# Summary of Stable Diffusion embedding format This file is to be a quick reference for SD embedding file formats. Note: there are a bunch of files here that have "embedding" in their names. However, they cannot be used as Stable Diffusion Embeddings. I do include some tools, such as *generate-embedding.py* and *generate-embeddingXL.py*, that are intended to explore the actual inference tool formatted embedding file types. Therefore, I'm taking some time to document the little I know about the format of those files ## Stable Diffusion v1.5 Note that SD 1.5 has a different format for embeddings than SDXL. And within SD 1.5, there are two different formats ### SD 1.5 pickletensor embed format I have observed that .pt embeddings have a dict-of-dicts type format. It looks something like this: [ "string_to_token": {'doesntmatter': 265}, # I dont know why 265, but it usually is "string_to_param": {'doesntmatter': tensor([][768])}, "name": *string*, "step": *string*, "sd_checkpoint": *string*, "sd_checkpoint_name": *string* ] (Note that *string* can be None) ### SD 1.5 safetensor embed format The ones I have seen, have a much simpler format. It is a trivial format compared to SD 1.5: { "emb_params": Tensor([][768])} According to https://github.com/Stability-AI/ModelSpec?tab=readme-ov-file there is supposed to be metadata embedding in the safetensor format, but I havent found a clean way to read it yet. Expected standard slots for metadata info are: "modelspec.title": "(name for this embedding)", "modelspec.architecture": "stable-diffusion-v1/textual-inversion", "modelspec.thumbnail": "(data:image/jpeg;base64,/9jxxxxxxxxx)" ## SDXL embed format (safetensor) This has an actual spec at: https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/using-diffusers/textual_inversion_inference But it's pretty simple. summary: { "clip_l": Tensor([][768]), "clip_g": Tensor([][1280]) }