---
library_name: diffusers
base_model: stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0
tags:
- lora
- text-to-image
license: openrail++
inference: false
---

# Latent Consistency Model (LCM) LoRA: SDXL

Latent Consistency Model (LCM) LoRA was proposed in [LCM-LoRA: A universal Stable-Diffusion Acceleration Module](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05556) 
by *Simian Luo, Yiqin Tan, Suraj Patil, Daniel Gu et al.*

It is a distilled consistency adapter for [`stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0`](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0) that allows
to reduce the number of inference steps to only between **2 - 8 steps**.

| Model                                                                      | Params / M | 
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------|
| [lcm-lora-sdv1-5](https://huggingface.co/latent-consistency/lcm-lora-sdv1-5)   | 67.5        |
| [lcm-lora-ssd-1b](https://huggingface.co/latent-consistency/lcm-lora-ssd-1b)   | 105        |
| [**lcm-lora-sdxl**](https://huggingface.co/latent-consistency/lcm-lora-sdxl) | **197M**  |

## Usage

LCM-LoRA is supported in 🤗 Hugging Face Diffusers library from version v0.23.0 onwards. To run the model, first 
install the latest version of the Diffusers library as well as `peft`, `accelerate` and `transformers`.
audio dataset from the Hugging Face Hub:

```bash
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade diffusers transformers accelerate peft
```

***Note: For detailed usage examples we recommend you to check out our official [LCM-LoRA docs](https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/main/en/using-diffusers/inference_with_lcm_lora)***

### Text-to-Image

The adapter can be loaded with it's base model `stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0`. Next, the scheduler needs to be changed to [`LCMScheduler`](https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/v0.22.3/en/api/schedulers/lcm#diffusers.LCMScheduler) and we can reduce the number of inference steps to just 2 to 8 steps.
Please make sure to either disable `guidance_scale` or use values between 1.0 and 2.0.

```python
import torch
from diffusers import LCMScheduler, AutoPipelineForText2Image

model_id = "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0"
adapter_id = "latent-consistency/lcm-lora-sdxl"

pipe = AutoPipelineForText2Image.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.float16, variant="fp16")
pipe.scheduler = LCMScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config)
pipe.to("cuda")

# load and fuse lcm lora
pipe.load_lora_weights(adapter_id)
pipe.fuse_lora()

prompt = "Self-portrait oil painting, a beautiful cyborg with golden hair, 8k"

# disable guidance_scale by passing 0
image = pipe(prompt=prompt, num_inference_steps=4, guidance_scale=0).images[0]
```

![](./image.png)

### Inpainting

LCM-LoRA can be used for inpainting as well. 

```python
import torch
from diffusers import AutoPipelineForInpainting, LCMScheduler
from diffusers.utils import load_image, make_image_grid

pipe = AutoPipelineForInpainting.from_pretrained(
    "diffusers/stable-diffusion-xl-1.0-inpainting-0.1",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    variant="fp16",
).to("cuda")

# set scheduler
pipe.scheduler = LCMScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config)

# load LCM-LoRA
pipe.load_lora_weights("latent-consistency/lcm-lora-sdxl")
pipe.fuse_lora()

# load base and mask image
init_image = load_image("https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/inpaint.png").resize((1024, 1024))
mask_image = load_image("https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/inpaint_mask.png").resize((1024, 1024))

prompt = "a castle on top of a mountain, highly detailed, 8k"
generator = torch.manual_seed(42)
image = pipe(
    prompt=prompt,
    image=init_image,
    mask_image=mask_image,
    generator=generator,
    num_inference_steps=5,
    guidance_scale=4,
).images[0]
make_image_grid([init_image, mask_image, image], rows=1, cols=3)
```

![](https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/lcm/lcm_sdxl_inpainting.png)


## Combine with styled LoRAs

LCM-LoRA can be combined with other LoRAs to generate styled-images in very few steps (4-8). In the following example, we'll use the LCM-LoRA with the [papercut LoRA](TheLastBen/Papercut_SDXL). 
To learn more about how to combine LoRAs, refer to [this guide](https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/tutorials/using_peft_for_inference#combine-multiple-adapters).

```python
import torch
from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline, LCMScheduler

pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0",
    variant="fp16",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16
).to("cuda")

# set scheduler
pipe.scheduler = LCMScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config)

# load LoRAs
pipe.load_lora_weights("latent-consistency/lcm-lora-sdxl", adapter_name="lcm")
pipe.load_lora_weights("TheLastBen/Papercut_SDXL", weight_name="papercut.safetensors", adapter_name="papercut")

# Combine LoRAs
pipe.set_adapters(["lcm", "papercut"], adapter_weights=[1.0, 0.8])

prompt = "papercut, a cute fox"
generator = torch.manual_seed(0)
image = pipe(prompt, num_inference_steps=4, guidance_scale=1, generator=generator).images[0]
image
```

