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# PhotonPipeline

<div class="flex flex-wrap space-x-1">
<img alt="LoRA" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/LoRA-d8b4fe?style=flat"/>
</div>

Photon is a text-to-image diffusion model using simplified MMDIT architecture with flow matching for efficient high-quality image generation. The model uses T5Gemma as the text encoder and supports either Flux VAE (AutoencoderKL) or DC-AE (AutoencoderDC) for latent compression.

Key features:

- **Simplified MMDIT architecture**: Uses a simplified MMDIT architecture for image generation where text tokens are not updated through the transformer blocks
- **Flow Matching**: Employs flow matching with discrete scheduling for efficient sampling
- **Flexible VAE Support**: Compatible with both Flux VAE (8x compression, 16 latent channels) and DC-AE (32x compression, 32 latent channels)
- **T5Gemma Text Encoder**: Uses Google's T5Gemma-2B-2B-UL2 model for text encoding offering multiple language support
- **Efficient Architecture**: ~1.3B parameters in the transformer, enabling fast inference while maintaining quality

## Available models:
We offer a range of **Photon models** featuring different **VAE configurations**, each optimized for generating images at various resolutions.
Both **fine-tuned** and **non-fine-tuned** versions are available:

- **Non-fine-tuned models** perform best with **highly detailed prompts**, capturing fine nuances and complex compositions.
- **Fine-tuned models**, trained on the [Alchemist dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/yandex/alchemist), enhance the **aesthetic quality** of the base models—especially when prompts are **less detailed**.


| Model | Recommended dtype | Resolution | Fine-tuned |
|:-----:|:-----------------:|:----------:|:----------:|
| [`Photoroom/photon-256-t2i`](https://huggingface.co/Photoroom/photon-256-t2i) | `torch.bfloat16` | 256x256 | No |
| [`Photoroom/photon-256-t2i-sft`](https://huggingface.co/Photoroom/photon-256-t2i-sft) | `torch.bfloat16` | 256x256 | Yes |
| [`Photoroom/photon-512-t2i`](https://huggingface.co/Photoroom/photon-512-t2i) | `torch.bfloat16` | 512x512 | No |
| [`Photoroom/photon-512-t2i-sft`](hhttps://huggingface.co/Photoroom/photon-512-t2i-sft) | `torch.bfloat16` | 512x512 | Yes |
| [`Photoroom/photon-512-t2i-dc-ae`](https://huggingface.co/Photoroom/photon-512-t2i-dc-ae) | `torch.bfloat16` | 512x512 | No |
| [`Photoroom/photon-512-t2i-dc-ae-sft`](https://huggingface.co/Photoroom/photon-512-t2i-dc-ae-sft) | `torch.bfloat16` | 512x512 | Yes |

Refer to [this](https://huggingface.co/collections/Photoroom/photon-models-68e66254c202ebfab99ad38e) collection for more information.

## Loading the Pipeline

Photon checkpoints only store the transformer and scheduler weights locally. The VAE and text encoder are automatically loaded from HuggingFace during pipeline initialization:

```py
from diffusers.pipelines.photon import PhotonPipeline

# Load pipeline - VAE and text encoder will be loaded from HuggingFace
pipe = PhotonPipeline.from_pretrained("Photoroom/photon-512-t2i")
pipe.to("cuda")

prompt = "A highly detailed 3D animated scene of a cute, intelligent duck scientist in a futuristic laboratory. The duck stands on a shiny metallic floor surrounded by glowing glass tubes filled with colorful liquids—blue, green, and purple—connected by translucent hoses emitting soft light. The duck wears a tiny white lab coat, safety goggles, and has a curious, determined expression while conducting an experiment. Sparks of energy and soft particle effects fill the air as scientific instruments hum with power. In the background, holographic screens display molecular diagrams and equations. Above the duck’s head, the word “PHOTON” glows vividly in midair as if made of pure light, illuminating the scene with a warm golden glow. The lighting is cinematic, with rich reflections and subtle depth of field, emphasizing a Pixar-like, ultra-polished 3D animation style. Rendered in ultra high resolution, realistic subsurface scattering on the duck’s feathers, and vibrant color grading that gives a sense of wonder and scientific discovery."
image = pipe(prompt, num_inference_steps=28, guidance_scale=4.0).images[0]
image.save("photon_output.png")
```

