Controlnet - v1.1

Controlnet v1.1 is the successor model of Controlnet v1.0 and was released in lllyasviel/ControlNet-v1-1 by Lvmin Zhang.

This checkpoint is a conversion of the original checkpoint into safetensors format. It can be used in AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui and lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge

ControlNet is a neural network structure to control diffusion models by adding extra conditions.

Model Details

• Developed by: Lvmin Zhang, Maneesh Agrawala

• Model type: Diffusion-based text-to-image generation model

• Language(s): English

• License: The CreativeML OpenRAIL M license is an Open RAIL M license, adapted from the work that BigScience and the RAIL Initiative are jointly carrying in the area of responsible AI licensing. See also the article about the BLOOM Open RAIL license on which our license is based.

• Resources for more information: GitHub Repository, Paper.

• Cite as:

  @misc{zhang2023adding, title={Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models}, author={Lvmin Zhang and Maneesh Agrawala}, year={2023}, eprint={2302.05543}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.CV} }

Introduction

Controlnet was proposed in Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models by Lvmin Zhang, Maneesh Agrawala.

The abstract reads as follows:

We present a neural network structure, ControlNet, to control pretrained large diffusion models to support additional input conditions. The ControlNet learns task-specific conditions in an end-to-end way, and the learning is robust even when the training dataset is small (< 50k). Moreover, training a ControlNet is as fast as fine-tuning a diffusion model, and the model can be trained on a personal devices. Alternatively, if powerful computation clusters are available, the model can scale to large amounts (millions to billions) of data. We report that large diffusion models like Stable Diffusion can be augmented with ControlNets to enable conditional inputs like edge maps, segmentation maps, keypoints, etc. This may enrich the methods to control large diffusion models and further facilitate related applications.