accelerate VS stable-diffusion-webui

accelerate is a best-in-class lib for deploying models, especially across multi-gpu and multi-node.

In the coming days, we'll work on sharing scripts to train models, optimizations for on-device inference, even nicer demos (and for more powerful models), and more. Feel free to like our GitHub repos (transformers, peft, accelerate). Enjoy!

So I rent a cloud server today to try out some of the recent LLMs like falcon and vicuna. I started with huggingface's generate API using accelerate. It got about 2 instances/s with 8 A100 40GB GPUs which I think is a bit slow. I was using batch size = 1 since I do not know how to do multi-batch inference using the .generate API. I did torch.compile + bf16 already. Do we have an even faster multi-gpu inference framework? I have 8 GPUs so I was thinking about MUCH faster speed like ~10 or 20 instances per second (or is it possible at all? I am pretty new to this field).

Looking through https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/tree/main/src/accelerate/utils/ I think it might be feasible, but will require some modifications to:

As /u/RabbitHole32 already mentioned, the speed increase stems from a patch which modifies, how a certain, large tensor is distributed between the GPU's. The patch was created by /u/emvw7yf. Here you can find the respective GitHub issue: https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/issues/1394

::pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate

pip install controlnet_aux pip install diffusers transformers git+https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate.git

Try to use both GPUs with this one: https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate https://huggingface.co/docs/accelerate/usage_guides/big_modeling https://huggingface.co/blog/accelerate-large-models Maybe it will help (the last link is clearer IMHO).

I read through this page on accelerate, but it's not clear to me how the arguments such as instance_prompt gets passed in.

To activate it you have to uncomment webui-user.sh line 44 and adding set ACCELERATE="True" to webui-user.bat. It seems to use huggingface/accelerate (Microsoft DeepSpeed, ZeRO paper) ACCELERATE

* LLaVA model: I'll add more documentation. You are right Llava could not generate images. For image generation I don't have immediate plans, but checkout these projects for local image generation.

- https://diffusionbee.com/

- https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI

- https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

I would love to be able to have a native stable diffusion experience, my rx 580 takes 30s to generate a single image. But it does work after following https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki...

I got this up and running on my windows machine in short order and I don't even know what stable diffusion is.

But again, it would be nice to have first class support to locally participate in the fun.

In Auto1111, that just uses Image.blend. :)

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/blob...

I used SDXL in automatic1111 webui for both images. Now that I think about it, the procedure I described was how I made this one, but the one that looks like an illustration was done in two steps. I used the canny ControlNet as I said for the outer part of the logo to preserve the shape of the fonts, but I had to turn it off for the boot to give SDXL leeway to add detail and make it look more like a boot.

That said, please do learn coding and don't get discouraged when somebody says to learn PyTorch or recommends using a Jupiter notebook with no further information on how to translate the skill into images. I would highly recommend some short term goals. Get your feet wet by taking apart the UIs. The comfy API documentation is here and the A1111 API documentation is here. There is a difference in completeness, welcome to programming. Writing nodes or plugins is also a good way to jump into this world. Custom wildcard logic might be very attractive to you if you aren't the type that want to deal with a nested file structure to simulate logic.

Possibly Unprompted? https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/discussions/8094

version: v1.6.1  •  python: 3.10.13  •  torch: 2.0.1+cu118  •  xformers: 0.0.20  •  gradio: 3.41.2  •  checkpoint: 6e8d4871f8