VUvunderba·Dec 1, 2023
I'd also recommend InvokeAI, an open source offering which has a very nice editable canvas and is very performant with diffusers.
https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI
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InvokeAI
Invoke is a leading creative engine that uses image and video generation models to empower professionals, artists, and enthusiasts to generate and create visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies. The solution offers an industry-leading application interface, and serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products.
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Invoke is a leading creative engine that uses image and video generation models to empower professionals, artists, and enthusiasts to generate and create visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies. The solution offers an industry-leading application interface, and serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products.
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Give InvokeAI a try. https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI Edit: Spec required from the documentation You will need one of the following: An NVIDIA-based graphics card with 4…
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11 sourceshttps://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI - runs on Mac silicon, can squeeze out SDXL images on a 16gb mac with SSD-1B or Turbo models.
In Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offlineThere are already a number of local, inference options that are (crucially) open-source, with more robust feature sets.
And if the defense here is "but Auto1111 and Comfy don't have as user-friendly a UI", that's also already covered. https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI
In Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offlinehttps://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI should work on your machine. For LLM models, the smaller ones should run using llama.cpp, but I don't think you'll be happy comparing them to ChatGPT.
In Ask HN: Selfhosted ChatGPT and Stable-diffusion like alternatives?Double check your facts there I think InvokeAI support SDXL
See https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/releases
I believe invoke supports caching and a number of interesting features this release.
In Accelerating Stable Diffusion XL Inference with Jax on Cloud TPU v5eShow HN: Open-Source SDXL UI – Invoke AI 3.0.1
1 points · Open discussionGive InvokeAI a try.
https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI
Edit: Spec required from the documentation
You will need one of the following:
An NVIDIA-based graphics card with 4 GB or more VRAM memory. 6-8 GB of VRAM is highly recommended for rendering using the Stable Diffusion XL models
An Apple computer with an M1 chip.
An AMD-based graphics card with 4GB or more VRAM memory (Linux only), 6-8 GB for XL rendering.
In Stable Diffusion XL 1.0Show HN: 3.0 Version of Invoke AI – open-source SD UI and Node-based Back end [video]
Hey all -
Invoke started as one of the earliest Stable Diffusion UIs (you may remember it as “lstein”), and has evolved significantly into a full fledged react/typescript web app.
We’ve been hard at work building a professional-grade backend to support our commercial move to serving businesses and enterprise with a hosted offering (invoke.ai), while keeping Invoke one of the best ways to self-host and create content as an open-core project.
As of 3.0, all of the developments we’ve been working on and tweaking for our hosted environment are available to install and use locally, including an API and graph-based execution architecture - And, to demonstrate our commitment to free and open-source software, we’ve updated our license to the most explicitly permissive license available - Apache 2.0.
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New SD Support in our 3.0 Version:
- SDXL Sup
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port - We’ve implemented support the impending SDXL model architecture (And the current 0.9 model), and we’ll follow-up with streamlined SDXL support in the core UI interfaces once the 1.0 model is released.
- ControlNet - Integrated support for the most popular ControlNet models, directly in the UI, with a simple processor preview and UI/UX.
- Boards - Expanded gallery support to better organize and manage large scale images. Multi-select, drag & drop to anywhere in the UI, and backed by a local database to provide performant operations even when you’re thousands of images deep.
- Expanded Schedulers - Rather than list all of them here… All the schedulers/samplers you know and love, with the ability to set favorites and disable those you’ll never use.
- Model Flexibility - Swap your VAE on demand. Mix and match models as needed. Clip Skip. With the flexibility of the experimental Node Editor, you can even swap models mid-generation.
- LoRA Enhancements - Full LoRA support (for all the Lo’s and Ly’s you can name), we’ve also added a mechanism which directly patches the model UNet on loading a LoRA. Test for yourself.
- UI/UX Updates - Across the board, we’ve worked to clean up the UI, optimize the options panel for the most commonly used features, and left a number of the tiny little microinteractions across the app that make using Invoke easy for your workflow. It’s our best UI yet, hands down. And more is coming.
- Node Editor (Experimental) - The main reason 3.0 took as long as it did (5 months!) is because we disassembled the entire backend of the application, and put it back together one “node” at a time. It’s clean, streamlined, and scalable. This sets us up to drive powerful advanced experiences for power users and gives an easy way for contributors to extend the capabilities of Invoke. The Node Editor that exposes all of the available functionality in the background is in an “experimental” status, for explorers and developers - Mainly because we have a lot of UI/UX polish we want to apply to it, and provide better ways to help less experienced users be successful with it!
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*Up Next*
More is coming. We have plans to extend on many of the core UI/UX experiences in the application, add more community resources for sharing new plug-ins/nodes, and will release the full version of the Node Editor in 3.1. Stay tuned!
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Whether you're a dev looking to build on or contribute to the project, a professional looking for pro-grade tools to incorporate into your workflow, or just looking for a great open-source SD experience, we're looking forward to you joining our community.
You can get the latest version on GitHub https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/releases
For base tooling, things like:
https://huggingface.co/ (finding models and downloading them)
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp (llama)
https://github.com/cmp-nct/ggllm.cpp (falcon)
For interactive work (art/chat/research/playing around), things like:
https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main... (llama) (Also - they just added a decent chat server built into llama.cpp the project)
https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI (stable-diffusion)
Plus a bunch of hacked together scripts.
Some example models (I'm linking to quantized versions that someone else has made, but the tooling is in the above repos to create them from the published fp16 models)
https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/llama-65B-GGML
https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/falcon-40b-instruct-GPTQ
https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Wizard-Vicuna-30B-Uncensored...
etc.
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Hugging face has quite a number, although some require filling out forms for the base models for tuning/training.
Hey all - InvokeAI maintainer here. A few folks mentioned us in other comments, so posting a few steps to try out this model locally.
Our Repo: https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI
You will need one of the following:
An NVIDIA-based graphics card with 4 GB or more VRAM memory.
An Apple computer with an M1 chip.
Installation Instructions: https://invoke-ai.github.io/InvokeAI/installation/
Download the model from Huggingface, add it through our Model Mgmt UI, and then start prompting.
Discord: https://discord.gg/invokeai-the-stable-diffusion-toolkit-102...
Also, will plug we're actively looking for people who want to contribute to our project! Hope you enjoy using the tool.
In OpenJourney: Midjourney, but Open SourceInvokeAI Version 2.2.5 – A Stable Diffusion Toolkit
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