For a newcomer: what do LoRA, DreamBooth and textual inversion each change in an image model, how many example images does each need according to its source, and which source actually covers image models?

Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S10, S11, S12, S13, S14, S15, S16, S17 rest on the producer's pinned reading. Per the sources: textual inversion (Gal et al., arXiv v1) learns one new word embedding and leaves the model's weights frozen, from 'typically 3-5' images; DreamBooth (Ruiz et al., arXiv v2) fine-tunes the diffusion model itself to bind a rare-token identifier plus class noun to a subject from 3-5 images; LoRA (Hu et al., arXiv v2) freezes pre-trained weights and trains small low-rank matrices, but its paper evaluates language models (RoBERTa, DeBERTa, GPT-2, GPT-3), not image generators. Hugging Face diffusers v0.41.0 docs describe all three for Stable Diffusion-family models and provide training scripts, including DreamBooth-with-LoRA. A newcomer should therefore cite the diffusion papers for DreamBooth/textual inversion and treat LoRA-for-diffusion behaviour as documented by diffusers, not by the LoRA paper. Curator qualifications: Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S10, S11, S12, S13, S14, S15, S16, S17 rest on the producer's pinned reading. Curator GET 2026-10-23 of the sources not re-read (mechanical source evidence, not semantic verification): S10: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S11: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S12: HTTP 200, bytes equal to the producer pin; S13: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S14: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S15: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S16: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S17: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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