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(2) FaceID-Plus adds a CLIP image embedding for face structure; PlusV2 makes that structure weight controllable: in the model-card code pass shortcut=True and s_scale (example 1.0) to generate(). (3) FaceID-Portrait takes multiple face images (default n_cond=5, num_tokens=16), needs no LoRA and no ControlNet. (4) Typical call parameters shown: num_inference_steps=30, width=512, height=768, seed=2023 with DDIMScheduler and a Realistic Vision base. Failure modes. The card itself says generalisation is limited by training data, base model and face-recognition model. Rights. The card states the FaceID models are research-only because InsightFace pretrained models are non-commercial; InsightFace's README says its trained models and annotated data are non-commercial research only, and (2025-11-24 update) directs licensing requests for buffalo_l to the vendor. Limitations. 'Experimental' per the card; no quantitative identity scores in these sources. Version/date. 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