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	<span>Re-using seeds for fast prompt engineering
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<p>A common use case when generating images is to generate a batch of images, select one image and improve it with a better, more detailed prompt in a second run.
To do this, one needs to make each generated image of the batch deterministic.
Images are generated by denoising gaussian random noise which can be instantiated by passing a <a href="https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.Generator.html#generator" rel="nofollow">torch generator</a>.</p>
<p>Now, for batched generation, we need to make sure that every single generated image in the batch is tied exactly to one seed. In 🧨 Diffusers, this can be achieved by not passing one <code>generator</code>, but a list
of <code>generators</code> to the pipeline.</p>
<p>Let’s go through an example using <a href="runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5"><code>runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5</code></a>.
We want to generate several versions of the prompt:</p>

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	<pre><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->prompt = <span class="hljs-string">&quot;Labrador in the style of Vermeer&quot;</span><!-- HTML_TAG_END --></pre></div>
<p>Let’s load the pipeline</p>

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	<pre><!-- HTML_TAG_START --><span class="hljs-meta">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> diffusers <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> DiffusionPipeline

<span class="hljs-meta">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(<span class="hljs-string">&quot;runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5&quot;</span>, torch_dtype=torch.float16)
<span class="hljs-meta">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>pipe = pipe.to(<span class="hljs-string">&quot;cuda&quot;</span>)<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></pre></div>
<p>Now, let’s define 4 different generators, since we would like to reproduce a certain image. We’ll use seeds <code>0</code> to <code>3</code> to create our generators.</p>

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	<pre><!-- HTML_TAG_START --><span class="hljs-meta">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> torch

<span class="hljs-meta">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>generator = [torch.Generator(device=<span class="hljs-string">&quot;cuda&quot;</span>).manual_seed(i) <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> <span class="hljs-built_in">range</span>(<span class="hljs-number">4</span>)]<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></pre></div>
<p>Let’s generate 4 images:</p>

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	<pre><!-- HTML_TAG_START --><span class="hljs-meta">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>images = pipe(prompt, generator=generator, num_images_per_prompt=<span class="hljs-number">4</span>).images
<span class="hljs-meta">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>images<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></pre></div>
<p><img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/diffusers/diffusers-images-docs/resolve/main/reusabe_seeds.jpg" alt="img"></p>
<p>Ok, the last images has some double eyes, but the first image looks good!
Let’s try to make the prompt a bit better <strong>while keeping the first seed</strong>
so that the images are similar to the first image.</p>

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	<pre><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->prompt = [prompt + t <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> t <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> [<span class="hljs-string">&quot;, highly realistic&quot;</span>, <span class="hljs-string">&quot;, artsy&quot;</span>, <span class="hljs-string">&quot;, trending&quot;</span>, <span class="hljs-string">&quot;, colorful&quot;</span>]]
generator = [torch.Generator(device=<span class="hljs-string">&quot;cuda&quot;</span>).manual_seed(<span class="hljs-number">0</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> <span class="hljs-built_in">range</span>(<span class="hljs-number">4</span>)]<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></pre></div>
<p>We create 4 generators with seed <code>0</code>, which is the first seed we used before.</p>
<p>Let’s run the pipeline again.</p>

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<span class="hljs-meta">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>images<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></pre></div>
<p><img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/diffusers/diffusers-images-docs/resolve/main/reusabe_seeds_2.jpg" alt="img"></p>


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