Version 2.0

A merge based on NoobAI-XL (epsilon-pred 0.75-version). While losing some of the creativity in posing, it is still rather close and gains stronger colors as well as improved character coherency and even gets more consistent at generating hands and other details.V2 was produced by trying several similar approaches as V1, such as adding the difference between Itercomp and SDXL to it, as well as the difference between V1 and NoobAIXL_Epsilon-pred 0.50-Version, and then merging the best versions with each other and the 0.75 version itself. I repeated this step a few times until I felt like any additional changes only worsened the outcome. I kept the 0.75 Text Encoder, with the goal of preserving the increase in characters it knows, and I feel like not only did it keep its knowledge, but stabilize it a bit as well.

The goal was again to retain the character knowledge, pose variety and general feeling of the base model, while enhancing it as much as possible, especially the colors. While I don't think I wholly succeeded in this, particularly in keeping the poses as varied as they were in 0.75, it's as close as I can get it while keeping the colors the way they are now.

Version 1.0

A stupid little merge based on NoobAI-XL (epsilon-pred 0.5-version). It is a bit worse with some artist styles, however I like the colors and feel like the coherency has been improved, so I am sharing it. I would classify it as a general sidegrade that's useful if you want more saturated colors.

To get here, I merged Noob with the perpendicular component of IterComp (https://huggingface.co/comin/IterComp), and then merged that with a blockwise merge of Artiwaifu Diffusion 2.0 and Illustrious. I kept the original NoobAI Clip and used a slightly altered VAE that I found on an anonymous mongolian basketweaving forum.