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The card's local example uses Qwen-Image-Lightning-8steps-V1.0.safetensors.\n\nDiffusers setup (install diffusers from main): build FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler from num_train_timesteps 1000, use_dynamic_shifting True, time_shift_type \"exponential\", base_image_seq_len 256, max_image_seq_len 8192, base_shift and max_shift both math.log(3) (they used shift 3 during distillation), shift 1.0, shift_terminal None, and beta, exponential and Karras sigmas and stochastic sampling all off. Load Qwen/Qwen-Image in bfloat16 with that scheduler, load the LoRA, and generate with num_inference_steps 8, true_cfg_scale 1.0 and negative_prompt \" \" (the example uses 1024 x 1024).\n\nOther versions, ComfyUI workflows and evaluations are in github.com/ModelTC/Qwen-Image-Lightning; LightX2V is the matching open inference framework. The card also advertises a paid online studio, which runs a different setup (Qwen-Image-2512 with the 2512 Lightning 8-step LoRA). 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The card's local example uses Qwen-Image-Lightning-8steps-V1.0.safetensors.\n\nDiffusers setup (install diffusers from main): build FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler from num_train_timesteps 1000, use_dynamic_shifting True, time_shift_type \"exponential\", base_image_seq_len 256, max_image_seq_len 8192, base_shift and max_shift both math.log(3) (they used shift 3 during distillation), shift 1.0, shift_terminal None, and beta, exponential and Karras sigmas and stochastic sampling all off. Load Qwen/Qwen-Image in bfloat16 with that scheduler, load the LoRA, and generate with num_inference_steps 8, true_cfg_scale 1.0 and negative_prompt \" \" (the example uses 1024 x 1024).\n\nOther versions, ComfyUI workflows and evaluations are in github.com/ModelTC/Qwen-Image-Lightning; LightX2V is the matching open inference framework. The card also advertises a paid online studio, which runs a different setup (Qwen-Image-2512 with the 2512 Lightning 8-step LoRA). 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