A1111 compatible model file?

README.md

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 - en
 pipeline_tag: text-to-image
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-# Aesthetic Post-Training Diffusion Models from Generic Preferences with Step-by-step Preference
+# Step-aware Preference Optimization: Aligning Preference with Denoising Performance at Each Step
 
 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04314"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Paper-arXiv-red?style=for-the-badge" height=22.5></a>
 <a href="https://github.com/RockeyCoss/SPO"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Gihub-Code-succees?style=for-the-badge&logo=GitHub" height=22.5></a>
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 ## Abstract
 <p>
-    Generating visually appealing images is fundamental to modern text-to-image generation models. 
-    A potential solution to better aesthetics is direct preference optimization (DPO), 
-    which has been applied to diffusion models to improve general image quality including prompt alignment and aesthetics. 
-    Popular DPO methods propagate preference labels from clean image pairs to all the intermediate steps along the two generation trajectories. 
-    However, preference labels provided in existing datasets are blended with layout and aesthetic opinions, which would disagree with aesthetic preference. 
-    Even if aesthetic labels were provided (at substantial cost), it would be hard for the two-trajectory methods to capture nuanced visual differences at different steps.
+Recently, Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has extended its success from aligning large language models (LLMs) to aligning text-to-image diffusion models with human preferences.
+Unlike most existing DPO methods that assume all diffusion steps share a consistent preference order with the final generated images, we argue that this assumption neglects step-specific denoising performance and that preference labels should be tailored to each step's contribution.
 </p>
+<p> 
+To address this limitation, we propose Step-aware Preference Optimization (SPO), a novel post-training approach that independently evaluates and adjusts the denoising performance at each step, using a <em>step-aware preference model</em> and a <em>step-wise resampler</em> to ensure accurate step-aware supervision.
+Specifically, at each denoising step, we sample a pool of images, find a suitable win-lose pair, and, most importantly, randomly select a single image from the pool to initialize the next denoising step. This step-wise resampler process ensures the next win-lose image pair comes from the same image, making the win-lose comparison independent of the previous step. To assess the preferences at each step, we train a separate step-aware preference model that can be applied to both noisy and clean images.
+</p> 
 <p>
-    To improve aesthetics economically, this paper uses existing generic preference data and introduces step-by-step preference optimization 
-    (SPO) that discards the propagation strategy and allows fine-grained image details to be assessed. Specifically, 
-    at each denoising step, we 1) sample a pool of candidates by denoising from a shared noise latent, 
-    2) use a step-aware preference model to find a suitable win-lose pair to supervise the diffusion model, and 
-    3) randomly select one from the pool to initialize the next denoising step. 
-    This strategy ensures that diffusion models focus on the subtle, fine-grained visual differences 
-    instead of layout aspect. We find that aesthetic can be significantly enhanced by accumulating these 
-    improved minor differences.
-</p>
-<p>
-    When fine-tuning Stable Diffusion v1.5 and SDXL, SPO yields significant 
-    improvements in aesthetics compared with existing DPO methods while not sacrificing image-text alignment 
-    compared with vanilla models. Moreover, SPO converges much faster than DPO methods due to the step-by-step 
-    alignment of fine-grained visual details.
+Our experiments with Stable Diffusion v1.5 and SDXL demonstrate that SPO significantly outperforms the latest Diffusion-DPO in aligning generated images with complex, detailed prompts and enhancing aesthetics, while also achieving more than 20&times; times faster in training efficiency. Code and model: <a ref="https://rockeycoss.github.io/spo.github.io/">https://rockeycoss.github.io/spo.github.io/</a>
 </p>
 
 ## Model Description
 
 This model is fine-tuned from [stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0). It has been trained on 4,000 prompts for 10 epochs.
 
-This is a merged checkpoint that combines the LoRA checkpoint with the base model [stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0). If you want to access the LoRA checkpoint, please visit [SPO-SDXL_4k-p_10ep_LoRA](https://huggingface.co/SPO-Diffusion-Models/SPO-SDXL_4k-p_10ep_LoRA). We also provide a LoRA checkpoint compatible with [stable-diffusion-webui](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui), which can be accessed [here](https://civitai.com/models/510261?modelVersionId=567119).
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 ## A quick example
 ```python
 from diffusers import StableDiffusionXLPipeline, UNet2DConditionModel
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 ## Citation
 If you find our work or codebase useful, please consider giving us a star and citing our work.
 ```
-@article{liang2024step,
-  title={Aesthetic Post-Training Diffusion Models from Generic Preferences with Step-by-step Preference Optimization},
-  author={Liang, Zhanhao and Yuan, Yuhui and Gu, Shuyang and Chen, Bohan and Hang, Tiankai and Cheng, Mingxi and Li, Ji and Zheng, Liang},
-  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.04314},
-  year={2024}
-}
+
 ```