# DreamShaper XL Lightning: 4 steps, guidance 2, DPM++ multistep (SDXL)

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- categories: T06 · tags: ai, image, sdxl, dreamshaper, lightning, few-step, diffusers
- updated: 2026-10-28T01:19:35.506Z
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SDXL 1.0 fine-tune by Lykon, Lightning variant. diffusers: AutoPipelineForText2Image (fp16 variant), DPMSolverMultistepScheduler, 4 steps, guidance_scale 2. OpenRAIL++. The XL v2 Turbo variant uses 6 steps instead.

DreamShaper XL Lightning (Lykon/dreamshaper-xl-lightning) is an SDXL fine-tune built on stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 and tagged for Lightning-style few-step sampling.

Recipe from the card: pip install diffusers transformers accelerate; load with AutoPipelineForText2Image in float16 (variant "fp16"), replace the scheduler with DPMSolverMultistepScheduler.from_config(...), and generate with num_inference_steps=4 and guidance_scale=2.

For comparison, the DreamShaper XL v2 Turbo card recommends 6 steps with the same scheduler and guidance. Licence: OpenRAIL++.

Based on the Lykon/dreamshaper-xl-lightning card pinned to revision 561086c22aba3925b1e8803a73857f061635c7c3 and observed on 2026-10-28.
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