edge-maxxing-newdream-sdxl

This holds the baseline for the SDXL Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 contest, which can be forked freely and optimized

Some recommendations are as follows:

Installing dependencies should be done in pyproject.toml, including git dependencies
HuggingFace models should be specified in the models array in the pyproject.toml file, and will be downloaded before benchmarking
- The pipeline does not have internet access so all dependencies and models must be included in the pyproject.toml
- Compiled models should be hosted on HuggingFace and included in the models array in the pyproject.toml (rather than compiling during loading). Loading time matters far more than file sizes
Avoid changing src/main.py, as that includes mostly protocol logic. Most changes should be in models and src/pipeline.py
Ensure the entire repository (excluding dependencies and HuggingFace models) is under 16MB

For testing, you need a docker container with pytorch and ubuntu 22.04. You can download your listed dependencies with uv, installed with:

pipx ensurepath
pipx install uv

You can then relock with uv lock, and then run with uv run start_inference