PixArt-alpha (PixArt-α) Automatic Installer For Both Windows And RunPod With Additional Web UI Features (Patreon)

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16 January 2024 Update

• 8-bit loading error fixed
• Library versions updated

3 December 2023 Update

• Please redownload the zip file
• Now you will see lowVRAM_1024. bat file
• This will off load some parts into CPU to further reduce VRAM usage
• I was able to generate images on RTX 3060 with a little bit of shared VRAM usage
• If you have already installed the repo run update. bat file first to get latest version of app. py from our repo
• Tutorial video released : https://youtu.be/ZiUXf_idIR4?si=c966ckIS8TjEZlNg

PixArt-α: Fast Training of Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Text-to-Image Synthesis

• https://github.com/PixArt-alpha/PixArt-alpha
• https://pixart-alpha.github.io/
• PixArt-α is the true new rival of Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL)
• The quality is amazing and it is also fast
• Tutorial Video : https://youtu.be/ZiUXf_idIR4?si=c966ckIS8TjEZlNg
• Please also upvote this Reddit thread if possible

Requirements:

• Make sure that you have git and Python 3.10.x installed. I used Python 3.10.11
• Here a tutorial video : https://youtu.be/B5U7LJOvH6g
• If you encounter any network related problems during install or model download use https://1.1.1.1/ WARP VPN of Cloudflare which I am using and totally free.

How To Install And Use

• Download pixArt installer.zip and extract into any folder where you want to install
• It will generate a new venv so it will not affect your other apps such as Automatic1111 SD Web UI
• Run install.bat on Windows and after that use 1024_16bit. bat or other bat files
• For RunPod please read runpod_instructions_READ. txt file
• The running will download models into the Hugging Face cache folder

Features of Improved Gradio Web APP

• The improved Web APP Supports automatic saving of generated images into outputs folder
• A new parameter batch count which lets you to generate any arbitrary number of images with same prompt like set it 100 and it will generate 100 images
• Supports loading in 8bit, 512 pixel model and Dall E3 VAE

If you want Hugging Face to download models into another drive (not mandatory) use following prompt

• Start a new CMD as administrator
• setx HF_HOME "G:\HF_Models"
• This above command will add a variable to System Environment Variables