<h2 id="what-is-aureframe-ixl">What is Aureframe IXL?</h2>Aureframe IXL is my attempt at a fully open recipe merged Illustrious model. Aureframe is a pure anime biased checkpoint that blends the features and capabilities of a collection of models that I love.<h2 id="what-tools-are-used-to-create-aureframe-ixl">What Tools are Used to Create Aureframe IXL?</h2>The main tool used to blend the source models is <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://github.com/Faildes/Chattiori-Model-Merger">Chattiori Model Merger</a>. The final mix is then trimmed (removing EMA and residual training junk).<h2 id="merge-recipe">Merge Recipe</h2><ol><li>DARE merge <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/2354275?modelVersionId=2647860">Comtesse Raffinée - v1.0</a> (by <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/user/Chumple">Chumple</a>) and <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/1595884?modelVersionId=1805971">Hyphoria [Illu &amp; NAI] - v0.01</a> (by <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/user/ecaj">ecaj</a>) at 0.5 alpha = Mixed_01</li><li>SIM merge <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/1411652?modelVersionId=2194637">Pohjolantaika - v1.3b</a> by (<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/user/Ongelmanratkoja">Ongelmanratkoja</a>), <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/1858963?modelVersionId=2146568">Squizoid - v3.0</a> (by <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/user/giko">giko</a>) and Mixed_01 at 0.5 alpha and 0.5 beta = Mixed_02</li><li>FWM merge Mixed_01 and Mixed_02 at 0.5 alpha = Mixed_03</li><li>TD merge <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/1412760?modelVersionId=2590517">LunarCherryMix🍒 (Illustrious) - v2.4</a> (by <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/user/A1kodesu">A1kodesu</a>), <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/1606202?modelVersionId=1988000">DanLiuWei Mix - v4.0</a> (by <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/user/Julio912">Julio912</a>) and Mixed_03 at 0.75 alpha = Mixed_04</li><li>sAD merge <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/1235303?modelVersionId=1474152">Flac's Anime Mix [IL] - v4.0</a> (by <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/user/FlacFerret">FlacFerret</a>), <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/24149?modelVersionId=1151831">Mistoon_Anime - v1.0 Illustrious</a> (by <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/user/Inzaniak">Inzaniak</a>) and <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/1121885?modelVersionId=1515090">Anillustrious - V4 + VAE</a> (by <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/user/Jedas">Jedas</a>) at 0.5 alpha and cosine (keep structure) of Anillustrious - V4 + VAE = Mixed_05</li><li>sAD merge Flac's Anime Mix [IL] - v4.0, Mistoon_Anime - v1.0 Illustrious and Anillustrious - V4 + VAE at 0.5 alpha = Mixed_06</li><li>DARE merge Mixed_05 and Mixed_06 at 0.5 alpha and 0.3 beta = Mixed_07</li><li>XDARE merge Mixed_07 and Mixed_04 at 0.5 alpha, 0.25 beta and bake in VAE <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://huggingface.co/Anzhc/Anzhcs-VAEs/blob/main/SDXL%20Anime%20VAE%20Dec-only%20B3.safetensors">SDXL_Anime_VAE_Dec-only_B3</a> = Mixed_FINAL</li></ol><h2 id="additional-info">Additional Info</h2><ul><li>CLIP skip: -2</li><li>VAE and CLIPs baked in</li><li>Practically all Schedulers and Samplers supported by Illustrious will work with Aureframe IXL</li><li>CFG: 3 to 6. Steps: 20 - 40. This is just a simple guideline, please experiment by all means</li><li>Works very well with <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/1608870/dmd2-speed-lora-sdxl-pony-illustrious?modelVersionId=1820946">DMD2 Speed Lora</a> (CFG: 1 - 1.5, Steps 8 - 12; again feel free to experiment)</li></ul>I think that's it. What are you waiting for? Go generate some cool images with Aureframe IXL and share it in the gallery!

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