Stable Diffusion Dream Script

This is a fork of CompVis/stable-diffusion, the wonderful open source text-to-image generator. The original has been improved in several ways:

Interactive command-line interface similar to the Discord bot

The dream.py script, located in scripts/dream.py, provides an interactive interface to image generation similar to the "dream mothership" bot that Stable AI provided on its Discord server. Unlike the txt2img.py and img2img.py scripts provided in the original CompViz/stable-diffusion source code repository, the time-consuming initialization of the AI model initialization only happens once. After that image generation from the command-line interface is very fast.

The script uses the readline library to allow for in-line editing, command history (up and down arrows), autocompletion, and more. To help keep track of which prompts generated which images, the script writes a log file of image names and prompts to the selected output directory. In addition, as of version 1.02, it also writes the prompt into the PNG file's metadata where it can be retrieved using scripts/images2prompt.py

The script is confirmed to work on Linux and Windows systems. It should work on MacOSX as well, but this is not confirmed. Note that this script runs from the command-line (CMD or Terminal window), and does not have a GUI.

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 ./scripts/dream.py
* Initializing, be patient...
Loading model from models/ldm/text2img-large/model.ckpt
(...more initialization messages...)

* Initialization done! Awaiting your command...
dream> ashley judd riding a camel -n2 -s150
Outputs:
   outputs/img-samples/00009.png: "ashley judd riding a camel" -n2 -s150 -S 416354203
   outputs/img-samples/00010.png: "ashley judd riding a camel" -n2 -s150 -S 1362479620

dream> "there's a fly in my soup" -n6 -g
    outputs/img-samples/00011.png: "there's a fly in my soup" -n6 -g -S 2685670268
    seeds for individual rows: [2685670268, 1216708065, 2335773498, 822223658, 714542046, 3395302430]
dream> q

# this shows how to retrieve the prompt stored in the saved image's metadata
(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 ./scripts/images2prompt.py outputs/img_samples/*.png
00009.png: "ashley judd riding a camel" -s150 -S 416354203
00010.png: "ashley judd riding a camel" -s150 -S 1362479620
00011.png: "there's a fly in my soup" -n6 -g -S 2685670268

The dream> prompt's arguments are pretty much identical to those used in the Discord bot, except you don't need to type "!dream" (it doesn't hurt if you do). A significant change is that creation of individual images is now the default unless --grid (-g) is given. For backward compatibility, the -i switch is recognized. For command-line help type -h (or --help) at the dream> prompt.

The script itself also recognizes a series of command-line switches that will change important global defaults, such as the directory for image outputs and the location of the model weight files.

Image-to-Image

This script also provides an img2img feature that lets you seed your creations with a drawing or photo. This is a really cool feature that tells stable diffusion to build the prompt on top of the image you provide, preserving the original's basic shape and layout. To use it, provide the --init_img option as shown here:

dream> "waterfall and rainbow" --init_img=./init-images/crude_drawing.png --strength=0.5 -s100 -n4

The --init_img (-I) option gives the path to the seed picture. --strength (-f) controls how much the original will be modified, ranging from 0.0 (keep the original intact), to 1.0 (ignore the original completely). The default is 0.75, and ranges from 0.25-0.75 give interesting results.

You may also pass a -v option to generate count variants on the original image. This is done by passing the first generated image back into img2img the requested number of times. It generates interesting variants.

GFPGAN Support

This script also provides the ability to invoke GFPGAN after image generation. Doing so will enhance faces and optionally upscale the image to a higher resolution.

To use the ability, clone the GFPGAN repository and follow their installation instructions. By default, we expect GFPGAN to be installed in a 'GFPGAN' sibling directory. Be sure that the "ldm" conda environment is active as you install GFPGAN.

You may also want to install Real-ESRGAN, if you want to enhance non-face regions in the image, by installing the pip Real-ESRGAN package.

pip install realesrgan

Users whose GPU machines are isolated from the Internet (e.g. on a University cluster) should be aware that the first time you run dream.py with GFPGAN turned on, it will try to download model files from the Internet. To rectify this, you may run python3 scripts/preload_models.pl after you have installed GFPGAN and all its dependencies.

Now, you can run this script by adding the --gfpgan option. Any issues with GFPGAN will be reported on initialization.

