Initium (SDXL, IllustriousXL): What is Initium?

• Built on Noobai V1.1, model designed to help "fix" some of the remaining issues on NoobAI 1.1, meant as a model for creating your own merges, ideally used as training base for merges that have this in their shared heritage.

Features:

• Custom Technology: Incorporates unique CLIP/TENC training and U-net Aligning to them.

• Dataset: Trained with a 40k image dateset, dataset wasn't solely focused on 1girl, will try to produce difference scenery, abstract and no humans, should be a bit less biased towards girls

• LoRA: LoRAs trained on Illust 0.1 might not work due to custom TENCs, go with NoobAI 1.0/1.1 or stuff trained right on this model

Usage Tips:

• Positive Prompt: masterpiece, best quality

• Negative Prompt: low quality, bad hands, greyscale, bad anatomy

• Optional Negative Prompt: signature, 4koma, multiple views, watermark, patreon logo

Styling:

• Use realistic/3d tags as needed, adjust negatives to guide the model towards your desired look.

Technical Settings:

• Sampler: Euler a

• Steps: 24-30

• CFG Scale: 5.0-8.0

• Resolution: 1024x1024 or any aspect ratio that falls within ~~1.048.576 pixels.

Model Recipe:

• Developed with bespoke CLIP/TENC settings and U-net Aligning.

Compatibility:

• Sync with Noobai v1.1 for optimal results using the attention cut in ComfyUI, guided by PotatCat.

Acknowledgments:

• Thanks to Arc En Ciel discord server, @mfcg , @FallenIncursio , @Anzhc , and others for their support!

Disclaimer for Fun: By using this model, you agree to donate one of your virtual balls to @novowels .

Emphasis mode No Norm is suggested for SDXL models

If you want to support me, consider liking the model, and/or tipping buzz/donating to my Ko-fi, as this was finetuned on 8xL40S

Relevant training information:

1. Trained with at least 40k cherrypicked images.

2. Total of about ~~1.9m real steps after batching across 50 epochs.

3. Effective batch size was 16 x 8 GPUs x 6 Gradient Accumulation

4. Learning rate was 6e-6, Clip L was 5e-7, Clip G was trained at 4e-7