v0.9.5.3c img2img validations for the sdxl refiner

What's Changed

• sdxl refiner: option --sdxl_refiner_uses_full_range for training on all timesteps by @bghira in #401
• sdxl refiner: ability to validate on images using 20% denoise strength
• deepfloyd: stage II eval fixes
• factory should sleep when waiting for text embed write by @bghira in #402
• fixes #351 by adding --variant option by @bghira in #403
• more toolkit options for captioning: gemini pro, blip3 by @bghira in #404

Full Changelog: v0.9.5.3b...v0.9.5.3c

v0.9.5.3b - SDXL refiner training

What's Changed

• SDXL refiner training support - LoRA and full u-net. Can't reuse the text embeds from the base model, you must use a different directory.
• validations: completely refactored workflow
• huggingface hub: now can use --push_checkpoints_to_hub to upload all intermediary checkpoints
• dropout: improve implementation to bypass any issues with tokenizer setup that might result in an incorrect embed. by @bghira in #388
• lr schedules: polynomial fixed / last_epoch being set correctly for the rest
• parquet backend will ignore missing captions
• deepfloyd: text encoder loading fixed
• sd2.x: tested, bugfixed. uncond text embeds excluded from zeroing
• huggingface hub: improved model card, --push_checkpoints_to_hub will push every saved model and validation image (tested with 168 validation prompts)
• mps: new pytorch nightly, resolves some strange issues before.
• mps: use 'auto' slice width for sd 2.x instead of null
• validations: refactored logic entirely, cleaned up and simplified to tie-in with huggingface hub uploader
• timestep schedule is segmented by train_batch_size now, ensuring we hit a more broad distribution of timestep sampling for each mini-batch by @bghira in #391
• follow-up fixes from botched v0.9.5.3 build by @bghira in #397

Full Changelog: v0.9.5.2...v0.9.5.3b

v0.9.5.2 - hugging face hub upload fixes/improvements, minor vae encoding fixes

What's Changed

• huggingface hub model upload improvement / fixes
• validations double-run fix
• json backend image size microconditioning input fix (SDXL) by @bghira in #385
• bitfit restrictions / model freezing simplification
• updates to huggingface hub integration, automatically push model card and weights
• webhooks: minor log level fixes, other improvements. ability to debug image cropping by sending them to discord.
• resize and crop fixes for json and parquet backend edge cases (VAE encode in-flight) by @bghira in #386

Full Changelog: v0.9.5.1...v0.9.5.2

v0.9.5.1

What's Changed

• parquet: follow-up metadata handling fixes
• legacy trainer: memory leak fix in text embed generation for large datasets
• vae cache: fix the check for current vs first aspect bucket by @bghira in #383

Full Changelog: v0.9.5...v0.9.5.1

v0.9.5 - now with more robust flavour

Finetuning Terminus XL Velocity v2

What's Changed

• New cropping logic is now working across the board for parquet/json backends. Images are always cropped now, even when cropped=false, if necessary to maintain 8px or 64px alignment with the resulting dataset.
  • Resulting image sizes and aspect ratios did not change for resolution_type=area
  • Resulting image sizes and aspect ratios did change for resolution_type=pixel
  • This was necessary to avoid stretching/squeezing images when aligning to 64px interval
• Discord webhook support, see the TUTORIAL for information.
• "Sensible defaults" are now set for minimum_image_size, maximum_image_size, and target_downsample_size to avoid unexpected surprises mostly when using crop=true, but also for some benefits when using crop=false as well.
• Image upscaling restrictions have been relaxed, but it will refuse to upscale an image beyond 25%, and instead asks you to change the dataset configuration values.
• Image quality when training SDXL models has substantially improved thanks to the minimisation of the microconditioning input ranges:
  
  Finetuning a particularly poorly-performing Terminus checkpoint with reduced high frequency patterning
• Single subject dreambooth was benchmarked on SDXL with 30 diverse images, achieving great results in just 500 steps.

