sd_dreambooth_extension VS kohya-trainer

I am trying to use StableDiffusion via AUTOMATIC1111 with the Dreambooth extension

When I first attempted SD training, I was very frustrated. It wasn't until I found this obscure forum thread on Github that I actually started producing great results with Dreambooth. Because I have such satisfactory results, I'm very reluctant to beat my brains against LoRa and its related training techniques. I gave up trying to train TI embeddings a long time ago. And I never figured out how to train or how to use hypernetworks. I've only been able to get good results with Dreambooth directly because of that thread I linked above. I make LoRas by extracting them from Dreambooth-trained checkpoints. And I have no idea if I'm doing the extractions the right way or not.

Getting the same with automatic1111 and sd_dreambooth extension. Check out more here in the issues log: https://github.com/d8ahazard/sd_dreambooth_extension/issues/1266

It's several moths old and many things have changed. But the spreadsheet available through this thread on Github has been indispensable for me when I train Dreambooth models. I'm astounded no one talks about it. I bring it up all the time. The research presented there should be continued. I'd love to see similar research done for SD v2.1.

Training rate is paramount. Read this Github thread.

https://github.com/d8ahazard/sd_dreambooth_extension/discussions/547/ (in depth training principles understanding)

sd_dreambooth_extension https://github.com/d8ahazard/sd_dreambooth_extension.git main 926ae204 Fri Mar 31 15:12:45 2023 unknown

also the Dreambooth extension supports API (https://github.com/d8ahazard/sd_dreambooth_extension/blob/main/scripts/api.py) so i'm not sure where do you get those news :/

This longer colab notebook: I did use this one (or one of the slight derivatives of it) and got out a safetensors file, but the lora didn't work at all--I'd use it a increase it's weight but I just would see no effect

It isn't what you are asking for (sry) but I struggled with this thing for way too long until I found out about the Kohya Trainer. https://github.com/Linaqruf/kohya-trainer So much easier with a lot of videos by the various YT folks. Standalone WebUI that just works. Life is good here!

It's seem that he is stable diffusion model creators. In that space, it's less knowing about the code and more experimenting on what would happen in the training. The stable diffusion community has repertoire of fine-tuning tools that is accessible for someone who have no single idea on the code behind it, no different than using application like kohya.

Have you tried out one of the colabs from https://github.com/Linaqruf/kohya-trainer ? The colabs themselves are pretty long, but you just have to read each step and then usually push the button to run that cell, then move on to the next one.

** https: //github.com/linaqruf/kohya-trainer**

There are a lot of variables that affect what kind of settings to use, but afaik the best solution to finding the right step count for what your training is still just to save multiple epochs and then run a x/y/z plot comparison. If you can't do that locally because of your 4gb card, you could try using Lora colabs that include inference capabilities.

You seem to be a little confused. You wont find an ipynb of a model. You would reference a model via a content portal like hugginface. If your model is hosted there, you dont have to download it to your computer or gdrive first. You just reference it with the hugginface-style reference, ie runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5. Some colabs will let you also reference a URL to pull down the model. Example. https://github.com/Linaqruf/kohya-trainer/blob/main/kohya-LoRA-dreambooth.ipynb. In that case, you can get the direct url to a checkpoint, for example at civit.ai. If you're decent at messing around with code, you can deconstruct that code block to use in a different colab. As for gdrive, it's only a couple dollars to get 100G.

Try this colab to train Lora, it can generate image without the UI too