sd_dreambooth_extension VS kohya_ss

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 :/

Many of the options are explained here https://github.com/bmaltais/kohya_ss/wiki/LoRA-training-parameters

training in BF16 might solve this issue from what I saw in this ticket. I know other people ran into the issue too https://github.com/bmaltais/kohya_ss/issues/1382

for lycoris loras you can use the command-line script from the kohya-ss repo https://github.com/bmaltais/kohya_ss/blob/master/networks/merge_lora.py i have an older version checked out from late july, it had a separate merge_lycoris.py for for this purpose, it's probably unified now in a single file

I usually do that with kohya_ss, a tool made for making LoRAs and finetunes. It might be a bit of a pain to set up just to do this one task, but if nobody gives you an easier method, look into it. https://github.com/bmaltais/kohya_ss

After that, make your staging directory, and do the git clone https://github.com/bmaltais/kohya_ss.git, and navigate inside of it. Now, here's where things can become a pain. I used pyenv to set my system level python to 3.10.6 with pyenv global 3.10.6, though you can probably just use "local" and do it for the current shell. You NEED it to be active however before you set up your venv. If you do python --version and get 3.10.6, you're ready for this next part. Make your venv with python -m venv venv. This is the simplest way, it'll create a virtual environment in your current folder named venv. You'll do a source venv/bin/activate and then do which python to make sure it's using the python from the venv. Now for the fun part. The included setup scripts have been flaky for me, so I just went through the requirements and installed everything by hand. I'm going to do this guide right now for nvidia, because I just got a 4090 for this stuff. If this ends up working well for others and there's demand, I'll try to reproduce this for AMD (But I'll be honest, I got an nvidia card because bitsandbytes doesn't have full rocm support, nor do most libraries, so it's not very reliable). After installing everything and testing it works at least at a basic level for dreambooth training, my finished requirements.txt for pip is as below:

Earlier I created a post where I asked for recommendations for LoRA model training tutorials. The first one I looked at used the kohya_ss GUI. That GitHub repo already has two tutorials, which are quite good, so I ended up using those:

I have tried my best to research this issue and have not come up with much. It is obvious that its a backend issue right? The guides that I used https://github.com/bmaltais/kohya_ss and https://github.com/pyenv-win/pyenv-win/

I am training on a 12GB 3060 using kohya_ss. Is there a setting or something I'm missing?