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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 by the creators of Flux, Black Forest Labs.

Original model checkpoints for Flux can be found here. Original inference code can be found here.

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 for more details. Additionally, Flux can benefit from quantization for memory efficiency with a trade-off in inference latency. Refer to this blog post to learn more. For an exhaustive list of resources, check out this gist.

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.
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.
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")

Running FP16 inference

Flux can generate high-quality images with FP16 (i.e. to accelerate inference on Turing/Volta GPUs) but produces different outputs compared to FP32/BF16. The issue is that some activations in the text encoders have to be clipped when running in FP16, which affects the overall image. Forcing text encoders to run with FP32 inference thus removes this output difference. See here for details.

FP16 inference code:

import torch
from diffusers import FluxPipeline

pipe = FluxPipeline.from_pretrained("black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16) # can replace schnell with dev
# to run on low vram GPUs (i.e. between 4 and 32 GB VRAM)
pipe.enable_sequential_cpu_offload()
pipe.vae.enable_slicing()
pipe.vae.enable_tiling()

pipe.to(torch.float16) # casting here instead of in the pipeline constructor because doing so in the constructor loads all models into CPU memory at once

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")

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

pip install optimum-quanto

Then run the following example

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

class diffusers.FluxPipeline

< >

( scheduler: FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler vae: AutoencoderKL text_encoder: CLIPTextModel tokenizer: CLIPTokenizer text_encoder_2: T5EncoderModel tokenizer_2: T5TokenizerFast transformer: FluxTransformer2DModel )

Parameters

  • transformer (FluxTransformer2DModel) — Conditional Transformer (MMDiT) architecture to denoise the encoded image latents.
  • scheduler (FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler) — A scheduler to be used in combination with transformer to denoise the encoded image latents.
  • vae (AutoencoderKL) — Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) Model to encode and decode images to and from latent representations.
  • text_encoder (CLIPTextModel) — CLIP, specifically the clip-vit-large-patch14 variant.
  • text_encoder_2 (T5EncoderModel) — T5, specifically the google/t5-v1_1-xxl variant.
  • tokenizer (CLIPTokenizer) — Tokenizer of class CLIPTokenizer.
  • tokenizer_2 (T5TokenizerFast) — Second Tokenizer of class T5TokenizerFast.

The Flux pipeline for text-to-image generation.

Reference: https://blackforestlabs.ai/announcing-black-forest-labs/

__call__

< >

( prompt: Union = None prompt_2: Union = None height: Optional = None width: Optional = None num_inference_steps: int = 28 timesteps: List = None guidance_scale: float = 7.0 num_images_per_prompt: Optional = 1 generator: Union = None latents: Optional = None prompt_embeds: Optional = None pooled_prompt_embeds: Optional = None output_type: Optional = 'pil' return_dict: bool = True joint_attention_kwargs: Optional = None callback_on_step_end: Optional = None callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs: List = ['latents'] max_sequence_length: int = 512 ) → ~pipelines.flux.FluxPipelineOutput or tuple

