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It pairs IdentityNet, a ControlNet conditioned on facial keypoints, with an IP-Adapter fed the face embedding, on top of stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0.\n\nSetup from the card: download ControlNetModel/config.json, ControlNetModel/diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors and ip-adapter.bin from InstantX/InstantID into ./checkpoints; download the InsightFace antelopev2 face models manually into models/antelopev2; pip install opencv-python transformers accelerate insightface; take pipeline_stable_diffusion_xl_instantid.py (StableDiffusionXLInstantIDPipeline, draw_kps) from the InstantID GitHub repository, since it is not part of diffusers. Load ControlNetModel from ./checkpoints/ControlNetModel in float16, build the pipeline from SDXL base 1.0 with that controlnet, move it to CUDA and call load_ip_adapter_instantid(\"./checkpoints/ip-adapter.bin\"). FaceAnalysis(name=\"antelopev2\") with det_size 640x640 detects the face; pass its embedding as image_embeds and draw_kps(face image, keypoints) as image. The example uses set_ip_adapter_scale(0.8) and controlnet_conditioning_scale=0.8 with a weighted negative prompt.\n\nFixes to the card snippet: it loads the photo into image but then reads face_image, so use one name; the largest-face sort key computes (x2-x1)*y2-y1 because of missing parentheses, so use (x2-x1)*(y2-y1); and remove the \"...\" console prompts before running.\n\nTuning, from the card: low likeness, raise both IdentityNet strength (ControlNet scale) and Adapter strength (IP-Adapter scale); oversaturated, lower Adapter strength first, then IdentityNet; weak prompt control, lower Adapter strength; not realistic enough, switch to a more realistic SDXL base model.\n\nLicence: InstantID is Apache-2.0; the antelopev2 models come from InsightFace under their own terms, so check them before commercial use. 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