Commits

• Convert image to accepted format for calculate_luminance by @Beinsezii in #376
• vae cache fix for SDXL / legacy SD training
• epoch / resume step fix for a corner case where the path to the training data includes the dataset name by @bghira in #377
• when crop=false, we will crop from the intermediary size to the target size instead of squishing
• set default min_image_size, maximum_image_size, and target_downsample_size values to 100%, 150%, and 150% of the value set for resolution by @bghira in #378
• resolved bugged-out null embed when dropout is disabled
• discord webhook support
• cuda/rocm: bugfix for eval on final legacy (sd 1.5/2.1) training validations
• avoid stretching/squeezing images by always cropping to maintain 8/64px alignment
• set default values for minimum_image_size, maximum_image_size, and target_downsample_size by @bghira in #379

Full Changelog: v0.9.5-beta...v0.9.5-beta2

v0.9.5-beta - optimized training, 3x speed-up

What's Changed

This release includes an experimental rewrite of the image handling code. Please report any issues.

• flexible pixel resize to 8 or 64 px alignment, no more rounding up where unnecessary by @bghira in #368
• more deepfloyd stage II fixes for model evaluation by @bghira in #369
• AMD/ROCm support by @Beinsezii in #373
• TrainingSample: refactor and encapsulate image handling, improving performance and reliability by @bghira in #374
• fix --aspect_bucket_rounding not being applied correctly
• rebuild image sample handling to be structured object-oriented logic
• fix early epoch exit problem
• max epochs vs max steps ambiguity reduced by setting default to 0 for one of them
• fixes for LoRA text encoder save/load hooks
• optimise trainer
• 300% performance gain by removing the torch anomaly detector
• fix dataset race condition where a single image dataset was not being detected
• AMD documentation for install, dependencies thanks to Beinsezii
• fix for wandb timestep distribution chart values racing ahead of reality by @bghira in #375

Full Changelog: v0.9.4...v0.9.5-beta

v0.9.4 - the deepest of floyds

(DeepFloyd stage I LoRA trained using v0.9.4)

What's Changed

• parquet: fix aspect bucketing
• json: mild optimisation
• llava: add 1.6 support
• pillow: fix deprecations by @bghira in #350
• (#343) fix for image backend load failure by @bghira in #352
• sdxl: validations fix at the end
• more example scripts for the toolkit
• --aspect_bucket_rounding by @bghira in #359
• DeepFloyd IF Stage II and II LoRA/full u-net training by @bghira in #361
• Add Dockerfile by @komninoschatzipapas in #353
• multi-res validations via --validation_resolution=1024,1024x1536,...
• disable torch inductor by default

New Contributors

• @komninoschatzipapas made their first contribution in #353

Full Changelog: v0.9.3.4...v0.9.4

v0.9.3.4 - parquet/multi-gpu improvements

What's Changed

• bugfix: multigpu training would gradually erode aspect bucket list by saving splitted version
• add --lora_init_type argument
• multi-gpu optimisations
• parquet backend speedup by 100x by @bghira in #349

Full Changelog: v0.9.3.3...v0.9.3.4

v0.9.3.3 - faster startup

What's Changed

• multigpu fixes - logging, startup, resume, validation
• regression fixes - torch tensor dtype error during CUDA validations
• better image detection - "missing images" occur less frequently/not at all
• tested jpg/png mixed datasets
• face detection documentation updates
• higher NCCL timeout
• diffusers update to v0.27.2
• mps pytorch nightly 2.4 by @bghira in #346

Full Changelog: v0.9.3.2...v0.9.3.3

v0.9.3.2

What's Changed

• Added face crop_style option to use cv2 for face cropping. Experimental.
• Fixed some typos and documentation updates.

Commits

• doc updates, fixes, face detection cropping by @bghira in #345

Full Changelog: v0.9.3.1...v0.9.3.2