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 ./scripts/dream.py --gfpgan
* Initializing, be patient...
(...more initialization messages...)
* --gfpgan was specified, loading gfpgan...
(...even more initialization messages...)
* Initialization done! Awaiting your command...

When generating prompts, add a -G or --gfpgan_strenth option to control the strength of the GFPGAN enhancement. 0.0 is no enhancement, 1.0 is maximum enhancement.

So for instance, to apply the maximum strength:

dream> a man wearing a pineapple hat -G 1

This also works with img2img:

dream> a man wearing a pineapple hat -I path/to/your/file.png -G 1

That's it!

There's also a bunch of options to control GFPGAN settings when starting the script for different configs that you can read about in the help text. This will let you control where GFPGAN is installed, if upsampling is enabled, the upsampler to use and the model path.

By default, images will be upscaled by 2-fold, meaning that the old Stable Diffusion default size of 512x512 will now be a glorious detailed 1024x1024. The extent of upscaling is set when you run the script, and can't be changed while it's running. However, at any time you may specify -G0 to turn off upscaling and facial enhancement for that image or set of images.

Note that loading GFPGAN consumes additional GPU memory, and will add a few seconds to image generation. However, if can afford a 3090s with 24Gi, the results are well worth it.

Barebones Web Server

As of version 1.10, this distribution comes with a bare bones web server (see screenshot). To use it, run the command:

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 scripts/dream_web.py

You can then connect to the server by pointing your web browser at http://localhost:9090, or to the network name or IP address of the server.

Kudos to Tesseract Cat for contributing this code.

Reading Prompts from a File

You can automate dream.py by providing a text file with the prompts you want to run, one line per prompt. The text file must be composed with a text editor (e.g. Notepad) and not a word processor. Each line should look like what you would type at the dream> prompt:

a beautiful sunny day in the park, children playing -n4 -C10
stormy weather on a mountain top, goats grazing     -s100
innovative packaging for a squid's dinner           -S137038382

Then pass this file's name to dream.py when you invoke it:

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 scripts/dream.py --from_file="path/to/prompts.txt"

Shortcut for reusing seeds from the previous command

Since it is so common to reuse seeds while refining a prompt, there is now a shortcut as of version 1.11. Provide a -S (or --seed) switch of -1 to use the seed of the most recent image generated. If you produced multiple images with the -n switch, then you can go back further using -2, -3, etc. up to the first image generated by the previous command. Sorry, but you can't go back further than one command.

Here's an example of using this to do a quick refinement. It also illustrates using the new -G switch to turn on upscaling and face enhancement (see previous section):

dream> a cute child playing hopscotch -G0.5
[...]
outputs/img-samples/000039.3498014304.png: "a cute child playing hopscotch" -s50 -b1 -W512 -H512 -C7.5 -mk_lms -S3498014304

# I wonder what it will look like if I bump up the steps and set facial enhancement to full strength?
dream> a cute child playing hopscotch -G1.0 -s100 -S -1
reusing previous seed 3498014304
[...]
outputs/img-samples/000040.3498014304.png: "a cute child playing hopscotch" -G1.0 -s100 -b1 -W512 -H512 -C7.5 -mk_lms -S3498014304

Weighted Prompts

You may weight different sections of the prompt to tell the sampler to attach different levels of priority to them, by adding :(number) to the end of the section you wish to up- or downweight. For example consider this prompt:

    tabby cat:0.25 white duck:0.75 hybrid

This will tell the sampler to invest 25% of its effort on the tabby cat aspect of the image and 75% on the white duck aspect (surprisingly, this example actually works). The prompt weights can use any combination of integers and floating point numbers, and they do not need to add up to 1.

Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation

You may personalize the generated images to provide your own styles or objects by training a new LDM checkpoint and introducing a new vocabulary to the fixed model.

To train, prepare a folder that contains images sized at 512x512 and execute the following:

# As the default backend is not available on Windows, if you're using that platform, execute SET PL_TORCH_DISTRIBUTED_BACKEND=gloo
(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 ./main.py --base ./configs/stable-diffusion/v1-finetune.yaml \
                                            -t \
                                            --actual_resume ./models/ldm/stable-diffusion-v1/model.ckpt \
                                            -n my_cat \
                                            --gpus 0, \
                                            --data_root D:/textual-inversion/my_cat \
                                            --init_word 'cat'

During the training process, files will be created in /logs/[project][time][project]/ where you can see the process.

conditioning* contains the training prompts inputs, reconstruction the input images for the training epoch samples, samples scaled for a sample of the prompt and one with the init word provided

On a RTX3090, the process for SD will take ~1h @1.6 iterations/sec.

