---
license: creativeml-openrail-m
base_model: OnomaAIResearch/Illustrious-XL-v2.0
tags:
  - mnn
  - stable-diffusion-xl
  - text-to-image
  - illustration
  - on-device
  - quantized
  - android
---

# Illustrious-XL-v2.0 (MNN)

MNN format conversion of [OnomaAIResearch/Illustrious-XL-v2.0](https://huggingface.co/OnomaAIResearch/Illustrious-XL-v2.0),
for on-device image generation in [nezumi-ai](https://github.com/mouse0329/nezumi-ai) — a private, fully offline
AI chat app for **Android**. The MNN image-generation engine in this model is one of several
on-device inference backends used by the app.

A Windows CLI (`nezumi-ai-sd-cli`) is also provided for testing/debugging on desktop, but the
primary target platform is Android.

> **Platform note**: `nezumi-ai-sd-cli` currently builds for **Windows only** (`.exe`).
> A Linux build is planned. The Android app is the main way to use this model.

> **Requirements note**: unlike the app's general 6GB RAM minimum, **SDXL / Illustrious models
> require 8GB RAM minimum on Android** (verified by testing). This is higher than the LLM-only
> requirement due to SDXL's larger UNet and dual text encoders. 8GB+ recommended for comfortable use.

> ⚠️ **Important: use a lower CFG scale with this quantized model.** See
> [CFG scale — please read](#cfg-scale--please-read) below. The default CLI value of `--cfg 7.0`
> is tuned for the original fp16 model and is **too high for the quantized UNet here** — at
> CFG 7 you will likely get flat, oversaturated, "washed out" colors or broken line art even
> though the model itself loaded and ran correctly. Use `--cfg 4.0` to `--cfg 5.0` instead.

## Variants

| File | UNet quantization | Size | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| `Illustrious-XL-v2.0-diffusers-mnn-int4-block32.zip` | 4-bit, block size 32 | 3.01 GB | Smaller / faster, more quality loss — recommended for 8GB devices |
| `Illustrious-XL-v2.0-diffusers-mnn-int8-block128.zip` | 8-bit, block size 128 | 4.08 GB | Larger, closer to original quality — for 12GB+ devices |

Both share the same CLIP/VAE settings (see below). Both variants need the lower CFG scale
described below — this is not specific to one bit-width.

## CFG scale — please read

During testing, this quantized UNet produced badly corrupted output (flat solid-color
fills, blown-out contrast, broken line art) at the "normal" SDXL default of `cfg=7.0`,
even though every individual component (CLIP text encoders, VAE, tokenizer, the UNet
weights themselves) checked out fine in isolation. The same quantization settings applied
to a smaller/distilled SDXL UNet (SSD-1B) showed no such problem at `cfg=7.0`.

The cause: classifier-free guidance amplifies the *difference* between the conditional and
unconditional UNet predictions (`pred = uncond + cfg * (cond - uncond)`). Quantizing a large,
full-depth SDXL UNet (Illustrious keeps the full ~2.6B-parameter SDXL-Base architecture,
unlike distilled variants such as SSD-1B) introduces a small amount of per-step numerical
error. That error doesn't cancel out in the `cond - uncond` subtraction, and a high CFG
scale re-amplifies it on every step, which is what produced the corrupted output.

**Fix: lower the CFG scale.** In our tests:

| CFG scale | Result |
|---|---|
| `7.0` (CLI default) | Broken — flat colors, oversaturated, line art may survive but shading collapses |
| `5.0` | Clearly improved, still slightly flatter than reference | 
| `4.0` | Clean, detailed output (highlights, hair, fabric folds render correctly) — no quantization artifacts visible |

We recommend starting at **`--cfg 4.0`** and adjusting up toward `5.0` if you want stronger
prompt adherence and can tolerate slightly flatter shading. This applies to both the int4 and
int8 variants above. If you need the full `cfg=7.0`-style output fidelity, you would need an
unquantized (fp16) UNet export instead, which is much larger (~9-10GB) and not distributed here.

This is a property of quantizing this particular (full-size, non-distilled) SDXL UNet, not a
bug in the CLIP/VAE conversion or in the MNN runtime — both were independently verified to be
correct during debugging.