Parameters

  • prompt (str or List[str], optional) — The prompt or prompts to guide the image generation. If not defined, one has to pass prompt_embeds. instead.
  • prompt_2 (str or List[str], optional) — The prompt or prompts to be sent to tokenizer_2 and text_encoder_2. If not defined, prompt is will be used instead
  • height (int, optional, defaults to self.unet.config.sample_size * self.vae_scale_factor) — The height in pixels of the generated image. This is set to 1024 by default for the best results.
  • width (int, optional, defaults to self.unet.config.sample_size * self.vae_scale_factor) — The width in pixels of the generated image. This is set to 1024 by default for the best results.
  • num_inference_steps (int, optional, defaults to 50) — The number of denoising steps. More denoising steps usually lead to a higher quality image at the expense of slower inference.
  • timesteps (List[int], optional) — Custom timesteps to use for the denoising process with schedulers which support a timesteps argument in their set_timesteps method. If not defined, the default behavior when num_inference_steps is passed will be used. Must be in descending order.
  • guidance_scale (float, optional, defaults to 7.0) — Guidance scale as defined in Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance. guidance_scale is defined as w of equation 2. of Imagen Paper. Guidance scale is enabled by setting guidance_scale > 1. Higher guidance scale encourages to generate images that are closely linked to the text prompt, usually at the expense of lower image quality.
  • num_images_per_prompt (int, optional, defaults to 1) — The number of images to generate per prompt.
  • generator (torch.Generator or List[torch.Generator], optional) — One or a list of torch generator(s) to make generation deterministic.
  • latents (torch.FloatTensor, optional) — Pre-generated noisy latents, sampled from a Gaussian distribution, to be used as inputs for image generation. Can be used to tweak the same generation with different prompts. If not provided, a latents tensor will ge generated by sampling using the supplied random generator.
  • prompt_embeds (torch.FloatTensor, optional) — Pre-generated text embeddings. Can be used to easily tweak text inputs, e.g. prompt weighting. If not provided, text embeddings will be generated from prompt input argument.
  • pooled_prompt_embeds (torch.FloatTensor, optional) — Pre-generated pooled text embeddings. Can be used to easily tweak text inputs, e.g. prompt weighting. If not provided, pooled text embeddings will be generated from prompt input argument.
  • output_type (str, optional, defaults to "pil") — The output format of the generate image. Choose between PIL: PIL.Image.Image or np.array.
  • return_dict (bool, optional, defaults to True) — Whether or not to return a ~pipelines.flux.FluxPipelineOutput instead of a plain tuple.
  • joint_attention_kwargs (dict, optional) — A kwargs dictionary that if specified is passed along to the AttentionProcessor as defined under self.processor in diffusers.models.attention_processor.
  • callback_on_step_end (Callable, optional) — A function that calls at the end of each denoising steps during the inference. The function is called with the following arguments: callback_on_step_end(self: DiffusionPipeline, step: int, timestep: int, callback_kwargs: Dict). callback_kwargs will include a list of all tensors as specified by callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs.
  • callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs (List, optional) — The list of tensor inputs for the callback_on_step_end function. The tensors specified in the list will be passed as callback_kwargs argument. You will only be able to include variables listed in the ._callback_tensor_inputs attribute of your pipeline class.
  • max_sequence_length (int defaults to 512) — Maximum sequence length to use with the prompt.

Returns

~pipelines.flux.FluxPipelineOutput or tuple

~pipelines.flux.FluxPipelineOutput if return_dict is True, otherwise a tuple. When returning a tuple, the first element is a list with the generated images.

Function invoked when calling the pipeline for generation.

Examples:

>>> import torch
>>> from diffusers import FluxPipeline

>>> pipe = FluxPipeline.from_pretrained("black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
>>> pipe.to("cuda")
>>> prompt = "A cat holding a sign that says hello world"
>>> # Depending on the variant being used, the pipeline call will slightly vary.
>>> # Refer to the pipeline documentation for more details.
>>> image = pipe(prompt, num_inference_steps=4, guidance_scale=0.0).images[0]
>>> image.save("flux.png")

encode_prompt

< >

( prompt: Union prompt_2: Union device: Optional = None num_images_per_prompt: int = 1 prompt_embeds: Optional = None pooled_prompt_embeds: Optional = None max_sequence_length: int = 512 lora_scale: Optional = None )

Parameters

  • prompt (str or List[str], optional) — prompt to be encoded
  • prompt_2 (str or List[str], optional) — The prompt or prompts to be sent to the tokenizer_2 and text_encoder_2. If not defined, prompt is used in all text-encoders device — (torch.device): torch device
  • num_images_per_prompt (int) — number of images that should be generated per prompt
  • prompt_embeds (torch.FloatTensor, optional) — Pre-generated text embeddings. Can be used to easily tweak text inputs, e.g. prompt weighting. If not provided, text embeddings will be generated from prompt input argument.
  • pooled_prompt_embeds (torch.FloatTensor, optional) — Pre-generated pooled text embeddings. Can be used to easily tweak text inputs, e.g. prompt weighting. If not provided, pooled text embeddings will be generated from prompt input argument.
  • lora_scale (float, optional) — A lora scale that will be applied to all LoRA layers of the text encoder if LoRA layers are loaded.
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