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Open-sourcing Knowledge Distillation Code and Weights of SD-Small and SD-Tiny

Stable Diffusion just got 10x smaller. Here's how open-sourcing distillation changes the efficiency game.

Reporting by Hugging Face Blog 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Knowledge distillation of Stable Diffusion into SD-Small and SD-Tiny variants democratizes efficient image generation, enabling deployment on edge devices and reducing compute costs—a critical capability battle in the race to make generative AI accessible and economical.

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  1. Open-sourced knowledge distillation code and weights

  2. SD-Small and SD-Tiny variants released

  3. Focus on model compression and efficiency

  4. Published August 1, 2023 on Hugging Face

  5. Enables edge device deployment

  6. Reduces inference compute requirements

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