![](https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/lcm/lcm_sdx_lora_mix.png)

### ControlNet

```python
import torch
import cv2
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image

from diffusers import StableDiffusionXLControlNetPipeline, ControlNetModel, LCMScheduler
from diffusers.utils import load_image

image = load_image(
    "https://hf.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/input_image_vermeer.png"
).resize((1024, 1024))

image = np.array(image)

low_threshold = 100
high_threshold = 200

image = cv2.Canny(image, low_threshold, high_threshold)
image = image[:, :, None]
image = np.concatenate([image, image, image], axis=2)
canny_image = Image.fromarray(image)

controlnet = ControlNetModel.from_pretrained("diffusers/controlnet-canny-sdxl-1.0-small", torch_dtype=torch.float16, variant="fp16")
pipe = StableDiffusionXLControlNetPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0",
    controlnet=controlnet,
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    safety_checker=None,
    variant="fp16"
).to("cuda")

# set scheduler
pipe.scheduler = LCMScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config)

# load LCM-LoRA
pipe.load_lora_weights("latent-consistency/lcm-lora-sdxl")
pipe.fuse_lora()

generator = torch.manual_seed(0)
image = pipe(
    "picture of the mona lisa",
    image=canny_image,
    num_inference_steps=5,
    guidance_scale=1.5,
    controlnet_conditioning_scale=0.5,
    cross_attention_kwargs={"scale": 1},
    generator=generator,
).images[0]
make_image_grid([canny_image, image], rows=1, cols=2)
```

![](https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/lcm/lcm_sdxl_controlnet.png)


<Tip>
The inference parameters in this example might not work for all examples, so we recommend you to try different values for `num_inference_steps`, `guidance_scale`, `controlnet_conditioning_scale` and `cross_attention_kwargs` parameters and choose the best one. 
</Tip>

### T2I Adapter

This example shows how to use the LCM-LoRA with the [Canny T2I-Adapter](TencentARC/t2i-adapter-canny-sdxl-1.0) and SDXL.

```python
import torch
import cv2
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image

from diffusers import StableDiffusionXLAdapterPipeline, T2IAdapter, LCMScheduler
from diffusers.utils import load_image, make_image_grid

# Prepare image
# Detect the canny map in low resolution to avoid high-frequency details
image = load_image(
    "https://huggingface.co/Adapter/t2iadapter/resolve/main/figs_SDXLV1.0/org_canny.jpg"
).resize((384, 384))

image = np.array(image)

low_threshold = 100
high_threshold = 200

image = cv2.Canny(image, low_threshold, high_threshold)
image = image[:, :, None]
image = np.concatenate([image, image, image], axis=2)
canny_image = Image.fromarray(image).resize((1024, 1024))

# load adapter
adapter = T2IAdapter.from_pretrained("TencentARC/t2i-adapter-canny-sdxl-1.0", torch_dtype=torch.float16, varient="fp16").to("cuda")

pipe = StableDiffusionXLAdapterPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0", 
    adapter=adapter,
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    variant="fp16", 
).to("cuda")

# set scheduler
pipe.scheduler = LCMScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config)

# load LCM-LoRA
pipe.load_lora_weights("latent-consistency/lcm-lora-sdxl")

prompt = "Mystical fairy in real, magic, 4k picture, high quality"
negative_prompt = "extra digit, fewer digits, cropped, worst quality, low quality, glitch, deformed, mutated, ugly, disfigured"

generator = torch.manual_seed(0)
image = pipe(
    prompt=prompt,
    negative_prompt=negative_prompt,
    image=canny_image,
    num_inference_steps=4,
    guidance_scale=1.5, 
    adapter_conditioning_scale=0.8, 
    adapter_conditioning_factor=1,
    generator=generator,
).images[0]
make_image_grid([canny_image, image], rows=1, cols=2)
```

![](https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/lcm/lcm_sdxl_t2iadapter.png)


## Speed Benchmark

TODO

## Training

TODO