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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.
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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.
The key facts
6 to knowOpen-sourced knowledge distillation code and weights
SD-Small and SD-Tiny variants released
Focus on model compression and efficiency
Published August 1, 2023 on Hugging Face
Enables edge device deployment
Reduces inference compute requirements
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