## Model Provenance

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Base model | [OnomaAIResearch/Illustrious-XL-v2.0](https://huggingface.co/OnomaAIResearch/Illustrious-XL-v2.0) |
| Format | MNN (`clip1.mnn`, `clip2.mnn`, `unet.mnn`, `vae_decoder_fp16.mnn`, tokenizers) |
| Conversion tool | [`convert_hf_to_mnn_sdxl.py`](https://github.com/mouse0329/nezumi-ai/blob/main/mnn-sd-engine/conversion/convert_hf_to_mnn_sdxl.py) (nezumi-ai) |

### Conversion settings

```bash
# int4-block32
python convert_hf_to_mnn_sdxl.py --model OnomaAIResearch/Illustrious-XL-v2.0 \
    --out ./out/int4-block32 --size 1024 --clip-skip 2 \
    --unet-bits 4 --unet-block 32 --clip-bits 8 --vae-bits 8

# int8-block128
python convert_hf_to_mnn_sdxl.py --model OnomaAIResearch/Illustrious-XL-v2.0 \
    --out ./out/int8-block128 --size 1024 --clip-skip 2 \
    --unet-bits 8 --unet-block 128 --clip-bits 8 --vae-bits 8
```

No fine-tuning or retraining was performed — weights are unchanged from the original
checkpoint aside from format conversion and the quantization above. See
[CFG scale — please read](#cfg-scale--please-read) above for the recommended sampling
settings to use with this quantized checkpoint.

## License

- **Original model license**: [CreativeML Open RAIL-M](https://huggingface.co/spaces/CompVis/stable-diffusion-license)
  — all credit for the weights and training goes to OnomaAI Research.
- **Redistribution**: 可（元モデルのライセンス上、量子化・派生物の再配布は許可されています）
- **Commercial use**: RAIL-Mの条件内で可
- **Attribution**: 要（本README内に明記）

This checkpoint inherits the original model's use-based restrictions in full
(see Attachment A of the [full license text](https://huggingface.co/spaces/CompVis/stable-diffusion-license)),
including prohibitions on use for exploiting minors, generating disinformation, harassment,
discrimination, unauthorized medical advice, and law-enforcement/immigration profiling.
On Android, note that nezumi-ai includes an `ImageSafetyChecker` (NSFW detection with
auto-block/blur), which complements — but does not replace — compliance with these restrictions.

> Note: the conversion script itself is part of the nezumi-ai project and licensed separately
> under LGPL v3 / a commercial license (see [LICENSE.md](https://github.com/mouse0329/nezumi-ai/blob/main/LICENSE.md)).
> That license applies to the *code*, not to this model checkpoint.

## Requirements (Android)

| Item | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| Android Version | 12 (API 30) | 14+ (API 34+) |
| RAM (SDXL / Illustrious) | **8GB** | 12GB+ |
| Storage | 4GB (int4) / 5GB (int8), plus space for other models | 8GB+ |
| GPU/NPU | Optional | Snapdragon / Mali / Adreno (OpenCL) |

## Usage

### Android (primary)

Used automatically by the [nezumi-ai](https://github.com/mouse0329/nezumi-ai) app's image-generation
feature (MNN backend, GPU/OpenCL → CPU fallback). Download/select this model from within the app;
manual extraction is not required on Android. **Set CFG scale to 4.0–5.0** in the generation
settings (see [CFG scale — please read](#cfg-scale--please-read) above) — the app's own default
may still assume the unquantized-model value of 7.0.

### Windows CLI (testing/debugging)

Distributed as zip archives — extract before use:

```bash
unzip Illustrious-XL-v2.0-diffusers-mnn-int8-block128.zip -d C:\sdxl-model
```

```bat
nezumi-ai-sd-cli "C:\sdxl-model" "1girl, cute, cat ears" --steps 20 --width 1024 --height 1024 --cfg 4.0 --backend cpu --out out.png
```

Note the explicit `--cfg 4.0` above — see [CFG scale — please read](#cfg-scale--please-read).

#### Options

| Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| `<model_path>` | Path to the extracted MNN model folder | — |
| `<prompt>` | Text prompt | — |
| `--negative <text>` | Negative prompt | empty |
| `--width <n>` / `--height <n>` | Image size | 512 / 512 |
| `--steps <n>` | Sampling steps | 20 |
| `--cfg <f>` | CFG scale | 7.0 (⚠️ use `4.0`–`5.0` for this model — see above) |
| `--seed <n>` | Seed (negative = random) | -1 |
| `--scheduler <name>` | `euler`\|`ddim`\|`dpm`\|`dpm++2m`\|`dpm++2m-karras`\|`lcm`\|`eulera`\|`unipc` | `dpm++2m` |
| `--backend <name>` | `cpu`\|`opencl` | `cpu` |
| `--out <path>` | `.ppm` always works; `.png` needs `stb_image_write.h` | — |

> SDXL/Illustrious系では`--width 1024 --height 1024`を推奨します（デフォルトの512は非対応解像度のため画質が崩れます）。
> また、このモデル（量子化UNet）では`--cfg 7.0`のデフォルト値は強すぎるため、`--cfg 4.0`〜`5.0`を推奨します（詳細は上記「CFG scale — please read」を参照）。

## Roadmap

- [ ] Linux build of `nezumi-ai-sd-cli`

## Disclaimer

This is an unofficial, community conversion and is not affiliated with or endorsed
by OnomaAI Research.