Note: According to the associated paper, the optimal number of images is 3-5. Your model may not converge if you use more images than that.

Training will run indefinately, but you may wish to stop it before the heat death of the universe, when you find a low loss epoch or around ~5000 iterations.

Once the model is trained, specify the trained .pt file when starting dream using

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 ./scripts/dream.py --embedding_path /path/to/embedding.pt --full_precision

Then, to utilize your subject at the dream prompt

dream> "a photo of *"

this also works with image2image

dream> "waterfall and rainbow in the style of *" --init_img=./init-images/crude_drawing.png --strength=0.5 -s100 -n4

It's also possible to train multiple tokens (modify the placeholder string in configs/stable-diffusion/v1-finetune.yaml) and combine LDM checkpoints using:

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 ./scripts/merge_embeddings.py \
                                            --manager_ckpts /path/to/first/embedding.pt /path/to/second/embedding.pt [...] \
                                            --output_path /path/to/output/embedding.pt

Credit goes to @rinongal and the repository located at https://github.com/rinongal/textual_inversion Please see the repository and associated paper for details and limitations.

Changes

• v1.11 (26 August 2022)

  • NEW FEATURE: Support upscaling and face enhancement using the GFPGAN module. (kudos to Oceanswave
  • You now can specify a seed of -1 to use the previous image's seed, -2 to use the seed for the image generated before that, etc. Seed memory only extends back to the previous command, but will work on all images generated with the -n# switch.
  • Variant generation support temporarily disabled pending more general solution.
  • Created a feature branch named yunsaki-morphing-dream which adds experimental support for iteratively modifying the prompt and its parameters. Please see Pull Request #86 for a synopsis of how this works. Note that when this feature is eventually added to the main branch, it will may be modified significantly.

• v1.10 (25 August 2022)

  • A barebones but fully functional interactive web server for online generation of txt2img and img2img.

• v1.09 (24 August 2022)

  • A new -v option allows you to generate multiple variants of an initial image in img2img mode. (kudos to Oceanswave. See this discussion in the PR for examples and details on use)
  • Added ability to personalize text to image generation (kudos to Oceanswave and nicolai256)
  • Enabled all of the samplers from k_diffusion

• v1.08 (24 August 2022)

  • Escape single quotes on the dream> command before trying to parse. This avoids parse errors.
  • Removed instruction to get Python3.8 as first step in Windows install. Anaconda3 does it for you.
  • Added bounds checks for numeric arguments that could cause crashes.
  • Cleaned up the copyright and license agreement files.

• v1.07 (23 August 2022)

  • Image filenames will now never fill gaps in the sequence, but will be assigned the next higher name in the chosen directory. This ensures that the alphabetic and chronological sort orders are the same.

• v1.06 (23 August 2022)

  • Added weighted prompt support contributed by xraxra
  • Example of using weighted prompts to tweak a demonic figure contributed by bmaltais

• v1.05 (22 August 2022 - after the drop)

  • Filenames now use the following formats: 000010.95183149.png -- Two files produced by the same command (e.g. -n2), 000010.26742632.png -- distinguished by a different seed.

    000011.455191342.01.png -- Two files produced by the same command using 000011.455191342.02.png -- a batch size>1 (e.g. -b2). They have the same seed.

    000011.4160627868.grid#1-4.png -- a grid of four images (-g); the whole grid can be regenerated with the indicated key

  • It should no longer be possible for one image to overwrite another

  • You can use the "cd" and "pwd" commands at the dream> prompt to set and retrieve the path of the output directory.

• v1.04 (22 August 2022 - after the drop)

  • Updated README to reflect installation of the released weights.
  • Suppressed very noisy and inconsequential warning when loading the frozen CLIP tokenizer.

• v1.03 (22 August 2022)

  • The original txt2img and img2img scripts from the CompViz repository have been moved into a subfolder named "orig_scripts", to reduce confusion.

• v1.02 (21 August 2022)

  • A copy of the prompt and all of its switches and options is now stored in the corresponding image in a tEXt metadata field named "Dream". You can read the prompt using scripts/images2prompt.py, or an image editor that allows you to explore the full metadata. Please run "conda env update -f environment.yaml" to load the k_lms dependencies!!

