🤗 Diffusers is the go-to library for state-of-the-art pretrained diffusion models for generating images, audio, and even 3D structures of molecules. Whether you're looking for a simple inference solution or training your own diffusion models, 🤗 Diffusers is a modular toolbox that supports both. Our library is designed with a focus on usability over performance, simple over easy, and customizability over abstractions.

🤗 Diffusers offers three core components:

• State-of-the-art diffusion pipelines that can be run in inference with just a few lines of code.
• Interchangeable noise schedulers for different diffusion speeds and output quality.
• Pretrained models that can be used as building blocks, and combined with schedulers, for creating your own end-to-end diffusion systems.

Installation

We recommend installing 🤗 Diffusers in a virtual environment from PyPI or Conda. For more details about installing PyTorch, please refer to their official documentation.

PyTorch

With pip (official package):

pip install --upgrade diffusers[torch]

With conda (maintained by the community):

conda install -c conda-forge diffusers

Apple Silicon (M1/M2) support

Please refer to the How to use Stable Diffusion in Apple Silicon guide.

Quickstart

Generating outputs is super easy with 🤗 Diffusers. To generate an image from text, use the from_pretrained method to load any pretrained diffusion model (browse the Hub for 30,000+ checkpoints):

from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline
import torch

pipeline = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("stable-diffusion-v1-5/stable-diffusion-v1-5", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipeline.to("cuda")
pipeline("An image of a squirrel in Picasso style").images[0]

You can also dig into the models and schedulers toolbox to build your own diffusion system:

from diffusers import DDPMScheduler, UNet2DModel
from PIL import Image
import torch

scheduler = DDPMScheduler.from_pretrained("google/ddpm-cat-256")
model = UNet2DModel.from_pretrained("google/ddpm-cat-256").to("cuda")
scheduler.set_timesteps(50)

sample_size = model.config.sample_size
noise = torch.randn((1, 3, sample_size, sample_size), device="cuda")
input = noise

for t in scheduler.timesteps:
    with torch.no_grad():
        noisy_residual = model(input, t).sample
        prev_noisy_sample = scheduler.step(noisy_residual, t, input).prev_sample
        input = prev_noisy_sample

image = (input / 2 + 0.5).clamp(0, 1)
image = image.cpu().permute(0, 2, 3, 1).numpy()[0]
image = Image.fromarray((image * 255).round().astype("uint8"))
image

Check out the Quickstart to launch your diffusion journey today!

How to navigate the documentation

Documentation	What can I learn?
Tutorial	A basic crash course for learning how to use the library's most important features like using models and schedulers to build your own diffusion system, and training your own diffusion model.
Loading	Guides for how to load and configure all the components (pipelines, models, and schedulers) of the library, as well as how to use different schedulers.
Pipelines for inference	Guides for how to use pipelines for different inference tasks, batched generation, controlling generated outputs and randomness, and how to contribute a pipeline to the library.
Optimization	Guides for how to optimize your diffusion model to run faster and consume less memory.
Training	Guides for how to train a diffusion model for different tasks with different training techniques.

Contribution

We ❤️ contributions from the open-source community! If you want to contribute to this library, please check out our Contribution guide. If you are using an AI agent, please point it at the project conventions in .ai/ first (run make claude or make codex) — see Coding with AI agents. You can look out for issues you'd like to tackle to contribute to the library.

• See Good first issues for general opportunities to contribute
• See New model/pipeline to contribute exciting new diffusion models / diffusion pipelines
• See New scheduler

Also, say 👋 in our public Discord channel . We discuss the hottest trends about diffusion models, help each other with contributions, personal projects or just hang out ☕.

Popular Tasks & Pipelines

Task	Pipeline	🤗 Hub
Unconditional Image Generation	DDPM	google/ddpm-ema-church-256
Text-to-Image	Stable Diffusion Text-to-Image	stable-diffusion-v1-5/stable-diffusion-v1-5
Text-to-Image	unCLIP	kakaobrain/karlo-v1-alpha
Text-to-Image	DeepFloyd IF	DeepFloyd/IF-I-XL-v1.0
Text-to-Image	Kandinsky	kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-2-decoder
Text-guided Image-to-Image	ControlNet	lllyasviel/sd-controlnet-canny
Text-guided Image-to-Image	InstructPix2Pix	timbrooks/instruct-pix2pix
Text-guided Image-to-Image	Stable Diffusion Image-to-Image	stable-diffusion-v1-5/stable-diffusion-v1-5
Text-guided Image Inpainting	Stable Diffusion Inpainting	stable-diffusion-v1-5/stable-diffusion-inpainting
Image Variation	Stable Diffusion Image Variation	lambdalabs/sd-image-variations-diffusers
Super Resolution	Stable Diffusion Upscale	stabilityai/stable-diffusion-x4-upscaler
Super Resolution	Stable Diffusion Latent Upscale	stabilityai/sd-x2-latent-upscaler

Popular libraries using 🧨 Diffusers

• https://github.com/microsoft/TaskMatrix
• https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI
• https://github.com/InstantID/InstantID
• https://github.com/apple/ml-stable-diffusion
• https://github.com/Sanster/lama-cleaner
• https://github.com/IDEA-Research/Grounded-Segment-Anything
• https://github.com/ashawkey/stable-dreamfusion
• https://github.com/deep-floyd/IF
• https://github.com/bentoml/BentoML
• https://github.com/bmaltais/kohya_ss
• +14,000 other amazing GitHub repositories 💪

Thank you for using us ❤️.

Credits

This library concretizes previous work by many different authors and would not have been possible without their great research and implementations. We'd like to thank, in particular, the following implementations which have helped us in our development and without which the API could not have been as polished today:

• @CompVis' latent diffusion models library, available here
• @hojonathanho original DDPM implementation, available here as well as the extremely useful translation into PyTorch by @pesser, available here
• @ermongroup's DDIM implementation, available here
• @yang-song's Score-VE and Score-VP implementations, available here

We also want to thank @heejkoo for the very helpful overview of papers, code and resources on diffusion models, available here as well as @crowsonkb and @rromb for useful discussions and insights.

Citation

@misc{von-platen-etal-2022-diffusers,
  author = {Patrick von Platen and Suraj Patil and Anton Lozhkov and Pedro Cuenca and Nathan Lambert and Kashif Rasul and Mishig Davaadorj and Dhruv Nair and Sayak Paul and William Berman and Yiyi Xu and Steven Liu and Thomas Wolf},
  title = {Diffusers: State-of-the-art diffusion models},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers}}
}