# EdgeDiffusion - Distilled A pruned and distilled Stable Diffusion 1.5 UNet (647.2M params, ~25% smaller than original 858.5M). ## Pipeline 1. **Iterative Pruning**: 4 rounds of ~7% Taylor-importance pruning (858.5M → 647.2M) 2. **Knowledge Distillation**: 15K steps with Realistic Vision v5.1 as teacher (feature + noise MSE loss) ## Files | File | Description | |------|-------------| | `pruned_unet.safetensors` | Pruned + distilled UNet weights | | `pruned_unet.config.json` | Model config (contains `model_config` for rebuilding) | | `pruned_rebuild.py` | Script to rebuild the pruned UNet architecture | ## Usage ```python # 1. Download all 3 files to the same directory, then: from pruned_rebuild import create_unet_from_safetensors from diffusers import StableDiffusionPipeline import torch # 2. Rebuild the pruned UNet unet = create_unet_from_safetensors( "pruned_unet.safetensors", "pruned_unet.config.json" ) # 3. Load into a standard SD 1.5 pipeline pipe = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained( "runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5", unet=unet, torch_dtype=torch.float16, safety_checker=None, ) pipe = pipe.to("cuda") # 4. Generate image = pipe("a beautiful sunset over mountains", num_inference_steps=30).images[0] image.save("output.png") ``` ## Requirements ``` pip install diffusers transformers safetensors torch accelerate ```