• v1.01 (21 August 2022)

  • added k_lms sampling. Please run "conda env update -f environment.yaml" to load the k_lms dependencies!!
  • use half precision arithmetic by default, resulting in faster execution and lower memory requirements Pass argument --full_precision to dream.py to get slower but more accurate image generation

Installation

There are separate installation walkthroughs for Linux/Mac and Windows.

Linux/Mac

1. You will need to install the following prerequisites if they are not already available. Use your operating system's preferred installer

• Python (version 3.8.5 recommended; higher may work)
• git

2. Install the Python Anaconda environment manager using pip3.

~$ pip3 install anaconda

After installing anaconda, you should log out of your system and log back in. If the installation worked, your command prompt will be prefixed by the name of the current anaconda environment, "(base)".

3. Copy the stable-diffusion source code from GitHub:

(base) ~$ git clone https://github.com/lstein/stable-diffusion.git

This will create stable-diffusion folder where you will follow the rest of the steps.

4. Enter the newly-created stable-diffusion folder. From this step forward make sure that you are working in the stable-diffusion directory!

(base) ~$ cd stable-diffusion
(base) ~/stable-diffusion$

5. Use anaconda to copy necessary python packages, create a new python environment named "ldm", and activate the environment.

(base) ~/stable-diffusion$ conda env create -f environment.yaml
(base) ~/stable-diffusion$ conda activate ldm
(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$

After these steps, your command prompt will be prefixed by "(ldm)" as shown above.

6. Load a couple of small machine-learning models required by stable diffusion:

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 scripts/preload_models.py

Note that this step is necessary because I modified the original just-in-time model loading scheme to allow the script to work on GPU machines that are not internet connected. See Workaround for machines with limited internet connectivity

7. Now you need to install the weights for the stable diffusion model.

For running with the released weights, you will first need to set up an acount with Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co). Use your credentials to log in, and then point your browser at https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v-1-4-original. You may be asked to sign a license agreement at this point.

Click on "Files and versions" near the top of the page, and then click on the file named "sd-v1-4.ckpt". You'll be taken to a page that prompts you to click the "download" link. Save the file somewhere safe on your local machine.

Now run the following commands from within the stable-diffusion directory. This will create a symbolic link from the stable-diffusion model.ckpt file, to the true location of the sd-v1-4.ckpt file.

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ mkdir -p models/ldm/stable-diffusion-v1
(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ ln -sf /path/to/sd-v1-4.ckpt models/ldm/stable-diffusion-v1/model.ckpt

8. Start generating images!

# for the pre-release weights use the -l or --liaon400m switch
(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 scripts/dream.py -l

# for the post-release weights do not use the switch
(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 scripts/dream.py

# for additional configuration switches and arguments, use -h or --help
(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 scripts/dream.py -h

9. Subsequently, to relaunch the script, be sure to run "conda activate ldm" (step 5, second command), enter the "stable-diffusion" directory, and then launch the dream script (step 8). If you forget to activate the ldm environment, the script will fail with multiple ModuleNotFound errors.

Updating to newer versions of the script

This distribution is changing rapidly. If you used the "git clone" method (step 5) to download the stable-diffusion directory, then to update to the latest and greatest version, launch the Anaconda window, enter "stable-diffusion", and type:

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ git pull

This will bring your local copy into sync with the remote one.

Windows

1. Install Anaconda3 (miniconda3 version) from here: https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/windows/

2. Install Git from here: https://git-scm.com/download/win

3. Launch Anaconda from the Windows Start menu. This will bring up a command window. Type all the remaining commands in this window.

4. Run the command:

git clone https://github.com/lstein/stable-diffusion.git

This will create stable-diffusion folder where you will follow the rest of the steps.

5. Enter the newly-created stable-diffusion folder. From this step forward make sure that you are working in the stable-diffusion directory!

cd stable-diffusion

6. Run the following two commands:

conda env create -f environment.yaml    (step 6a)
conda activate ldm                      (step 6b)

This will install all python requirements and activate the "ldm" environment which sets PATH and other environment variables properly.

