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+☁️ Hello, this is Ether Blu Mix 🔵
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+This is a simple mix aimed at providing a semi-realistic anime style while retaining the knowledge trained on Danbooru-styled tags. Though its base model, AOM3, is fit for anime styled illustrations it's capable of other aesthetics with the correct style of prompting.
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+The mix also biases towards females and feminine faces, likely due to their prominence within the models as well as the anime aesthetic leaning towards feminine\androgynous faces.
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+▼ Generation Guidelines
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+Use whatever sampler, steps, cfg you prefer.
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+Sample images were generated with
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+Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras
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+Steps: 28
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+CFG: 7
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+Clip Skip: 1
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+*WARNING*
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+Please input "NSFW" in the negative prompt to reduce instances of unprompted nudity. Due to the models used within the merge there's a bias in generating NSFW imagery.
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+Negative Prompt Example:
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+"NSFW, (worst quality, low quality:1.3), watermark, signature"
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+Most sample images were further upscaled using AUTO1111 Hi-res fix. Please utilize it if you wish to achieve similar results.
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+Latent (nearest-exact)
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+Upscale by: 2
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+Denoising strength: 0.55
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+Prompting Advice:
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+Use short prompts mixing prose and danbooru-styled tags. Experiment and give the AI some freedom. When in doubt, change up your prompting style.
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+General guidelines:
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+Prompt in anime\danbooru-style models
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+More anime style images
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+Prompt in photography\non-anime models
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+More realistic images
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+The sample images were generated using Waifu Diffusion VAE kl-f8-anime2. This VAE is not mandatory. Please use whichever VAE you prefer.
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+▼ Model Merging
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+I have no training or real knowledge on machine learning. I merged the model using the information provided on WarriorMama777's AOM model page. I very arbitrarily used the UBM weights given to merge and create AOM3 and its derivatives and modified the values with trial and error until I was visually happy with it.
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+I utilized the SuperMerger extension for AUTO1111 by hako-mikan.
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+▼ Merging
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+MODEL A: AOM3.safetensors
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+MODEL B: Chilloutmix_fp16.safetensors
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+Weight Sum merge - Use MBW
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+Alpha: 1
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+0,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0,0,0,0,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0,0
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+Model: AOM3-ChilloutSumS2-03
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+▼
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+MODEL A: AOM3-ChilloutSumS2-03
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+MODEL B: deliberate_v2.ckpt
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+Weight Sum merge - Use MBW
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+Alpha: 1
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+0,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0,0,0,0,0.2,0.1,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.2,0.2,0.1,0.2,0.2,0.2
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+Model: AOM3-ChilloutSumS2-03-DelibV2SumS1-02
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+▼
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+MODEL A: AOM3-ChilloutSumS2-03-DelibV2SumS1-02
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+MODEL B: pastelmix-better-vae-fp16.safetensors
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+Weight Sum merge - Use MBW
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+Alpha: 1
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+0,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0,0,0,0,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0,0
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+Final Model: EBM-v1
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+Models Used:
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+AOM3.safetensors
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+D124FC18F0232D7F0A2A70358CDB1288AF9E1EE8596200F50F0936BE59514F6D
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+chilloutmix_NiPrunedFp16Fix.safetensors
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+59FFE2243A25C9FE137D590EB3C5C3D3273F1B4C86252DA11BBDC9568773DA0C
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+deliberate_v2.ckpt
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+9ABA26ABDFCD46073E0A1D42027A3A3BCC969F562D58A03637BF0A0DED6586C9
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+pastelmix-better-vae-fp16.safetensors
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+D01A68AE76F97506363F387F5F28BB564AD9E20924844FD5945E600B72D39E79
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+Credits:
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+Thank you to WarriorMama777 for providing AOM and other various mixes as well as detailing your workflow and inspiring me to try mixing my own models.
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+Thank you to hako-mikan for creating the SuperMerger extension allowing a quicker workflow for merging.
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+Thank you to the creator of ChilloutMix.
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+Thank you to XpucT for creating Deliberate.
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+Thank you to andite for Pastel-Mix.
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+Thank you to AUTO1111 for creating the web UI everyone uses.
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+Thank you to StabilityAI for starting everything with Stable Diffusion.
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+Thank you to the entire SD community for continuing to openly share and create.