Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion VS Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion-cpu

Tons of stuff here, no? https://github.com/JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion/

Joe Penna's Dreambooth (Tutorial|24GB) Most popular DB repo with great results.

1) The https://github.com/JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion instructions say to use the 1.5 checkpoints - is that the latest? Can I use the 2+ models or?

I quickly turned to the second library, https://github.com/JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion, because its readme was very encouraging, and its results were the best. Unfortunately, to use it on Colab, you need to sign up for Colab Pro to use advanced GPUs (at least 24GB of VRAM), and training a model requires at least 14 compute units. As a poor Chinese person, I could only buy Colab Pro from a proxy. The results from JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion were fantastic, and the preparation was straightforward, requiring only <=20 512*512 photos without writing captions. I used it to create many beautiful photos.

I've found EveryDream to be brilliant and have switched from JoePenna's Dreambooth because I've found I get better results so long as I provide good captions for all the images, even if preparing the dataset takes 3x as long (took me 2 hours to crop and label the 54 images).

From what I know you can train with whatever size you want. But you need software that will support it. For example, ShivamShrirao/diffusers repo seems to allow a change of dimension. Also, you need HW that would support the training, because bigger images need more VRAM, for example,Joe Penna repo is using ~23GB with 512x512px so probably it's not a valid option. But the ShivamShrirao repo has optimizations that allow to run it with less VRAM.

This is a good starting place: https://github.com/JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion

I got a GTX 1650 with 4GB VRAM, which isn't really that good for training. My i5-4670 isn't the most efficient either, but it would still be possible to use. Is the CPU only option in the regular dreambooth out do I have to get this version: https://github.com/andreae293/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion-cpu

I haven't seen any optimizations on the JoePenna or gammagec forks. They are still at 24GB. NMKD mentioned possibly optimizing it more, now that it's included in that GUI. There's also a CPU-only version. I don't really understand the differences between these (which all come from XavierXiao) and the diffusers versions - is it just more optimization or are they fundamentally different?

There is a CPU-only fork: https://github.com/andreae293/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion-cpu. Needs a lot (35-40GB) of RAM. It works like the JoePenna version, not the diffusers version. I don't fully understand the differences between the two, besides that the diffusers version has been more heavily optimized for low VRAM.

if you're willing to wait for it to process you could do what i'm doing (i have a 2070 with 8gb vram) and try this one - https://github.com/andreae293/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion-cpu

This https://github.com/andreae293/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion-cpu I believe should produce as ckpt file. You're probably testing the CPU on the hugging face version.

Just found this one: https://github.com/andreae293/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion-cpu