7. Run the command:

python scripts\preload_models.py

This installs several machine learning models that stable diffusion requires. (Note that this step is required. I created it because some people are using GPU systems that are behind a firewall and the models can't be downloaded just-in-time)

8. Now you need to install the weights for the big stable diffusion model.

For running with the released weights, you will first need to set up an acount with Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co). Use your credentials to log in, and then point your browser at https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v-1-4-original. You may be asked to sign a license agreement at this point.

Click on "Files and versions" near the top of the page, and then click on the file named "sd-v1-4.ckpt". You'll be taken to a page that prompts you to click the "download" link. Now save the file somewhere safe on your local machine. The weight file is >4 GB in size, so downloading may take a while.

Now run the following commands from within the stable-diffusion directory to copy the weights file to the right place:

mkdir -p models\ldm\stable-diffusion-v1
copy C:\path\to\sd-v1-4.ckpt models\ldm\stable-diffusion-v1\model.ckpt

Please replace "C:\path\to\sd-v1.4.ckpt" with the correct path to wherever you stashed this file. If you prefer not to copy or move the .ckpt file, you may instead create a shortcut to it from within "models\ldm\stable-diffusion-v1".

9. Start generating images!

# for the pre-release weights
python scripts\dream.py -l

# for the post-release weights
python scripts\dream.py

10. Subsequently, to relaunch the script, first activate the Anaconda command window (step 3), enter the stable-diffusion directory (step 5, "cd \path\to\stable-diffusion"), run "conda activate ldm" (step 6b), and then launch the dream script (step 9).

Updating to newer versions of the script

This distribution is changing rapidly. If you used the "git clone" method (step 5) to download the stable-diffusion directory, then to update to the latest and greatest version, launch the Anaconda window, enter "stable-diffusion", and type:

git pull

This will bring your local copy into sync with the remote one.

Simplified API for text to image generation

For programmers who wish to incorporate stable-diffusion into other products, this repository includes a simplified API for text to image generation, which lets you create images from a prompt in just three lines of code:

from ldm.simplet2i import T2I
model   = T2I()
outputs = model.txt2img("a unicorn in manhattan")

Outputs is a list of lists in the format [[filename1,seed1],[filename2,seed2]...] Please see ldm/simplet2i.py for more information.

Workaround for machines with limited internet connectivity

My development machine is a GPU node in a high-performance compute cluster which has no connection to the internet. During model initialization, stable-diffusion tries to download the Bert tokenizer and a file needed by the kornia library. This obviously didn't work for me.

To work around this, I have modified ldm/modules/encoders/modules.py to look for locally cached Bert files rather than attempting to download them. For this to work, you must run "scripts/preload_models.py" once from an internet-connected machine prior to running the code on an isolated one. This assumes that both machines share a common network-mounted filesystem with a common .cache directory.

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 ./scripts/preload_models.py
preloading bert tokenizer...
Downloading: 100%|██████████████████████████████████| 28.0/28.0 [00:00<00:00, 49.3kB/s]
Downloading: 100%|██████████████████████████████████| 226k/226k [00:00<00:00, 2.79MB/s]
Downloading: 100%|██████████████████████████████████| 455k/455k [00:00<00:00, 4.36MB/s]
Downloading: 100%|██████████████████████████████████| 570/570 [00:00<00:00, 477kB/s]
...success
preloading kornia requirements...
Downloading: "https://github.com/DagnyT/hardnet/raw/master/pretrained/train_liberty_with_aug/checkpoint_liberty_with_aug.pth" to /u/lstein/.cache/torch/hub/checkpoints/checkpoint_liberty_with_aug.pth
100%|███████████████████████████████████████████████| 5.10M/5.10M [00:00<00:00, 101MB/s]
...success

If you don't need this change and want to download the files just in time, copy over the file ldm/modules/encoders/modules.py from the CompVis/stable-diffusion repository. Or you can run preload_models.py on the target machine.

Support

For support, please use this repository's GitHub Issues tracking service. Feel free to send me an email if you use and like the script.

Original Author: Lincoln D. Stein lincoln.stein@gmail.com

Contributions by: Peter Kowalczyk, Henry Harrison, xraxra, bmaltais, Sean McLellan, nicolai256, Benjamin Warner, tildebyte, and Tesseract Cat

Original portions of the software are Copyright (c) 2020 Lincoln D. Stein (https://github.com/lstein)

#Further Reading

Please see the original README for more information on this software and underlying algorithm, located in the file README-CompViz.md.