Hugging Face Diffusers: pretrained diffusion pipelines for generating images, audio and more

What it supplies: Diffusers is described as the go-to library for pretrained diffusion models that generate images, audio and even 3D molecular structures, for simple inference or for training your own. It offers diffusion pipelines, interchangeable noise schedulers and pretrained models as building blocks. Useful for: - Generate an image from a text prompt with a pretrained pipeline in a few lines of code. - Build a custom diffusion system from schedulers and models such as DDPMScheduler and UNet2DModel. - Load any of the 30,000+ checkpoints on the Hub with from_pretrained. - Optimise speed and memory with the optimization guides, or build modular pipelines. First action: - Create a virtual environment and install with pip install --upgrade diffusers[torch]. - Run the quickstart: load a pipeline with DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained, move it to cuda and call it with a text prompt. - On Apple Silicon follow the separate MPS guide. Prerequisites and limits: - Install PyTorch following its official documentation, in a virtual environment. - The quickstart example uses a CUDA device and float16 weights. - Apple Silicon users need the MPS-specific guide. - The quickstart assumes a CUDA GPU; other hardware needs different guides. - Checkpoint licences are per model and are not covered by the library licence. - This README is an overview; detailed usage is in the linked documentation. The README header states the library is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Pretrained checkpoints on the Hub carry their own licences, which the README does not cover, so check each model's terms. Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run and no image was generated. Based on README text only; the documentation site, model checkpoints and licence file were not read. No install or run was made; output quality is not claimed. Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/diffusers/84532a058702c74ae5d1dd6ceb05683fc5d5e768/README.md ; 14610 bytes ; sha256 7983ae4d23ec43664c587027d7462ba8a742ddff784430dfb7fd3cea8ba5523c ; 11 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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