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AnimeBoysZeroXL

A dedicated model for high-quality anime-style male characters. This model is specifically optimized for males-only content, offering a wide range of aesthetic styles and high versatility.

🚀 Inference Guide

• ⚠️ Important: This model uses Zero Terminal SNR with V-prediction. Please ensure you are using the correct settings during inference.

  • ComfyUI Users: Add the ModelSamplingDiscrete node into your workflow. Set sampling to v_prediction, zsnr to true.

  • Automatic1111 Users: Place the .yaml config file into the model folder. The .yaml file must have the exact same name as the model file, only with the .yaml extension instead of .safetensors. Set Noise schedule for sampling in settings to Zero Terminal SNR.

• Prompting: Always begin your prompt with a score tag (e.g. score_9). You can use any of these styles:

  • Tag soup: score_X, tag1, tag2, tag3, ...

  • Natural language: score_X, [your description here]

  • Mixed approach: score_X, [description], tag1, tag2, ...

  • Tip: If you find the style of the score tags is too strong, you could try dropping them from the prompt.

• Negative Prompt: Choose from one of these three presets depending on your needs:

  1. Minimal: score_1

  2. Light: score_1, lowres, artistic error, scan artifacts, jpeg artifacts, multiple views, too many watermarks, negative space, blank page

  3. Heavy: score_1, score_2, score_3, lowres, artistic error, film grain, scan artifacts, jpeg artifacts, chromatic aberration, dithering, halftone, screentones, multiple views, logo, too many watermarks, negative space, blank page

• CFG Scale: A CFG scale of 3 to 5 is recommended. For finer control, I suggest using dynamic thresholding.

  • Pro-tip: I set mimic_scale to match the CFG scale and set both minimum scales to the same lower value. I use Half Cosine Up for both modes.

• Resolution: To get started, try these dimensions:

  • Portrait: 832 × 1216

  • Square: 1024 × 1024

  • Landscape: 1216 × 832

  • Some other supported sizes: 768×1344, 768×1280, 896×1152, 960×1088, 1344×768, 1280×768, 1152×896, 1088×960.

🧪 Training Details

AnimeBoysZeroXL was fine-tuned from Pony Diffusion V6 XL using approximately 950k images. The knowledge cutoff is November 2025.

The following tags were used during training to help you steer the results toward your desired style.

Score tags

Each image is tagged with score_X, where X is a range from 1 to 9.

• score_9 represents the highest aesthetic quality based on my personal preferences.

Rating tags

• rating:general: general

• rating:sensitive: sensitive

• rating:questionable: questionable

• rating:explicit: explicit

Year tags

Use year YYYY (ranging from 2005 to 2025) to target specific era styles.

Training configurations

• Hardware: 4 × Nvidia A100 SXM 80GB

• Optimizer: AdaFactor

• Gradient Accumulation Steps: 8

• Effective Batch Size: 128 (4 × 8 × 4)

• Learning Rates:

  • U-Net: 2e-5

  • Text Encoders: 1e-5

• LR Schedule: Constant with 250 warmup steps

• Precision: FP16 Mixed Precision

🔄 Changes from AnimeBoysXL v3.0

• Tag Overhaul: Quality tags have been removed. The 5-category aesthetic tags have been replaced with a more granular 9-category score tag system. Renamed rating tags for better clarity. Abolished the tag ordering scheme.

• Captions: A subset of highly aesthetic images was trained using natural language prompts for better comprehension.

• Emphasis: Highly aesthetic images now have more "repeats" in the training data.

• Optimization:

  • 5% caption dropout for unconditional guidance.

  • Trained with Zero Terminal SNR and V-prediction.

  • Implemented adaptive loss weighting.

  • No multi-resolution noise or debiased estimation loss.

  • Trained with input perturbation noise (gamma=0.1).

  • Trained with huber loss.

• Merging: This model is a merge across several iterations of the same training run for better stability.

License

AnimeBoysZeroXL is a derivative model of Pony Diffusion V6 XL by PurpleSmartAI. Please read their license before using the model.