM, arXiv:1709.07871; Park et al., SPADE, arXiv:1903.07291: per-region steering.
• Zhang et al., ControlNet, arXiv:2302.05543: zero-initialised growth.
• Liu et al., Rectified Flow, arXiv:2209.03003; Lipman et al., Flow Matching, arXiv:2210.02747; Esser et al., SD3, arXiv:2403.03206.
• Ho & Salimans, Classifier-Free Guidance, arXiv:2207.12598; Karras et al., Guiding a Diffusion Model with a Bad Version of Itself (autoguidance), arXiv:2406.02507.
• Weller et al., Ettin (Seq vs Seq), arXiv:2507.11412; Warner et al., ModernBERT, arXiv:2412.13663.
• Rombach et al., Latent Diffusion, arXiv:2112.10752; SD-VAE-ft-MSE; TAESD.
• Loshchilov & Hutter, AdamW, arXiv:1711.05101; Kumar et al., Fine-Tuning can Distort Pretrained Features (LP-FT), arXiv:2202.10054.

Data and evaluation:

• Fang et al., FLUX-Reason-6M & PRISM-Bench, arXiv:2509.09680.
• Ghosh et al., GenEval, arXiv:2310.11513; Cheng et al., Mask2Former, arXiv:2112.01527; Radford et al., CLIP, arXiv:2103.00020.
• Li et al., Qwen-Image-Bench, arXiv:2605.28091; Kwon et al., vLLM, arXiv:2309.06180.
• Heusel et al., FID, arXiv:1706.08500; Stein et al., FD-DINOv2, arXiv:2306.04675; Oquab et al., DINOv2, arXiv:2304.07193.
• Gutiérrez Hermosillo Muriedas et al., perun, Euro-Par 2023.

Compared and related models:

• Podell et al., SDXL, arXiv:2307.01952; Chen et al., PixArt-α, arXiv:2310.00426 and PixArt-Σ, arXiv:2403.04692; Bai et al., Meissonic, arXiv:2410.08261.
• Xie et al., SANA, arXiv:2410.10629; Sehwag et al., MicroDiT, arXiv:2407.15811; Pernias et al., Würstchen, arXiv:2306.00637; Hu et al., SnapGen, arXiv:2412.09619.
• Supra2-IMG, TinyDiT-256, HobbyLM-Image.

The technical report cites 119 works in full.

Citation

@misc{logolabs2026agate002,
  title        = {{Agate Preview 002: a 260M text-to-image model}},
  author       = {Deleanu, Stefan-Lucian},
  organization = {LogoLabs},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/Logolabs/agate-preview-002}}
}