### Manual Component Loading

You can also load components individually:

```py
from diffusers.pipelines.photon import PhotonPipeline
from diffusers.models import AutoencoderKL
from diffusers.models.transformers.transformer_photon import PhotonTransformer2DModel
from diffusers.schedulers import FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler
from transformers import T5GemmaModel, GemmaTokenizerFast

# Load transformer
transformer = PhotonTransformer2DModel.from_pretrained(
"Photoroom/photon-512-t2i", subfolder="transformer"
)

# Load scheduler
scheduler = FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler.from_pretrained(
"Photoroom/photon-512-t2i", subfolder="scheduler"
)

# Load T5Gemma text encoder
t5gemma_model = T5GemmaModel.from_pretrained("google/t5gemma-2b-2b-ul2")
text_encoder = t5gemma_model.encoder
tokenizer = GemmaTokenizerFast.from_pretrained("google/t5gemma-2b-2b-ul2")

# Load VAE - choose either Flux VAE or DC-AE
# Flux VAE (16 latent channels):
vae = AutoencoderKL.from_pretrained("black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev", subfolder="vae")
# Or DC-AE (32 latent channels):
# vae = AutoencoderDC.from_pretrained("mit-han-lab/dc-ae-f32c32-sana-1.0-diffusers")

pipe = PhotonPipeline(
transformer=transformer,
scheduler=scheduler,
text_encoder=text_encoder,
tokenizer=tokenizer,
vae=vae
)
pipe.to("cuda")
```

## VAE Variants

Photon supports two VAE configurations:

### Flux VAE (AutoencoderKL)
- **Compression**: 8x spatial compression
- **Latent channels**: 16
- **Model**: `black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev` (subfolder: "vae")
- **Use case**: Balanced quality and speed

### DC-AE (AutoencoderDC)
- **Compression**: 32x spatial compression
- **Latent channels**: 32
- **Model**: `mit-han-lab/dc-ae-f32c32-sana-1.0-diffusers`
- **Use case**: Higher compression for faster processing

The VAE type is automatically determined from the checkpoint's `model_index.json` configuration.

## Generation Parameters

Key parameters for image generation:

- **num_inference_steps**: Number of denoising steps (default: 28). More steps generally improve quality at the cost of speed.
- **guidance_scale**: Classifier-free guidance strength (default: 4.0). Higher values produce images more closely aligned with the prompt.
- **height/width**: Output image dimensions (default: 512x512). Can be customized in the checkpoint configuration.

```py
# Example with custom parameters
import torch
from diffusers.pipelines.photon import PhotonPipeline

pipe = pipe(
prompt="A highly detailed 3D animated scene of a cute, intelligent duck scientist in a futuristic laboratory. The duck stands on a shiny metallic floor surrounded by glowing glass tubes filled with colorful liquids—blue, green, and purple—connected by translucent hoses emitting soft light. The duck wears a tiny white lab coat, safety goggles, and has a curious, determined expression while conducting an experiment. Sparks of energy and soft particle effects fill the air as scientific instruments hum with power. In the background, holographic screens display molecular diagrams and equations. Above the duck’s head, the word “PHOTON” glows vividly in midair as if made of pure light, illuminating the scene with a warm golden glow. The lighting is cinematic, with rich reflections and subtle depth of field, emphasizing a Pixar-like, ultra-polished 3D animation style. Rendered in ultra high resolution, realistic subsurface scattering on the duck’s feathers, and vibrant color grading that gives a sense of wonder and scientific discovery.",
num_inference_steps=28,
guidance_scale=4.0,
height=512,
width=512,
generator=torch.Generator("cuda").manual_seed(42)
).images[0]
```

## Memory Optimization

For memory-constrained environments:

```py
import torch
from diffusers.pipelines.photon import PhotonPipeline

pipe = PhotonPipeline.from_pretrained("Photoroom/photon-512-t2i", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload() # Offload components to CPU when not in use

# Or use sequential CPU offload for even lower memory
pipe.enable_sequential_cpu_offload()
```

## PhotonPipeline

[[autodoc]] PhotonPipeline
- all
- __call__

## PhotonPipelineOutput

[[autodoc]] pipelines.photon.pipeline_output.PhotonPipelineOutput
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