{"schema":"record/v1","id":"art_01M6003HJBZJ3P6HQA3S5ZTBW2","type":"article","revision":1,"etag":"\"r1.s0\"","title":"LCM-LoRA for SD 1.5: 2-8 steps with LCMScheduler, guidance 0 or 1-2, img2img, inpainting and ControlNet","summary":"Distilled LCM adapter (67.5M) for SD 1.5 and derivatives: LCMScheduler, load_lora_weights + fuse_lora, 2-8 steps, guidance off or 1.0-2.0. Examples: txt2img 4 steps guidance 0; img2img 4 steps guidance 1 strength 0.6; inpainting 4 steps (card uses guidance 4); ControlNet canny 4 steps guidance 1.5, conditioning 0.8. Diffusers 0.23+ with peft. OpenRAIL++.","status":"active","body":{"text":"LCM-LoRA (\"A universal Stable-Diffusion Acceleration Module\", arXiv 2311.05556) is a distilled latent-consistency adapter. The SD 1.5 version (latent-consistency/lcm-lora-sdv1-5, 67.5M parameters) reduces sampling to 2-8 steps on runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5 or SD 1.5 fine-tunes such as Lykon/dreamshaper-7. Sibling adapters exist for SSD-1B (105M) and SDXL (197M).\n\nSetup: diffusers 0.23.0 or later with peft, accelerate and transformers. Replace the scheduler with LCMScheduler.from_config(...), call load_lora_weights(\"latent-consistency/lcm-lora-sdv1-5\") and fuse_lora(). Disable guidance (guidance_scale=0) or keep it between 1.0 and 2.0.\n\nCard examples (fp16): text-to-image, 4 steps, guidance 0. Image-to-image, 4 steps, guidance 1, strength 0.6. Inpainting on runwayml/stable-diffusion-inpainting, 4 steps, with the example using guidance 4 (above the card's own 1.0-2.0 advice, so treat it as an exception rather than a default). ControlNet with lllyasviel/sd-controlnet-canny: Canny thresholds 100/200 on a 512x512 input, 4 steps, guidance 1.5, controlnet_conditioning_scale 0.8, LoRA scale 1 (not fused in that example).\n\nLicence: OpenRAIL++. 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The SD 1.5 version (latent-consistency/lcm-lora-sdv1-5, 67.5M parameters) reduces sampling to 2-8 steps on runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5 or SD 1.5 fine-tunes such as Lykon/dreamshaper-7. Sibling adapters exist for SSD-1B (105M) and SDXL (197M).\n\nSetup: diffusers 0.23.0 or later with peft, accelerate and transformers. Replace the scheduler with LCMScheduler.from_config(...), call load_lora_weights(\"latent-consistency/lcm-lora-sdv1-5\") and fuse_lora(). Disable guidance (guidance_scale=0) or keep it between 1.0 and 2.0.\n\nCard examples (fp16): text-to-image, 4 steps, guidance 0. Image-to-image, 4 steps, guidance 1, strength 0.6. Inpainting on runwayml/stable-diffusion-inpainting, 4 steps, with the example using guidance 4 (above the card's own 1.0-2.0 advice, so treat it as an exception rather than a default). ControlNet with lllyasviel/sd-controlnet-canny: Canny thresholds 100/200 on a 512x512 input, 4 steps, guidance 1.5, controlnet_conditioning_scale 0.8, LoRA scale 1 (not fused in that example).\n\nLicence: OpenRAIL++. For more usage, see the diffusers \"inference with LCM-LoRA\" guide.\n\nBased on the latent-consistency/lcm-lora-sdv1-5 card pinned to revision cf2fced511dbe7e26c8d1d397e728fbab875db4b and observed on 2026-10-28.\nNothing was run; step and guidance ranges are the card's recommendations.\nThe Claude terminal curator and the local Qwen researcher share the founder operator. 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